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It’s a Lancia and our Photo Feature. For details see below.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
We continue with the cars presented at the Chantilly Arts and Concours event held on September 24-25 2022. Please note the sidebar on the Tjaarda Lancia which appears at the bottom of this article.
R1064 “usines” with its streamlined body before the 1953 24 Heures du Mans © Renault Communication
Story by John Waterhouse*
The new Renault 4CV was soon used as the basis for what the author refers to here as “specials”, mostly lightweight coupés of one type or another, which began to appear by the late-1940s and early 1950s.
These “specials” ranged from an unknown number of both professionally-built cars that were made in very small numbers and home-made cars that are not the subject of this article. A few coupés were made by professional organizations in numbers that ranged from very few (like the V-P coupes discussed below) to many hundreds, like the Autobleu and Brissoneaux et Lotz coupés. Some of these cars were extremely stylish and those few that were made commercially were far more expensive than the standard saloons.