Citroen Avant Traction 11 Commerciale
Bodywork on Citroen Avant Traction
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Citroen Avant Traction 11 BN, BL, Commerciale, Familiale
We love Citroen Avant Traction. The car constructed in 1934 was being produced till 1957. Even now it is very good drivable. By 80 km/h it is driving perfectly and keeping the road.
Our goal was to make a comfortable Citroen car which we could use in summer time for mariages and sightseeing city tours. The BL model is to small for this task, BN of 15/6 would be O.K. but if you want to have really a lot of space for passengers and if they should get really the feeling of a cabriolet it should be a long model based on Familiale or Commerciale. You ll see the difference yourself if you see the photos.
Below we ll tell You what and how we are doing on this interesting project.
Bodywork on Citroen Avant Traction
Among all the colours we loved first this bi-colour solutions.
It is very easy to make a CTA Cabriolet. You just take a CTA Familiale or other model and make it to Cabriolet :)
The doors of Citroen Avant Traction is one of its weak places, expecially the bottom of the door. Sometimes You must cut it.
Here You can see the new bottom of the door. YOu can still see where is the new part.
Now You can hardly see the border of old and new part of the door.
After stripping down of colour (metal shot or other ways) you see normally this stage of the door.
Now the bottom of the door is ready also inside.
Sill panels you must cut or exchange. It is the second week place by CTA.
The bottom of the wing.
Some panels You can buy but some we must make ourselves.
Paint work on Citroen Avant Traction
Paint work on Citroen Avant Traction
Paint work on Citroen Avant Traction
The first paint is done to see the non smooth surfaces to correct it.
Now we don t paint the wheels like at this picture. We bring them now to powder painting.