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First of all: My name is Mike and since September 2001 I own a yellow-and-black Citroëen 2CV
Charleston. Greetings to all fellow owners out there and to those who want to learn a little more
about one of the rarest 2CV variations. I hope I can help out a little.
These pages therefore are dealing mainly with the yellow and black Charleston because there is almost
nothing about them on the internet. I try to collect exact production numbers and -times and to establish
a registry of all yellow and black Charlestons that still exist - if possible.
This site is not about technical advice, simply because I don't know such things. Also, questions
concerning availability of 2CVs and spare parts are better and more precisely answered by the internet.
I'm sorry, but I hope you'll understand.
All material on this site is copyrighted and for private use only. Redistribution only with
permission.
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A young woman named Kathrin started it all. When I saw her yellow-and-black Charleston in 1994 I was
immediately drawn into it. The color scheme of this car, whose species existed mainly without notice
from my part so far, fascinated me. And apart from that, Kathrin and I have spent some uniquely beautiful
moments together with her 2CVs. That's how I lost my heart.
But there's one thing that surpasses all: Driving a 2CV. It simply is... something special and very
impressive in an unusual way. You cannot explain it, you have to experience it. People are smiling at
you and suddenly gaps are opening up in traffic that probably would have never opened for other cars.
Not only because of that is driving a 2CV different.
But the need of having to drive a 2CV again has not only been present since then, it also got stronger
and stronger. So I had to have a 2CV, a Charleston, yellow-and-black. I hadn't driven one for quite a
while, because I have never owned one so far and people around me changed one by one to other cars -
driven by need. Even Kathrin.
At first I wanted to do the restoration myself, but after one year of looking out for one I decided
to pass the task to a specialist. I saw Charlestons that were so totally rotten, that it became clear
to me that I neither had the time nor the knowledge to do such work. Well, so my 2CV has been rebuilt
in Senden, Germany.
Many people have then said that I am crazy (but they mostly didn't mean the 'nice' crazy). But those
people have never driven a 2CV and therefore cannot understand - how are they supposed to? However, when
I'm driving my 2CV through the city and look into the shop windows I see in the mirror image a happy
and content person. That many of the 'others' don't...
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