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1972 Citroën DSpecial

1972 Citroën DSpecial in Back to the Future Part II, Movie, 1989 IMDB

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: FR — Made for: USA

1972 Citroën DSpecial

Position 00:29:42 [*][*] Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Comments about this vehicle

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fmr

12-10-2004 à 16:39

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LA CITROEN DS

EST UNE AUTO FUTURISTE POUR LES AMERICAINS

antp BE

09-10-2005 à 17:56

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Other views, and also a picture of the wrecked DS in alternative 1985:

bruno

2006-02-08 20:05

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Elle a été aussi futuriste pour nous, français, mais pour une fois ce sont eux qui ont du retard !!

Carfan US

2006-05-29 02:05

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On the DVD collectors edition they said this was a 1972 citroen DS-10

antp BE

2006-05-29 10:46

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DS 10 ? :??: It is a 20, 21 or 23, though I am not sure that they kept these names for the US... (but there is no info about a DS 10 on Google so it is probably not that)

Carfan US

2006-05-29 16:01

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But that's what it is. I'm not kidding.

Alexander DE

2006-05-29 16:46

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Carfan wrote On the DVD collectors edition they said this was a 1972 citroen DS-10

Could be a typo for DS 19.

The number is equivalent to the engine capacity. Available numbers are 19, 20, 21, and 23.

antp BE

2006-05-29 18:10

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Were there these new dual headlights used on DS 19 ? As they introduced the bigger engine before the new headlight style, I am not sure that they kept that small engine later.
And I am not sure that there were any DS 19 sold in the USA actually.

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antp BE

2006-05-29 18:17

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Carfan wrote But that's what it is. I'm not kidding.

No, that's what they said :p But they made a mistake, there is no reference to that model name anywhere...

tonkatracker US

2006-09-14 21:42

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according to the commentary on the DVD (i am watching it now) they said this cab is SAAB based

antp BE

2006-09-14 23:23

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:??:

Gag Halfrunt UK

2006-09-14 23:31

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tonkatracker wrote according to the commentary on the DVD (i am watching it now) they said this cab is SAAB based

That just means that the director (or whoever was speaking) got confused about which car was which.

JohnnyThunderz DE

2006-12-29 13:06

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while searching google for the the DS cab i found this picture that you find quite often
[Image: bttf2_cab.jpg]
i also found this one
[Image: Back_to_the_futureTeil2-1.jpg]
but on the same page there were also these photo ive never seen of the DS cab!
[Image: behindscenes_zm.jpg]
&
[Image: DSBack20to20the20Future_.jpg]
they must have been taken during the production of BTTF2

but! i also found these two photos of the Cab!
it was a french page and it says they wore shot in Auguts 2004
[Image: BTTF-1.jpg]
[Image: BTTF-2.jpg]

does this mean somebody still owns this strange DS? or does anybody know if this DS still excists and where it is? ... and if there are anymore pictures of her???

carchasesfanatic ES

2006-12-29 13:23

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Well, as well as someone owns the red BMW someone can also own this one ;)

JohnnyThunderz DE

2006-12-29 15:06

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i somehow hoped someone would own it and in that case rescued it from being scraped perhaps. like some other movie cars.
i wonder what this DS is worth now and what the guy paid for it back then?

paulius43 LT

2006-12-29 17:28

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JohnnyThunderz, thanks for a great find!!!

Donington UK

2006-12-29 19:40

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That is awesome! It would be amamzing if someone somewhere is driving it around!

Peter US

2007-09-09 02:45

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I saw this car in 1996.

It was based on a 1972 DSpecial (US Model) - the equivalent of a "19".

The car was fine, but the movie prop elements, like the grey foam rubber at ground level, was disintegrating, and all the platic was discolored from the sun - the car had been sitting outside for 10 years.

USH was planning to sell it to a memorabilia collector in Florida at that time. They had some sense of it's value.

Keen detective work leads me to conclude the Aug 2004 photo is genuine (not a production still from 1986), and the car is now fully restored and living a pampered existence in Europe.

Three reasons:
1. Thatched roof houses are pretty rare in the US
2. There is a clean red DS in the background indicating taken at car show
3. The car is in fully restored condition

screenused US

2008-10-25 19:15

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We used to own this car, and did restore it several years ago. It was shipped to Holland, and I believe that the collector had it on display at a Citroen dealership for a while - possibly still there. Here are pictures from our website after the restoration:








Desi
www.screenused.com

Neptune US

2008-10-25 19:31

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Nice! Thanks for sharing ... :) It looked better after it's restoration than it did in the movie.

tonkaTRACKER US

2009-09-09 20:40

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I couldn't sleep last night so I watched these movies and noticed that in the "alternate 1985" there is another DS smashed up and missing it's rear fenders next to the "chalk outlines"

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