Marc Roelandt has sent us this update on Alain Abadi’s tour across Europe in his GS “Drapeaux”

On July the 10th, the first country Alain Abadi visited with his GS was Belgium.
Nine Belgian GSses escorted him from the French border towards Brussels.

We met Alain in Quiévrechain, the town were he grew up and where his father used to have his paintshop ; it was also there that Alains father had to paint a GS draped with flags in 1971, for the Valenciennes Citroën main dealer.

A lovely drive through the countryside on B-roads led us to Brussels, where we visited the Autoworld Motor Museum and could take pictures, of course.

We wish Alain and his family a safe and pleasant drive to Germany and Poland !

Marc Roelandt

More pictures on : www.dssmclub.be – photo gallery

Dear friends of Citroën,

www.rossicontemporary.be

we warmly welcome Marc Roelandt as a new ACI Delegate for Belgium. He has been elected by the Amicale belge des Clubs Citroën (ABCC) on September 6th 2010. He replaces Dieter Pétré who resigned in January this year.

Mr. Roelandt is a former chairman of the DS/SM Club (for nine years), and was already involved in the organising committee for the 11th ICCCR held at Chevetogne in 1998. Recently he was the secretary of the committee that organised the ACI Event of the Year 2010, “Citroën Story 2010″ at the Zolder racetrack, and with success.

You can reach him via his email address roelandt.m@belgacom.net.

Many Citroën and Panhard Clubs and their members responded to the invitation of the organisers and came in large numbers with their precious collectors cars. More than 16OO classic Citroën and Panhard cars of all types came from far and near in Europe. Tractions, ID’s, DS’s and 2CV’s in all shapes and colors, SM’s, CX’s and many other Citroën vehicles filled the large parking spaces during the two days. A special section was reserved for the most beautiful examples of Rear Wheel Drive cars.

Alongside, the 6000+ visitors could admire the latest models of the brand, especially the trendy DS3, the new C3 and C5.

During Sunday’s program the many visitors and guests where able to watch exciting performances on the racing track by a number of famous Citroën rallye drivers. They showed their skills with demonstrations of older DS and SM rallye cars, as well with a ZX Rallye 1993 and the Xsara WRC 2003 which were kindly loaned by the Conservatoire Citroën, Paris. Many amateur drivers in their collectors cars where also allowed to race around the track during special sessions.

But the Zolder meeting had further attractions to offer, including a Concours d’Elégance, a parcours 4×4 with C-Crosser, a DS3 slalom, karting plus many PlayStations and WRC simulators. Collectors had the opportunity to buy spare parts and scale model from the dealers who exhibited along with some well known Belgian and Dutch restoration companies.

This ACI Event of the Year 2010, quite different from other large international meetings of the brand, offered visitors not only racing action on the track, but also a multiple selection of entertainment and attractions for young and old.

The organising team has to be heartily congratulated for having successfully managed and staged such a popular and successful event.

Selected pictures taken by Didier Parjadis:

The organizers of this year’s “ACI Event Of The Year” – Citroen Story / Belgium – have informed all ACI Delegates with a new update on the preparations at one of the most exciting locations within Belgium, the Zolder race track.

Attached please find their presentation which was held during the ACI AGM 2010 on Jan 23.

Please note that due to short time – the event will take 24-25 April 2010 already – we’d kindly like to ask you to push the information to the clubs as soon as possible.

Thank you!

PowerPoint presentation.

More details about the event also on the website: citroenstory.org

The Amicale Citroën Internationale, its Board and Delegates are pleased to announce the selection of “CITROËN STORY 2010″ as the ACI Event of the Year 2010.

“CITROËN STORY 2010″ is an event organized by the Belgian Citroën clubs
based upon their very successful annual meeting “Citroën Jumble”.

It will be held last week end of May or first week end of June (date depends of the official F1 calendar in Belgium which will be known before the end of this year) on the Zolder racetrack near Brussels.

This location is ideal because it is only 30km from the Netherlands, 50km from Germany and 80km from France.

The event will be open to all Citroëns at the same low entry fee. Complete and updated information will be delivered in our next newsletters and at the AGM in January 2010.

You will recall from the ACI Annual General Meeting in February that there was no proposal for the Event of the Year 2010. In June 2009, a proposal for 2010 was submitted to the Board by a group of Belgian Citroën car clubs (or Amicale Belge). The proposal was given tentative approval based on the experience of the organizing committee and the likelihood of a successful event. The Board sent out the proposal to
all Delegates with an attachment outlining the reasons for the tentative approval of the Board. After three weeks seventeen votes had been sent in. All were in favor of the Belgian proposal. Based on that vote the “Citroën Story” is declared the ACI Event of the Year for 2010.

Please check out more details on the event website at citroenstory.org.