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Meet CCofNA Member Ben Boyle From Kingston, MI. and His Citroëns
January 8, 2009 by Denis
Citroën Club of North America has added a Meet the Members category to the blog so the community can get to know one another. We’d like to feature someone each week, so if you’d like to be on the blog and share your bio and some pictures, please send them to citroenclubofnorthamerica@gmail.com and we will post asap. Get to know your Citroën friends and share your story.
Meet A Member
Take it away Ben and thanks for sharing.
I first got into Citroens a little over 5 years ago when, after finishing the restoration of my Volkswagen Beetle , I decided I wanted to something else. After a few months of poking around I stumbled across a 1986 2CV in Atlanta that had just come across the pond from Germany. I bought the car because I have always wanted one. I had planned to restore it slowly like I did the Beetle . In the years since I have had the frame replaced, the engine rebuilt, and the wiring replaced. The car is now a very reliable car that I drive frequently in the warmer months and drive thousands of miles a year attending events such as the Rendezvous .
I plan on getting the bodywork of the 2CV done in the coming years and I am aware that this will be a somewhat drawn out process. I am also aware that when the car is restored I will no longer be able to drive it with as little discretion as I do now in order to maintain the appearance it will have attained.
So, to that end, I have purchased my new “beater”. This is my 1979 Dyane that is right hand drive that I purchased in England for a whopping $600 and was able to jump a ride in a container that a friend of mine was shipping. I then was able to get some help and obtain a used frame to put underneath it. So, I have a ramshackle Dyane that is pretty rough but functional in all the right places!
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