Baby-Brousse


The Baby-Brousse is a Citroën 2CV-based utility vehicle, initially privately built, that later spawned the FAF series of vehicles.
Similar to a metal-bodied Citroën Méhari, the Baby-Brousse was a success with more than 28,000 being built from 1963 to 1983. The entire body was made of folded sheet metal with the other parts being bolted together without welding.

Background

The Baby-Brousse was originally conceived in 1963 by two Frenchmen, Messrs. Letoquin and Lechanteurin, owners of Les Ateliers et Forges de l’Ebrié, a company in Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast.

Sales figures

Badge engineered Baby Brousses have been made and sold under different names in several places:
Based on the same concept as the Baby-Brousse, the Vietnamese Citroën Dalat was manufactured, with 3,850 examples produced. Its creator, Jacques Duchemin, proposed the FAF concept to Citroën when he came back to France after the fall of Saigon.
The first FAFs were built in 1977, at the Citroën plant in Mangualde, Portugal.
In Argentina: Savoiacars , has prepared some cars based in the Méhari, with improved platform and engine, and another with body of their own design.