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Le Weekend, Cygnet (French Classic Cars)

Cygnet, home of the Lotus Eater and Red Velvet Lounge eateries (https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7165367970551834236#editor/target=post;postID=1789515365344557423;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=42;src=postname ; & https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7165367970551834236#editor/target=post;postID=1667150042274094703;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=24;src=postname), is a favourite UMPH destination.  The town takes its name from the title originally bestowed upon it by French explorer Bruni D'entrecasteaux - Port des Cygnes Noirs - which Google wants to translate as 'wearing black swans.'  UMPH knows that French is a funny language but he's not convinced that's quite correct; it's therefore enough to know that Cygnes was Anglicised to Cygnet and the rest, as they say, is history.

Le Weekend is Cygnet's festival of all things French - a pondering of what might have been if D'entrecasteaux and his contemporaries Jacques de Labillardiere, Huon de Kermadec and Nicolas Bauding - for whom many southern Tasmanian areas are named (the Huon Valley and Huonville being two obvious examples) - were more proactive and the French, rather than the English, had colonised our state.  The UMPHs just thought it was a good excuse to take the Peugeot for a spin and to photographs some other French cars.   

The Citroen 2CV is arguably the most iconic of all the French vehicles, with a production run from 1948 - 1990.


A nice touch!  Set-dressing worthy of The Block.


A pristine Renault 10.  Please also see: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7165367970551834236#editor/target=post;postID=646282425648987922;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=10;src=postname 


This Peugeot 404 ute was all Aussied-up with a bull-bar.



So we know what it's not.


A Maserati-powered Citroen.



If the 2CV isn't France's most emblematic car, Citroen's DS is.  Nearly 1.5 million examples were made between 1955 and 1975.  The design was by Flaminio Bertoni (not to be confused with the Italian styling house Bertone).


Access to change the rear wheel.


Out of this world.



This rare and interesting Panhard features in an earlier Classics by the Beach post.  For further information, please go to: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7165367970551834236#editor/target=post;postID=827588566725504543;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=22;src=postname.

Unimaginably comfortable - a Peugeot 504.

Au revoir. 


U M P H. 

(uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au).

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