1971 chassis # 00SB1399

[hydropneumatic]

Sweden
Miles: Unknown
Transmission: Unknown
Exterior: Feuille dorne
Interior: black Leather
My comments
Mr. Sulo Pietikäinen (Finland), Mr. Poppe Löfman, Mr. Jan Nybom (2002 Sweden)
Second SM in Finland
Other comments
From: http://www.citroenkerho.fi

This car has been deliberately ordered to Finland, as of course the first one, but not in the normal way, but the importer's sale in the customer's order directly to the customer himself.

This client was a plumbing contractor Sulo Pietikäinen the city of Savonlinna. He was just at the turn of 1970-71 purchased the finest available in their job, ie DS21 Pallas, but after hearing that Citroën had presented a still more brilliant and nicer car, he wanted to be a for himself.

Pietikäinen company had just signed a contract with the Tallinn Viru Hotel tube, award, so Sulo did not have the money to be concerned about. So he marched Korpivaarantie car dealers and ordered himself to the SM. Korpivaara organized Pietikäinen, the Paris SM are presented with a factory test rider carried a Pietikäinen along the test track and introduced a car with brilliant features. Order was supplemented in Paris, and Pietikäinen ruksasi all the time available accessories: tinted windows, leather interior, air conditioning, radio and fog lights.

Pietikäinen car was a gold-colored Feuille dorée (AC319), leather interior was black. When Pietikäinen, commissioned by the car arrived in Finland, Savonlinna kind of dealer Viljakainen's Auto Oy car dealer Pertti Paajanen had the honor of visiting to get the car to the customer. Paajanen drove Pietikäinen SM koekilvillä Savonlinna, where it was registered on April 2, 1971 MZJ-24 shields.

Pietikäinen drove the SM has a lot, and it was a familiar sight at a construction site on the outskirts of Hotel Viru throughout the construction period. As the prime contractor for the hotel was also a Finnish Construction Ltd Mikko Repo, was born in the general illusion that SM would have been a leader Mikko Aurora property. But this was not the.

Sulo Pietikäinen was the Citroën fanatic for a long time, and therefore it is probable that his SM: otal felt that it was a normal upstream SM's fate: it was believed that Sitikka need to get some fuel tank, and heavy feet. Nelinokkaisen fine motor required for regular maintenance and adjustments were forgotten and the engine began to show symptoms. Pietikäinen got bored. He changed the SM Viljakainen the last model series DS23 ie halibut in 1975.

SM migrated to southern Finland in Vantaa, while Poppe Löfman bought it from Savonlinna. Viljakainen's car dealership that it had just undergone a complete engine overhaul, which Löfman that was, however, apparently failed because the engine ate a lot of oil and had a rattling noise. Löfman had already yhyttänyt new engine from France, but at the same time saw a car eye-catching so much the kind of attention that he did not want to, so she changed it at Vantaa company need a tractor excavator. Tractor Store SM had continued Löfman memory Loimaan according to the direction in which the tracks then finally disappeared.

Car for the past Greetings came Poppe Löfman and also Pekka Pirttiniemi the insurance company and the police who investigate a car fishy disappearance.

Urban legends

When striking, expensive luxury car disappears without a trace decades, it raises a lot of passions, speculation and rumors about what happened to it.

Here are some of the best known, several of them told yet precise details of the care taker:

1 car is driven in late winter through the ice of Lake Saimaa and raised the insurance money.

2 The car is sold abroad, reported stolen and brought the insurance money.

These first two are also linked to the belief that the car would have been Mikko Aurora. (Construction Ltd Northern Mikko allegedly bankrupt around the same time at the end of the 70's.)

3 The car is actually stolen and disappeared without a trace. Insurance compensation paid, of course.

4 Car has had a devastating crash outside St. Petersburg. Guilt doubt, therefore to be excluded as such there on the roadside.

5 The car is driven deliberately and agreed the Russian logging truck after another, brought the truck to the stage, sold and exported the same way the party leader Leonid Brezhnev SM's spare parts. (Brezhnev subjects were reported to be in SM, which he would have received as a gift from the French Government.)

6 The car is hidden in Savonlinna / Mikkeli region in a shed. It is still there.

The truth

The truth is often more amazing than fiction. So also in this case. Pietikäinen old SM came to me suddenly in our country to neighboring Sweden in autumn 2007.

Swedish story of the SM would come to Sweden win playing poker. The Swedish report card shark has had with your partner not only kynimässä Finnish SM's also a Jaguar and a van.

Jaguar has been rapidly introduced in Sweden, but the SM has not been received papers at all, so it is only stored in the Kiruna Citroën dealer's ownership until 2002, when another Swede Sitikkadiileri, SM-wizard and -friikki Jan Nybom KILAFORSS southern Sweden, has bought the car for spare parts, when one of his SM buddies had gotten loose from the truck wheel SM boot their bow ugliest consequences.

The car dismantling Nybom was soon noticed that the roll-off is just too good to be destroyed, totally rust free body, the engine seemed totally new, and the whole car quite a bit of ajetulta. Jan Nybom left the bow of the parts after the sale of such lot to rest. Later, he also consulted the papers tracing the story of the car and Finnish origin.

When they heard this, he began to look for papers from Finland. Finnish Vehicle Administration had not been able to help, so he turned importer. The importer's representative again contacted the Finnish Sitikkakerhoon, when it became apparent that Finland's second original SM was found.

SM's falling into a card game bet is still unclear, but the last in Finland the registered owner Reijo Lehto (car, however, was his wife's May Day grove in the name of) the car was stolen from him in Pori in April 1976, Lehto, of course, made a theft police report and request for reimbursement to the insurance company, but the police did not for some reason did not think theft, so the insurance company left without paying compensation. Lehto couple had the time to grow their business because of so busy and lots to do, they were not able to fight with the authorities, but the matter remained and gradually forgotten completely.

Swedish story of the card playing is apparently occurred in northern Finland, where SM is then passed to Kiruna. Is losing a card player was not the same, a car is stolen from Pori and driven to the north, and which, therefore, has been in quite a hurry to dispose of the rare and striking the car even if it is a card game taking big risks? It is at least not yet know, and it may be that this secret never revealed at all, because one of the SM's northern Finland phase of the person is a couple of years ago passed into eternity this information with them.

When SM's whereabouts survived the car to the last Finn to the owner, his mind was, of course, to get the car back; after all, he had never received any compensation for theft, so he was still the legal owner of the car. He turned to the police, who could only net, saying that the police have jurisdiction. All stages of the car possibly related offenses have more than 30 years out of date. Car ownership does not expire, so there was no confusion.

At this point, entered the Finnish Citroën enthusiasts to the figures, told Sweden Jan Nybomille car right - or at least official - the story and began to negotiate with him in the car price and Reijo Lehto securities. After several months of continued negotiations after both Finland and Sweden were found from the consensus, deals were made and the car made a return migration to the old homeland in late May 2009.

Savonlinna time, the engine was poorly repaired by Reijo Lehto vaihdattanut Korpivaaralla factory new replacement engine in winter 1976 just a couple of thousand kilometers before the vehicle is stolen. When returning to Finland, this SM, therefore, was technically excellent condition, is it because the years of the Swedish been driven at all. And 38 years old Car of the total of all terribly.

The current owner Markku Hyvärinen Laukaa also managed to negotiate a trade that landed in the bow of the articles of the bumper, Headlights kääntöhydrauliikkoineen, coverslips and their other accessories. Therefore, we can wait for a car to see the events possibly during this year.

In any case, Markku welcome to SM-member of the split and congratulations to the vehicle's historic cultural works!