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Citroen Traction Avant 11 BL – 1955
Car in concours condition, restored 30 years ago and still excellently preserved, interior in perfect condition as per origin, original 1.9 cc engine, excellent mechanics, ASI approved with GOLD plate, registered in Italy in 1993 and sole owner, Italian documents ready for export
The Citroën Traction Avant is the world's first monocoque-bodied, front-wheel drive, mass-production car. A range of mostly 4-door saloons and executive cars, as well as longer wheelbased "Commerciale", and three row seating "Familiale" models, were produced with four- and six-cylinder engines, by French carmaker Citroën from 1934 to 1957. Whilst front-wheel drive and four-wheel independent suspension had been established in production cars by Auto Union,[citation needed] and subsequently by others a few years prior – the Traction Avant pioneered integrating these into a mass-production car with a crash resistant, largely unitary, monocoque body. Additionally, the car was also an early adopter of rack and pinion steering. Although the car's name emphasized its front-wheel drive power delivery ("Traction Avant" literally means "front traction"), the car stood out at least as much by its much lower profile and stance – made possible by the absence of a separate vehicle frame or chassis under the car's mostly unitary body – sharply distinguishing it visually from its taller contemporaries. The Traction Avant, French for front-wheel drive, was designed by André Lefèbvre and Flaminio Bertoni in late 1933 / early 1934. The original model was a small saloon with a 2,910 mm (115 in) wheelbase, and a 1,303 cc (79.5 cu in) engine:from a 72 × 80 mm bore and stroke, this model was called the 7A. All the models have front suicide doors with rear conventional doors.[10] After just 2 months, with about 7,000 cars produced, the 7A was succeeded in June 1934 by the 7B which used a higher-power engine with its cylinders bored out by 6 mm to arrive at its limit of 78 mm of bore for 1,529 cc (93.3 cu in) and provided two windscreen wipers in place of the single wiper on the original production cars.[10] The manufacturer also took the opportunity to make a start on addressing some of the other initial "under the skin" teething problems. By September 1934, 15,620[10] 7Bs had been produced before it, in turn, was succeeded in October 1934 by the 7C with an even higher-output 1,628 cc (99.3 cu in) from a 72 × 100 mm bore and stroke engine. Later models were the 11CV (launched in November 1934), which had a 78 × 100 mm bore and stroke of 1,911 cc (116.6 cu in) four-cylinder engine, and the 15/6 (launched June 1938[12][13]), with a 2,867 cc (175.0 cu in) six. The 11 was an 11 CV, but curiously the 15/6 was in the 16 CV tax band. The 11 was built in two versions, the 11BL (Légèr, or "light"), which was the same size as the 7 CV, and the 11B (Normale, or "normal"), which had a longer wheelbase and wider track.
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