![A front three-quarter view of the Citroën DS21 Pallas Classic & Sports Car - Your classic: Citroën DS21 Pallas](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/2022-06/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20-%20Your%20classic%20-%20Citroen%20DS21%20-%2001.png?itok=R7Ts1rhI)
My earliest memory of the Citroën DS was in 1967, when I was 12 years old.
I had read an article in a newspaper about the ‘new’ DS, which had just been launched.
I probably missed all the hyperbole about the magic-carpet ride and the semi-automatic gearchange, but what caught my eye was that this was the first car to have steering headlights.
Little did I know that it was the latest version of a car that had been around since 1955.
![Front-end details on this classic Citroën DS21 Pallas Classic & Sports Car - Your classic: Citroën DS21 Pallas](/sites/default/files/2022-06/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20-%20Your%20classic%20-%20Citroen%20DS21%20-%2002.png)
Willie Bennie first fell in love with the DS when he was a child, in 1967
Over the past 40 or so years we have owned a succession of classic cars, mainly Triumphs including three Stags along with a Vitesse convertible that we kept for 17 years.
I’d had a notion of owning a DS for quite a while, but as prices and potential restoration costs for the model rose I thought the chance had passed me by.
Then, in November 2013, an acquaintance told me that he had an old 1967 DS21 Pallas with a semi-automatic gearbox lying in his garage.
![Willie Bennie’s Citroën DS21 Pallas on the back of a recovery vehicle Classic & Sports Car - Your classic: Citroën DS21 Pallas](/sites/default/files/2022-06/Classic%20%26%20Sports%20Car%20-%20Your%20classic%20-%20Citroen%20DS21%20-%2009.png)
The chance came in 2013 to acquire this 1967 Citroën DS21 Pallas