Reply To: New member in California (and sometimes in France)

No, I don’t know the name of Robert Anderson, but I do recall Raymond- His was the last garage that worked on Citroens in Toronto. Our club now has all of his old Citroen factory tools for members to use. My Light 15 came to Quebec by way of South Africa, then Botswana. It was owned by a Canadian mining engineer and he had a 48 light 15 as well as the 54 and returned to Canada in 1976 or so. Here’s the story- Our club president George got a call back in 2005 from a lady who had the 48 in her basement since about 1980, her husband had died and she wanted it out. George called me, we went over and there it was, in the basement through two sliding glass doors. We did what it needed to get it roadable and it eventually was sold to a guy in Edmonton. While we were finishing the car up, she said she had another one in a barn in Quebec near Ottawa.

We went to take a look at it. It was on the second floor of a genuine barn. The ramp to the second floor was long gone and the car was trapped. She said that if we get the car out, it was ours for nothing, plus the remains of a third Light 15 that consisted of crates of parts. A lot of crazy schemes to get the car out were discussed, but I contacted a construction company who built a bridge and dragged the car out. It was a long-time mouse nest and when the sun hit the roof, yow-the stink! There was at least 50 pounds of mouse “debris” in it. We trailered it back to Toronto where I got it running and able to pass the safety test, similar to an M.O.T. I put in a later short block as the original had some scary noises coming out of it. I also rewired it, tires, brakes, shocks but left the body alone. I liked it with its flaking paint, dents and so forth. A lot of patina, that’s for sure. It had insurance stickers on the windshield from a company in Botswana and a sticker from Kruger National Park in S.A. A few years later some young idiot crashed into the rear end and insurance paid to restore the body and there was enough money left over to re-do the seats in leather. I kept it for a few more years and then sold it as I needed a new project car and it ended up in San Clemente, CA.