Description Pretty and honest example of Citroen's Traction Avant in short wheelbase 'Light 15' form; previosly owned by Citroen main agent who completed a 'body-up' restoration upon import c.1986; approximately £2,000 expenditure at Citroen Classics; desirable Paris built car The Citroën Traction Avant remains one of the most important and innovative cars of the 20th century.

Introduced in the 1930s, it was revolutionary for its time, featuring front-wheel drive, unitary construction, and independent suspension — technologies that would go on to define the modern automobile.

This very sweet example finished in white, is the shorter and narrower wheelbase ‘Light 15 model.

What it traded in size and passenger space with its big brother the ‘Normale’, it gained in performance and was seen as the more spirited and spritelier of the two.

Believed to be a desirable Paris built car manufactured in 1953, and originally delivered in black, this rather sweet example was imported to the UK i...