The Citroën 2CV is the stolen car in which the group of the Operativo Cóndor descent traveled in 1966 from Buenos Aires to Claromecó, on the Buenos Aires coast.
| Type | Object (vehicle) |
| Era | 1966 |
| Spanish entry | Citroën 2CV |
History
With no car of their own and no license they could trust, the group stole a 2CV — the modest “Citroneta” of the time — in Nueva Pompeya, by the Riachuelo bridge, on the southern edge of Buenos Aires.
Piluso, the contact who handles jobs and hides packages, changed its license plates and paint so that it no longer looked like the stolen car. The same figure appears in the story of Antonio Portet, a comrade of the same descent.
The 2CV is light, slow and built for good roads, and ahead lay more than 530 kilometers of gravel to Claromecó. To make it last, it was tuned by “los Tucu”, a crew of mechanics from Tucumán who cook pollo al disco (chicken on a plow disc) between repairs. Even so, the stolen, repainted and patched car remained precarious, coughing along the gravel.