This is a story of how I fell in love with a car

摘要

Like many things these days, it began with an e-mail. "Your Robert Cumberford once penned an article," wrote Mr. Greg Long, of Charlottesville, Virginia, "on the glories of the Citroen DS." Our design editor, it seems, is a huge fan of Citroerfs 1950s family car/spaceship, the one with the magic-carpet suspension and the Thunderbirds Are Go bodywork. Long had a very rare DS just coming out of a year-and-a-half restoration in Seattle, and he wondered if Cumberford would like to drive it home for him.