Happy Memorial Day, friends! I know this is really a more introspective holiday, so I’m never entirely sure if the use of “happy” or that exclamation point is appropriate, but I’m choosing to focus more on the less-serious parts of the holiday, if that’s okay with you. Specifically, like the legendary mattress retailers since the building of the Sphinx, we’re offering exciting deals today! On Autopian Membership! The greatest gift one can give, to oneself or another human/beloved animal!
We’re giving our hardworking staff the day off today, but while they’re recuperating and soaking their brains in BBQ sauce and booze to re-invigorate their natural fantastic automotive-story-generating abilities, we’d like to offer you this staggering opportunity: if you sign up for any Autopian Annual Membership or upgrade an existing one, we’ll give you 10% off! That’s like 5% off, twice!
To redeem this mind-scrambling deal, use the discount code 2CVROOM. There’s a reason for why we picked that code, and it has to do with the other part of this remarkable deal: for every new membership, upgrade or annual renewal we get, I will drive my 29 horsepower Citroën 2CV one lap around the track at our track day event at Lime Rock!
So that means if we get 100 new memberships or renewals, I’ll be driving 100 laps. And we’ll try to livestream the whole thing! Will I get sick and puke in the car after lap 30? Will a wheel fly off this ramshackle little French escargot that sat in a weedy backyard for 10 years before I got ahold of it? I hope not. Will I succumb to Track Madness? Probably!
So not only will you get to slowly and inexorably torture me by trapping me in an incredibly low-power car with massive body roll on a curvy track for potentially hours, you’ll also get the considerable benefits of membership, including member-exclusive merch like t-shirts, pins, and stickers; access to special members-only posts, which are the ones that have the most exciting insider dirt and industry gossip; access to the members-only sections of our thriving and exciting Discord server; and, depending on your membership tier, get access to VIP treatment in some interesting and unexpected ways!
And then, of course, there’s the fact that you’re helping to sustain what we hope is the greatest and most welcoming and engaging automotive community anywhere, period.
So, pick a membership tier and sign up! Remember, 2CVROOM gets you 10% off any new annual membership or upgrade! Trap my ass in that 2CV on the track for as long as possible, dooming me to an absurd number of hours in there, going around and around and around, like Sisyphus if he, instead of rolling a boulder up a hill for eternity, had to row the gears of a 602cc car around a track, forever!
I hope everyone has a meaningful Memorial Day, even if you don’t get a membership or buy a mattress or any of that.
“Make you” drive your 2CV on track? Like you aren’t itching to race it. One of the amazing things about 2CVs is that you have to drive it flat out all the time, a race track is no more demanding than a drive to the shops.
You know there is a 24 hour 2CV race at Snetterton Circuit in the UK?
Anyway, I once did a lap of the Hethel circuit in an empty Diesel Ford Transit van, and it was hilarious. The less appropriate your track vehicle is the more fun you have.
What a clever marketing idea. As it is a 2CV do you know how many episodes the video will come in? This could actually take days to drive
Torch now owes me a 2CV lap. How do we convince Parker to drive Torch’s 2CV for a hot lap to see how close Torch can come to matching that pace?
Will it be at any less than Pied au Planche? Because if so it will only come down to who’s the lightest…
Hah, I don’t think it’ll take much convincing.
Well finally decided to become a member. No trackday for me though because I am in another (the wrong?) continent.
Think of all the admiration you’d get for traveling the farthest. Especially if you ship your car. Especially if it’s a POS.
> get access to VIP treatment in some interesting and unexpected ways!
Finally gonna get that lap belt dance I was promised all those years ago.
What, like you guys don’t all want to see the history of automotive safety restraints as rich, interpretive dance from the humble oh-shit bar through the incredible engineering of explosive-fired retention mechanisms?
AKshually 10% off is equivalent to 5.131670% off twice (rounded to the nearest hundred-thousandth of a percent). I will accept a good-natured debate on this.
Each membership dollar supports this fantastic place and the community it serves, AND it’s another brick in the wall holding back the tide of media enshitification.
You’re technically correct – the best kind of correct.
10% of 100 is 10%, 5% of 100 is 5%, so it is like 5% twice. I think you must be using the metric system.
Why I do use the metric system; thank you for noticing 🙂
5% chain discount.
PSA:
Some of the membership benefits include helping brainstorm ridiculous challenges like this over on the Discord.
It’s great.
I just upgraded from Vinyl to Velour.
So there’s one lap for me.
It would be a fun challenge to make ppl drive a lap for each horsepower they bring.
Are scooters allowed? If you bring less than 1hp do you have to walk the rest of the lap?
This is extra funny bc I just got back from walking my motorcycle to the gas station. 0/10 do not recommend.
Wow if enough people get a new membership, you’ll be forced to do something with the 2CV that you know you want to do anyway. Jason – you’ve found an amazing way to torture yourself into having fun!
shhhhhhhh
On the flip side, doesn’t he have to drive this car, that isn’t even on AutoZone’s computer and nobody named O’Reilly ever even heard of, back to North Carolina from Connecticut when he’s done?