The Cityrama Citroen 55: The Daftest Bus Ever Built?

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20 Mar 2022, 2:45 pm

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"In 1956, a company called Cityrama decided to shake up the Paris sightseeing industry, by building the world's most outrageously ridiculous bus. Was it utterly brilliant? Yes. Did it have one catastrophic design flaw? Also yes... "



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20 Mar 2022, 4:10 pm

I love his channel so much. So many weird and wonderful things out there.

The barge train uphill canal machine has to be my favourite.



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20 Mar 2022, 4:37 pm

hurtloam wrote:
The barge train uphill canal machine has to be my favourite.

Oh, even with as much as I like canals, haven't seen that one!


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20 Mar 2022, 5:00 pm

We'll have I got good news for you. There's 2 of them!



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06 Apr 2022, 5:51 pm

i love that bonkers bus!! :heart:



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06 Apr 2022, 8:15 pm

Maybe they would be well suited to ...touring Nome Alaska, where their greenhouse tendencies would cancel out the frigid local climate.



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