The Style of Flaminio Bertoni at Carlisle, PA. Meet…

November 10, 2008 by Denis

Once again we had a real treat at the annual Citroen Club of North America meeting, which every year just happens to coincide with the Carlisle Import Kit/Replicar National Car Show . The year’s featured speaker for the club was Kim Walter and was it ever a treat!

Kim is a very accomplished Industrial Art and Design professor at the Pratt Institute in New York . One of Kim’s passions is the wonderful designs of Flaminio Bertoni . Kim gave a very informative talk on several of the designs that Bertoni was responsible for when he worked at Citroën . They included the Traction Avant , the Ami 6 , the 2CV and the DS . You can find more about Kim on the Drive She Said! website.

For me, working on these beauties, I was always drawn to the cars for their many technical innovations and unique systems. This talk that Kim gave was so refreshing, for he pointed out some of the many lines and esthetic functions of the cars and how Bertoni arrived at them. Some of the lines that he pointed out on the Traction Avant I had never noticed, yet I have owned one for the last 21 years!

Check out some of these beauties… The first is Kim’s own D Model .

Kim Walters’ D Model

Here is a beautiful Ami 6 that shared Best of Show…

Amie

And a sweet little 2CV …

2CV

Check out the curves on this beauty…

Traction

All together 43 Citroëns from the East Coast and the Mid West attended the meet, and I personally want to thank club member Brad Nauss, of Brad Nauss Automotive , for once again doing all the behind the scenes work to make this great meet not only happen, but get better each and every year. Here’s a shot of Brad and his Traction .

Brad Nauss and his award winning Traction