Brief History. (from the article on the ACI website written by Ulrich Knaack, ACI Germany delegate)

In 1989, the 8th ICCCR in Flevohof (the second in the Netherlands) ended with a good financial balance, so Herman Sluiter (responsible at the Traction Avant Club Nederland at that time) and the Jean-Francois Ruchaud (President of Amicale Citroën in France) had the idea in 1990 to establish an international bank account and create the Amicale Citroën Internationale, to supervise the ICCCRs.

In the 90s, Citroën were in the period they now call the “dark-age” – no history, no clubs, no old models was the official politics. Times changed with the arrival of the new PSA-head Folz and especially by the support of the chief of Peugeots tradition department, Robert Peugeot.

Between 2000 and 2002 Citroën created a Conservatoire and a department for tradition themselves. However, Citroën had very little knowledge as to how the clubs had kept their history worldwide alive for more than 20 years and thus turned to the ACI for assistance in autumn 2002. It was a long process and there were many meetings until February 2004 when the new and formally organized ACI was established, recognized today by Citroën as the official and only platform to communicate with clubs. Automobiles Citroën wish only to speak to one partner and we as club representatives felt it quite important to also speak with one voice.

The above information is extracted from the ACI Website

In 2001, Pierre Peugeot inaugurated the Citroën Conservatory. Find out more about the Conservatoire in Paris

David Gerrie and Sandor Schubert