Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

This:

Back in the day, when we were free men. Was walking across the road in Lyon, on a gloriously summers day, and the first car that had stopped was a Citroen Ami 8* convertible with the most beautiful girl driving it. My jaw must have dropped, then beamed a smile because she gave me a little wave. I nearly fainted, I was 58.

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• or 6, don't know the difference
  

Ah yes, the original Ami with the Ford Anglia-style reverse slope rear screen! I had the Ami Super with the 1015cc flat-four, as fitted to the first-series GS. Bejazus was it noisy or what? But that engine would spin and spin. On a long downhill pitch with the wind behind, accelerator pedal pressed to the floor, the speedo would show near enough 100mph. On 145 Michelin ZX tyres...