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1970 Citroën D Super

            Thursday 29th December 2022.
Camera: Leica IIIf 35mm Rangefinder (1952).
Lens: Leitz 5cm Summarit f/1.5 (1952).
Film: Ilford FP4 Plus ISO 125 35mm black & white negative.
Development: ID-11 1 + 3 20C/21m.

A D Super is an ID series Citroën. The IDs were more affordable versions of the immortal DS models: smaller engines, mostly; slightly (or substantially) less complex hydraulic systems (depending on the model year and spec). IDs never had the hydraulic gearbox (BVH) or the additional brake accumulators fitted to all DS models (except, for certain D wagons, which were, by classification, ID models). Generally IDs used less powerful motors and (with only one exception) never had a five speed gearbox. Some early ID models used a purely manual steering rack with neither power assistance or high pressure hydraulic rack, and even a conventional braking system with a standard type of master cylinder.

Notwithstanding this, they were fine vehicles with all the style of their more prestigious DS siblings, and despite cost-cutting in other areas, all were supplied with Citroën's famous hydropneumatique suspension. 

By the time this 1970 model D Super arrived, the IDs had been edging closer to their higher specification DS brethren, particularly in certain export markets. For example, manual steering models had long been discontinued: even the most basic IDs used high pressure steering. And this Super (like most Australian imports) is also fitted with the legendary directional auxiliary lights which swivel with the front wheel steering. In metropolitan France this was a feature not even standard to a basic DS21 and an option on all but DS Pallas vehicles, however late IDs imported here were optioned up, and most third front IDs had them. A few third front ID 19s using fixed, non-swivelling auxiliaries did arrive-it's uncommon to find one of those here, nowadays, although I have sighted a couple over the years.

A 1970 model D still features the earlier type of door handles used through 1971, until new doors with recessed handles were introduced during the 1972 model year for all D variants.
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