This is a fully-fledged French car but it has a lot of Italian in it: starting with the line, designed by Pininfarina, and ending with the engine derived from Fiat. It must also be said that Facel-Metallon has never made one regret the Italian bodywork: this was a really well built car thanks also to… Read More French aluminium: 1951 Simca 8 Sport
The Citroen SM has always been little considered in the world of classic cars, perhaps for the fact that it was a Citroen in itself, perhaps for the fear of facing the maintenance or restoration of a “complex” car, perhaps for both reasons. Yet when this car was unveiled in Geneva in March 1970, the… Read More Code S: 1972 Citroen SM
By now the word “Barn Find” is rather inflated and often used inappropriately, which is why we were intrigued when, reading about this car, we found that it is a “Container Find”. It seems in fact that this ato was recovered by the old owner who kept it in a wooden container used until the… Read More Container find: 1939 Delahaye 135M Cabriolet by Letourneur et Marchand
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them” (David Hume) In the panorama of classic car collecting there are many levels of rarity, beauty but, apart from the rarity which is measurable in numerical terms, beauty is very subjective. Yes, because beauty is often made up of several factors, although aesthetics is the… Read More Odd sedan: 1975 Citroën GS Pallas C-Matic
We have seen many “strange” cars in recent years, but a Barchetta built on the mechanics of a Citroen 2CV was definitely missing from our list. Especially if it is a Barchetta built with a beautiful aluminum bodywork, most likely built in the USA and part of the SCCA category, driven at the end of… Read More Riverside veteran: 1957 Citroen Seidlitz Special
Even though we have released other D-Jet matras like this one, we have to admit that this is probably the best one, or at least the one that has the right color. Blue is to France as red is to Italy or silver to Germany (or yellow to Belgium, and so on): these were the… Read More Pure France: 1967 Matra Djet V
The name Vespa inevitably makes us think of the most famous scooter in the world, but as enthusiasts know well that it is not just that. Indeed, The Vespa 400 of this article is a rear-engined microcar, produced by ACMA in Fourchambault, France, from 1957 to 1961 to the designs of the Italian Piaggio company.… Read More Unplugged: 1959 ACMA Vespa 400
We haven’t published many of these cars, but when we do we always have doubts as this car has been (and still is) always called differently, using more or less the same words. René Bonnet Djet, Matra Bonnet Djet, Matra Sports Djet, Matra Sports Jet are the variants with which this model is called: we,… Read More Many names: 1964 Matra Djet 5
There is a real cult for microcars, certainly not as widespread as that for “large size” classic cars, yet well rooted among collectors: the car featured in this article is the same model that was exhibited at the Bruce Weiner Microcars Museum, now closed. The car is a Mochet CM-125 Luxe, whose history in brief… Read More No license required: 1951 Mochet CM-125 Luxe
Perhaps it is a bit late for the participation of the Mille Miglia 2020 (in progress these days), however if the thing still interests you, this car could be the right one. It is in fact a Panhard HBR 5 first series, built in 1956 and characterized, precisely as the first series, by retractable headlights,… Read More Orange racer: 1956 DB HBR 5 “Mille Miglia”
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