Forgotten movie cars: The Citroën 2CV from "Bon voyage, Charlie Brown"
01/26/2022
A dog who is a fighter pilot in the First World War, a tennis ace, a famous ice hockey player and even a world-famous supermarket cashier can of course also drive a car. So in the movie "Bon voyage, Charlie Brown", it is Snoopy's job to chauffeur the "round-headed kid" and his friends Linus, Marcie and Peppermint Patty to their exchange students.
After an adventurous trip by plane, train and hovercraft, the six (Woodstock comes along as well) are given a surprisingly accurately drawn, blue Citroën 2CV as a rental car in France for the last leg from Calais to Le Héron. Only the interior, with its crank windows, stick shift and three-spoke steering wheel, is a little more luxurious and sporty than usual.
Snoopy, who can only see out of the car with his suitcase under his butt, admittedly has a hard time with the manual gearshift and operating the clutch. It grinds and scrapes when engaging the gears, the clutch jerks, and the car hops off the parking lot – undecided between stalling and driving. Only for someone to promptly crash into the back of it on the road.
On the way, the Citroën leans spectacularly out of the bend, breaks down at one point and lets the windshield wiper motor smoke out in the pouring rain. Nevertheless, the dog and the car get the friends safely to their accommodation and, after two weeks, away again – not without another rear-end collision, of course.
