Une chienne et une deux chevaux

This is a photo I took on December 30, 2008. The dog was called Callie. She was a border collie and she died in 2017 at the age of 10.

The car is a Citroën 2CV, meaning "two horses" — the term refers not to so-called "real" horsepower, but is a tax term used to set the cost of registering the vehicle by its first owner. My year 2000 Peugeot 206, for example, is a 5CV car in fiscal terms but it has a 90 HP engine. There is a formula for converting the two French terms (real vs. fiscal "horses") but it is too complicated for me to wrap my mind around it.

I was surprised to learn that the first 2CV cars rolled off the assembly line in 1948. I've always imagined it was earlier than that.