D.B coupè SERA by Jacques Durand, 1960
Photos by Alessandro Gerelli
AUTOMEDON MEETING AND EXHIBITION (PARIS OCTOBER 18th-19th) In addition to the traditional Paris Salon, during the weekend of October 18th, the Automedon old car event was held in the Bourget exhibition center near Paris, with many owner clubs and many spare parts dealers present
But what was really impressive to me, is the huge and incredible number of old car owners coming to Bourget to visit the event and show their cars in the parking areas. You can find very rare and old cars, but mainly more production cars like Citroen, Renault and Peugeot of the 50s and 60s.
In the hall there was a very important and interesting show of D.B cars: D.B is a French make, the result from the meeting of Charles Deutsch and Rene Bonnet producing excellent small sport cars till the early 60s, based mainly on Panhard engines.
1954 Deutsch Bonnet HBR
Deutsch Bonnet by Bill Devin, 1954
500cc D.B racer, 1950
D.B Coach HBR5, 1955
D.B HBR4 'Le Monstre', 1961
D.B Monoplace
A D.B engine, but in what car?
A '20s something Voisin
The Voisin sleeve valve engine
1025 5CV Citroen engine with an extra set of plugs
Facel Vega 3B, 1957
Citroen 11B Cabriolet
Citroen 7A berlina as found
Aggressive racing Dauphine
Alpine engine of the Dauphine
A Peugeot Six, probably a T183 which was a 2 liter six first produced by Peugeot in 1927.
Panhard & Levassor 8 cylinder Knight engined record car circa 1934.
Panhard Coupè Dolomites circa 1954. A Dyna Panhard with a gorgeous aluminum body by Pichon-Parat.
Delage D6 3 liter, 1939
Amilcar, possibly a CGS but aren't they all today?
Renault, of course, in the parking lot with no sign. Guess here: 6CV from about 1925 with four wheel brakes.
Innocenti 950 Spider
Panhard CD Le Mans coupè
Lamborghini celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Lamborghini Club of France.
Nice article and great photos of very interesting cars. Terrific!
Beautiful pictures, especially of all those DB’s. The engine is according to me part of the DB Missile. Great car, prelude to all those Matra victories.
The Dauphine engine is very interesting, and was not the usual configuration. The “Hemi” head is more characteristic of the later R-8 Gordini, than of the simpler earlier configurations shown in the Alpine
homologation papers – very interesting, very interesting! – Don
The car listed above as “a DB engine but in what car” is a DB Le Mans Convertible. The engine is a Panhard Flat Twin, not a DB engine. DB only made bodies and ‘souped’ up Panhard engines.