I Wish This Citroën From My Daydream Existed

I’m not sure how I got started daydreaming about this, but I was thinking about something sort of like an overlanding trip. A trip to somewhere very remote and isolated, just driving something far away from any roads, something light and small and capable. Something I could sleep in, under the vast blanket of stars, but enclosed, because I’ve camped in rain enough to know I’ll be fine never camping in rain again. I thought about what kind of vehicle I’d want to do this in, and the Citroën 2CV Sahara came to mind. Remember, I was daydreaming. I can imagine weird shit like that.

You know what a 2CV Sahara was, right? These were special 2CVs built between 1960 and 1966 (with a lone one being built in 1971), never in large numbers, with only about 694 actually being built. They were originally made for oil prospectors in the Sahara desert who needed a light, rugged 4×4 vehicle to get around in.

The regular 2CV was only FWD, so Citroën developed a four-wheel-drive system in the simplest way possible: they shoved a second 13.5 hp air-cooled flat-twin in the rear:

There were two linked transmissions, two fuel tanks (one under each front seat) and the car could run on either engine singly, or both at once. This gave a nice bit of redundancy, because if you had a mechanical problem with one engine, you could limp home with the other.

The Sahara proved very capable off-road, as you can see:

But a Sahara isn’t really ideal to sleep in; it’s still a regular 2CV body, after all, and since I’m daydreaming, I’d prefer something I can sleep in. Citroën did make a more van-like variant of the 2CV called the Fourgonnette:

…but there was never a Sahara version of the Fourgonette. And that’s what I want for my overlanding daydream! It’d look something like this:

Like the Sahara, it would have the hood-mounted spare tire, under-seat fuel tanks, cutaway rear fenders, and, yes, the extra engine at the rear:

I’d like to relocate the air cleaner a bit lower to get the engine a bit shorter, since I’ll need to have a Volkswagen Type 2-like hump over that engine in the back there, and I want it as low as possible. I think the interior would look something like this, with a raised floor at the rear:

I could still rig a bed in there, though, with some space below it for storage or water tanks or whatever. I think this would be ideal! Here’s how I imagine it’d look from the rear:

The rear doors would be shortened to clear the rear engine bay, and it would have the Sahara-like exposed cooling fan back there.

I don’t really understand why Citroën never made a Fourgonette version of the Sahara, but I think they missed out on a fantastic opportunity. At least, you know, in my procrastination daydreams, which I’m told are a lucrative, heretofore unexplored market.