Review by Pete Vack
For being the third largest producer of automobiles in France, there is not much ‘out there’ about Simca. A fairly thorough search reveals little aside from a few softbacks covering the later 1100 series, a few repair manuals, and a couple of rather short histories in French. And some French cook named Simca competes in the same Google space.
The lack of available books and articles is one reason we (ok, I) just don’t know much about Simcas. Yet we grew up in Simca’s heyday, we knew about Simca Fiats, we cheered on the Simca Gordinis, had friends who owned Arondes (yes, really!) and loved the beautiful Simca Sports convertibles and coupes of the early 50s as well as the later Bertone bodied Simca coupes of the sixties. [Read more…] about Book Review: The Simca Story