![]() ![]() When war broke out in September 1939, the head of Citroen really did then order that all the prototypes be scrapped so that the German army - or rather the spies for Citroen's rivals - couldn't steal them. It turned out that, like the car Angelo helps create in my story, the original 2CV was designed to be a revolutionary new vehicle: a car for the ordinary French worker. When I saw the newspaper photo of these cars being winched out of the barn, I was immediately fascinated by how they had come to be there. It was called the "Deux Chevaux", or simply 2CV for short. ![]() High up in the hayloft were three of the earliest prototypes for a car that had become a legend in France and around the world. ![]() On a snowy winter's day in 1995, something very special was found hidden in a barn in the French countryside not far from Paris something that had been kept a secret from the world for nearly fifty years. ![]()
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