{"id":4363,"date":"2025-12-11T21:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4363"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:48:33","slug":"1951-citroen-11bl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4363","title":{"rendered":"1951 Citroen 11BL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00002.jpg 712w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00002-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 2001 I bought this rather shabby French built Traction Avant to prepare it for a 2CV &#8220;Raid&#8221; to the outback. I never liked the baby poo brown but here it is in 2025 with the same paint however it did undergo an engine and gearbox transplant from a Citroen ID19 this transforms the car giving it a 4 speed gearbox and an alloy crossflow head on what is essentially the same engine block. The 155 x 400 Michelin X tyres were replaced with something more robust for the bush tracks, it has a 123 Ignition and cruise control for when I drove it to Perth. Otherwise it is as I bought it nearly 25 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my favourite car and I&#8217;ve had a lot of cars, I may even paint it one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00003.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00003-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00004.jpg 776w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00004-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00004-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"797\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00005.jpg 797w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00005-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Image00005-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2001 I bought this rather shabby French built Traction Avant to prepare it for a 2CV &#8220;Raid&#8221; to the outback. I never liked the baby poo brown but here it is in 2025 with the same paint however &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=4363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4363","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4363\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}