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    In 1980, Citroën brought a pyramid to Paris


    By 1980, the wedge profile had become… well… a bit Seventies. In order to generate more foot traffic to its stand at that year’s Paris Motor Show, Citroën gave the go-ahead for a striking trapezoidal concept car: the Karin…
    Trevor Fiore, Citroën’s design chief during this period, was a curious chap. Born in England as Trevor Frost, he soon took on his mother’s name in order to add a little Italian credibility to his work. Perhaps it worked, because he became Robert Opron’s successor at Citroën in 1980, but not before penning designs for several carmakers under the flag of his own consultancy in previous decades.

    Pyramid in Paris

    Shortly after his arrival, a deadline was looming large for Fiore and his team: the 1980 Paris Motor Show. No new production models were in the pipeline, but he was intent on giving the French public something to ‘ooh-la-la’ over on the marque’s home turf. The resulting Karin was an instant hit: there might have been a hint of a wedge-profile hangover, but few had seen a truncated pyramid-on-wheels before. Despite the radical profile, Fiore managed to incorporate some marque references – but these were limited to SM-style headlights and a few double chevrons. In truth, though, such a concept could only have been given the green light at Citroën.
    Inside, the car embraced the revolution of information overload that was to come: a specific button was assigned to every function imaginable, and one information screen was not enough – more monitors would reveal themselves from their flush position in the doorcards. But perhaps most interestingly, Fiore specified a central driving position, with a passenger seat on either side for a wife and a mistress. He had obviously been quick to add a bit of French culture to that Anglo-Italian heritage of his.
    Photos: Citroën
    You can find numerous classic Citroëns for sale in the Classic Driver Market.

    MARIA’S YAMAHA SRV250


    Yamaha SRV250 Motorcycle
    The Yamaha SRV250 was a hat tip to the classic cafe racer long before the modern resurgence of the genre, they essentially took the V-twin out of a 250 Virago and retuned it from 21hp to 27hp and then bolted it into a frame that bears more than a passing resemblance to the iconic Norton Featherbed.
    The resulting motorcycle weighed in at 140 kilograms (308lbs) and quickly developed a reputation for being a fun, “chuckable” motorcycle well suited to city and urban use. It wasn’t long before the custom motorcycle community caught on to the chopability of the SRV250 and customs started appearing, in countries like Australia and New Zealand the bike began to develop a cult following and despite the fact that many of them are now well over 20 years old, they’re still a common sight on the street.
    The tidy little Yamaha SRV250 cafe racer you see here belongs to a friendly Swede by the name of Maria, she’s a founding member of Sydney’s Throttle Dolls and a significant figure in the city’s motorcycle scene. You may remember her face from a Stories of Bike film we featured a few weeks ago called Sister and due to a dash of serendipity thanks to Heleana from In Venus Veritas, I was able to strike up a conversation with Maria about her bike which resulted in the feature you’re now reading.
    The build is the work of custom motorcycle builder and graphic designer Shane Wahl, it was intended to be a lightly customised bike that would be used as a daily rider by Maria so the first order of business was to remove the bulky stock saddle and fit a Nitrohead seat after cropping the sub-frame to match. A pair of clip-on handlebars was next up followed by Halcyon bar-end mirrors, chrome LED bullet indicators front and rear, heat-wrapped exhausts, a mesh grill over the headlight and some custom paintwork on the side covers and matching helmet.
    The bike has been used on innumerable road trips around New South Wales and Victoria, and it’s a regular fixture at events held by the Sydney Cafe Racers. Maria’s whole family rides, her mother and aunty learnt to ride as young children in Sweden and her uncle has built a dozen custom BMW motorcycles over the intervening years so it was always on the cards that Maria would ride too – it’s a family tradition spanning back three generations.
    If you’d like to see the Yamaha SRV250 in action you can click here to visit Stories of Bike and see Maria’s short film, although fair warning, it’s going to make you want to toss a swag onto the back of your bike and hit the open road.
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    Photography by Cam Elkins and Billy Zammit.
    via SILODROME

    Artcurial, Fine Watches, Dec 10th 2014

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