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Paris in February is a cold and grey place but for those of us who appreciate the automobile there is a hot spot to be found at the Porte de Versailles, within the halls of the Paris Expo. I refer, of course, to the R\u00e9tromobile, a cornucopia of motoring excellence from all points of the compass. The Special Correspondent patrolled the aisles and uncovered these treasures for your appreciation. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1931 the\noil company Yacco was seeking to obtain publicity for its products and bought a\nCitro\u00ebn C6F with which to tackle long distance records at Montlh\u00e9ry using its\noils. Re-clothed in an aerodynamic body in aluminium, this car, baptised\n\u201cRosalie\u201d after Sainte Rosalie, went on to attain 14 international records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Citro\u00ebn-Yacco\nteam returned to Montlh\u00e9ry in 1933 with a special version of the 8CV model.\nKnown as the \u201cPetite Rosalie\u201d, this car covered 300,000 kilometres at an\naverage of 93 km\/hr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the second prototype Bentley and the oldest surviving Bentley. Known as EXP2, it is the first Bentley to win a race, having crossed the line the winner of the Whitsun Junior Sprint Handicap at Brooklands on 16 May 1921 with F.C. Clement at the wheel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was eventually used as a practice car for the 1922 Tourist Trophy in the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Very rare indeed is this Micron cyclecar, the nose of which seems to steer with the wheels! Made in Toulouse by Henri Jany, it had front wheel drive and used single \u2013cylinder engines of either 350 or 500 c.c. Its claim  to fame was that four of them were entered for and successfully completed the Bol d\u2019Or, Europe\u2019s very first 24 hour race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1953 Lancia introduced their first proper sports racing car, the D20 Coup\u00e9. This scored a third place in the Mille Miglia and won the Targa Florio but persistent cockpit heat caused Lancia to make a spyder- bodied version, the D23. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Painted pale blue, this model first appeared at the Gran Premio dell\u2019 Autodromo di Monza at the end of June. This was a race for sports cars of up to 3-litres capacity and Felice Bonetto finished 2nd<\/sup> to Villoresi\u2019s Ferrari in this actual car, which is chassis 0002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernard\nPichon and Andr\u00e9 Parat formed in the late Forties a coach building company at\nSens. Initially they modified production cars, especially the Ford Vedette.\nHaving made a fixed head coup\u00e9 on the Panhard Dyna Junior, they introduced a\nmore sporting \u201cberlinette\u201d based on the Dyna chassis, the first example being\nshown on their stand at the 1953 Salon de Paris. Much lower and lighter, the\nbody was made of Duralinox and the model was known as the \u201c Dolomites\u201d. Some\n20-30 of these Panhard Pichot-Parat Dolomites were produced between 1953 and\n1957 and sporting successes were achieved, for example, Bernand Consten and\nPichot came 5th<\/sup> in the 1956 Rallye des Routes du Nord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The example\nshown is a 1954 model with the earlier split windscreen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Spring of 1936 Panhard introduced a radically new model, the Dynamic. Although it still used a sleeve-valve engine, two six cylinder sizes being offered, it had torsion bar suspension, independent at the front, and a completely new Louis Bionier-designed aerodynamic body with enclosed wheels and, most unusual of all, a central driving position, albeit on the earlier cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pictures above show the driving position of one such car dating from 1936; the complete car shown is a 1939 example with the later left-hand drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two views of\nthe Serenissima V8 3-litre that ran at Le Mans in 1966, retiring with gearbox\ntrouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eug\u00e8ne\nMauve, who created the Bol d\u2019Or race in 1922, \nbuilt and raced the Elfe cyclecar from 1919 to 1921. This is a truthful\nreplica of the version he ran in the Gaillon hillclimb in 1921 \u2013 it has a V-twin\nAnzani engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The work of Robert Bourbeau  and Henri Devaux, the Paris-built B\u00e9d\u00e9lia was considered the first successful French cyclecar. It was like a wooden coffin on wheels with tandem seating and the driver at the back! Power came from single cylinder or V-twin air-cooled  engines at the front driving the rear wheels through enormously long belts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It looked rather crude at first sight but these machines turned out to be surprisingly effective: one of them won the 1913 Cyclecar Grand Prix at Amiens and they were used by the French Army as field ambulances in the First World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a\nGiant! This Berliet T100 is one of two survivors of the four originally made.\nThey were conceived for work in the Algerian desert and the 50 tonne machine\nhas a V12 Cummins diesel. It appeared at the commercial Salon in Paris in 1957\nbut for this year\u2019s visit it had a journey from the Fondation Berliet (Lyon) of\nfour days on a low-loader trailer hauled by a Volvo FH 16 of 750 h.p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Blumlein, March 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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