Citroen Vanclee Other models

The register lists here 3 versions with a displacement of 602 cm³ from two cylinders, kerb weights from 614 to 640 kg, gross weights from 910 to 1,120 kg and widths from 1,490 to 1,510 mm.

Micro utility vehicles based on the Citroën two-cylinder formed a market segment of their own for decades, of simple, light and cheap-to-run vans, especially widespread in France and its former colonies, where some remain in use to this day.

With a gross weight well under 1,200 kg, all three versions sit far below today's EU class N1 for commercial vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes; an ordinary car licence sufficed to drive them, and neither road tolls nor the weekend driving ban for lorries ever applied to them. As in the 2CV, the boxer engine drives the front wheels, so the load area gets a flat, low floor free of a propshaft tunnel or rear differential, an unusually usable load volume for such a small vehicle.

On a used example of one of these three versions, the condition of the air-cooled two-cylinder and its carburettors, rust on the often simple sheet-metal body and running gear, the condition of the brakes and, on the utility versions, the load bed and its fixings all count; parts for the 602 cm³ engine are comparatively easy to source through the Citroën 2CV market.