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◊ 2011-07-05 22:20 |
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◊ 2011-07-05 22:42 |
Model year 1974 by the green colour (even though it looks a bit too pale, there was no green on earlier models with these taillights. |
◊ 2011-07-06 00:08 |
I think 1971 for the colour as seen (vert palmerien). Even the tail lights match. DynaMike was perhaps thinking about a '75 in "Bamboo", a bit darker shade. -- Last edit: 2011-07-06 00:08:56 |
◊ 2011-07-06 00:19 |
No, I was thinking of vert Palmeraie (AC 529), introduced in September 1974 according to http://users.skynet.be/vincent.beyaert/V2004/default.htm (->le nuancier illustré). |
◊ 2011-07-06 00:27 |
I was meaning the same colour but my French is terrible... Anyway I am pretty sure the colour is quite older since in early 1970 one of my best friend's mother bought a Dyane 6 in that colour in which I spent a lot of fun time. It was a very rare colour in Italy. The last Dyane I saw in that colour was in Paris in the 80's... |
◊ 2011-07-06 00:52 |
I was a bit surprised by that date as well and I checked my books. This colour came in September 1972, with specific upholstery, psychedelic yellow and green triangles... I guess we have found a (rare!) mistake in that site... I remember the surprise of the colour and the upholstery... -- Last edit: 2011-07-06 00:53:18 |
◊ 2011-07-06 09:02 |
There is another chance in which both are right: this colour could have been introduced for '70, then deleted for '72 and reintroduced again for '73. It looks funny but it isn't. I know almost perfectly Fiat colours and did occasionally happen. For instance a certain Fiat dark green available only on a little sports car (the 850 spider) was deleted after six yers of life during 1971, but in the autumn of 1972 was reintroduced on another car (the 132). This is only one of the many examples. Why culd this not happen on Citroens. Otherwise for '70 there was another green very similar in aspect but a bit different, or the same with a different name (even this happen. on Fiats some colours have changed name in their life). |