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British car customiser Andy Saunders asked himself: what if Pablo Picasso had worked at Citroen's design studio? What would the iconic 2CV have looked like then?
So Sanders took a 2CV and, to celebrate the car's 60th birthday next Tuesday, turned it into a Picasso - sort of.
I decided to try and blur the line between car design and art by using Picasso as an inspiration, said Saunders, who was inspired by the Spanish impressionist's famous Portrait of Dora Maar.
Every panel on the car has been altered, leaving no visible symmetry.
The body shell has been widened by 152mm on the right side only, the boot has been moved off-centre and the bonnet is now made up of 12 separate parts.
The headlights are now on one side and the off-kilter grille and doors have deliberately been designed to look wonky.
The rainbow palette of colours comes from the shades used in Picasso's The 3 Musicians and Still Life on a Table.
Despite the conversion, which took Saunders more than 1200 hours to complete, the unique Citroen 2CV is still drivable and for sale.
It goes under the hammer at an auction in London later this month.
Citroen launched the 2CV at the Paris motor show in 1948.
The French carmaker built the first couple of prototypes 10 years earlier but buried them so they wouldn't fall into Nazi hands during World War II.
Between 1948 and when production ceased in 1990, Citroen sold more than five million 2CV models.
