Citroen Car Club of America
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2667 Comino Del RioSan Diego, California 92108
United States
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Citroen Concours of America has been owned and operated by the Heilig family since 1980. The patriarch of the family, Hank Heilig, was educated as a Citroen mechanic at a Citroen dealership outside of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has been continuously working on Citroens since 1949. Hank moved his wife, five sons and single daughter to Vancouver, Canada in 1970 and was promptly hired by Citroen Canada Ltd as their technical representative for the Western provinces. When the Citroen SM was introduced to North America in late 1971, Hank was the first in Western Canada to be technically certified as an SM mechanic and he traveled througout the Western Canadian provinces to train and certify the mechanics in each individual Citroen dealership. Hank bought his own Citroen dealership, Parthenon Motors - based in Vancouver Canada, in late 1974 (unfortunately the last year for new Citroens in Canada) and continued operating it until 1984 with the distant hope that Citroen would eventually return to North America.