Vive Bertone, vive la France.
Long live Bertone, long live France.
Good thing you did it Bertone, or rather your star designer Gandini and nobody else. That would have been my personal motto now, because at that time Citroen was almost on the brink of bankruptcy and Peugeot went through a huge upheaval when it took over in 1976. So a lifeline, or better still, an ambulance in the form of a high-volume, easily marketable model had to be produced, as the journalists at the time expressed quite drastically, but in accordance with the truth. And Peugeot with Citroen actually had the luck of the brave! Citroen BX and Peugeot 205 both became million sellers, the BX was sold over 2.3 million, the Peugeot 205 even became the bestseller of the PSA group with over 5 million vehicles.
I have been practicing vintage car photography for more than 35 years and here I mainly photograph normal everyday vehicles which were still on the road en masse over 30 years ago. But also cars with extraordinary, beautiful design. From time to time I take pictures of cars, .. Read more…
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Netherlands
Netherlands
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany