{"id":217606,"date":"2010-01-23T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T23:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=34438"},"modified":"2010-01-23T18:46:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T23:46:04","slug":"citroen-sm-breadvan-racer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217606","title":{"rendered":"Citro\u00ebn SM Breadvan Racer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34439\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/citroen-sm-breadvan-racer\/citroen-sm-shortened-prototype-rear-and-side-1024x768\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-34439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Citroen-SM-Shortened-Prototype-Rear-And-Side-1024x768-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Citro\u00ebn SM was by no stretch of the imagination a rally car. It was heavy, luxurious, and big. It&#8217;s Maserati-derived V-6 only put out about 175 horsepower and its self-leveling hydro-pneumatic suspension and speed-sensitive power steering were complex and fragile. Still, that didn&#8217;t stop the mad Frenchmen at Citro\u00ebn\u00a0from fitting it with some Cibie lights and entering it in one of the most grueling rally races in history, the 1971 <a title=\"Wikipedia - Rallye du Maroc\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rallye_du_Maroc\" >Rallye du Maroc<\/a> in Africa. And despite its plush ride and complex engineering, it won.<\/p>\n<p>What we have here is a later short-wheelbase rally racing SM. It&#8217;s a souped-up SM that&#8217;s been cut down to make it lighter and faster. It also has a wicked <a title=\"Wikipedia - Kammback\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kammback\" >Kammback<\/a> &#8220;breadvan&#8221; style rear end for improved aerodynamics. No breadvan SMs were ever sold to the public, but an industrious builder could replicate one with a Sawzall and some serious metalworking skills.<\/p>\n<p>Checkout more pics of the SM breadvan at <a title=\"Serious Wheels, SM Breadvan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouswheels.com\/cars\/abc\/top-Citroen-SM-Shortened-Prototype.htm\" >Serious Wheels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XfLe6lSe1yagrCwekRUVnUkF488\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XfLe6lSe1yagrCwekRUVnUkF488\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XfLe6lSe1yagrCwekRUVnUkF488\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/XfLe6lSe1yagrCwekRUVnUkF488\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Citro\u00ebn SM was by no stretch of the imagination a rally car. It was heavy, luxurious, and big. It&#8217;s Maserati-derived V-6 only put out about 175 horsepower and its self-leveling hydro-pneumatic suspension and speed-sensitive power steering were complex and fragile. Still, that didn&#8217;t stop the mad Frenchmen at Citro\u00ebn\u00a0from fitting it with some Cibie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}