HISTORY OF THE 2CV
THE 2CV BRINGS HOME 6 PERSONS
FROM LAOS TO PARIS
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FROM LAOS TO PARIS |
| After having worked 15 years in Indochina, Jacques Pochon-Davignon has to return to France with his family: his wife and four children, Thierry (3 years), François-Régis (7 years), Jean-Luc (11 years) and Anna-Marie (14 years). But this is a father who isn't afraid of anynothing: Jacques Pochon- Davignon dares to transform the long way home into a touristical journey and travels through the whole of Asia and Europe with his little 2CV "camionette" which was built locally and that had already 36.000 kms. behind the wheels on Cambodian grounds: the car is run in very well! Soon the whole family with all its belongings is seated in the 2CV that heads to adventurous roads. As far as Bénares there are only very bad roads, impenetrable forests, endless deserts, mountain passes to a height of 3.000 metres, where the 2CV breaks through without desponding. Bangkok, Singapore, Madras, Ceylon, Mysore, Haïderabad... With their ears and eyes wide open the children learn geography. Bénares the holy city of India astonishes them. But this is not the last city they are delighted about: they will visit Teheran, Bagdad, Jerusalem, Beyrouth, Istanboul, Athens, Belgrad, Milan, Geneva, Munich, Stuttgart and Brussels. On November 23, 1960 they left Vientiane in Laos, eight months later the arrival in Paris follows. In spite of the hard going of the roads and the restless carload the 2CV never failed during the family trip of 38.000 kms. |
