Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[DeeJay]

 Only one car now exists and it is owned by Donald Ftrumpf, a well-known American chappie.

I thought this was Donald Trumps car?

 

[bangernomics]

MG GS?

 

 

Stick a vw or Aldi badge on it and it'd sell.

 

 

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[Junkman]

I just received a book about the French cars built from 1940 to 1946, i.e. the years when no 'Salon' took place.

It is so full of shite I've never heard of before, I shall report back in due course.

[barrett]

That sounds great, what's it called?

[Junkman]

Toutes Les Voitures Francaises 1940-1946 - Les Annees Sans Salon

by Rene Bellu

[Junkman]

It begins with the 1941 Gregoire AFG.

 

 

Looks vaguely familiar?

Yep, that's because it morphed into the Panhard Dyna after the war.

 

AFG stands for Aluminium francaise Gregoire. The car was purely made from aluminium to save weight.

The bulkhead/sills/windscreen surround is one big piece of extruded aluminium casting:

 

 

Everything else is then bolted to this part.

[Junkman]

Next is the 1942 Antem, a little electric roadster:

 

[Junkman]

Ardex also made electric cars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

1940 Autelec:

 

 

The company also made electric commercial vehicles:

 

[Junkman]

The Berliet Dauphine is the last passenger car the company ever produced:

 

 

It shared the body with the Peugeot 402.

[Junkman]

1945 Boitel:

 

 

 

This two cylinder 400cc was developed near the end of the war and displayed at the 1946 Paris Salon.

Engineer Boitel soon realised that this vehicle was too small to transport 2 people in any comfort, so he set out to design bigger cars.

Finally he came up with a DKW-engined 688 cc microcar in 1947. Only few were built.

In 1949 Boitel went to jail for cashing deposits but not delivering any cars.

There are several sources of Boitel, each providing slightly different info.

[Junkman]

1945 Bouffort.

 

 

 

 

It sports gullwing doors 9 years before Mercedes invented* them.

 

They also made an array of microcars:

 

 

And finally made a roadster on the chassis of the Peugeot 403:

 

[Junkman]

Aeroplane maker Louis Breguet commenced making electric cars in 1942.

 

 

 

 

 

They were built until 1947, when the company returned to aeroplane production.

[Junkman]

1942 Bugatti Type 68.

 

 

330cc four cylinder with 16 valves and Rootes supercharger.

The engine was also tested in motorcycles, so yes, Bugatti made motorcycles, if you didn't know that already.

[UltraWomble]

Talking of Fiestas - am I alone in thinking the booted version looks quite sexy?

[Junkman]

Yes.

[UltraWomble]

I suspect these would sell in the UK if reasonably priced to yoofs and impoverished builders...

[UltraWomble]

If only Rover hadnt got there first with teh Streetwise

[robinmasters]

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Gurgel G15. Made of Plasteel. Brazilian. Not, as it first appears, a prop from a Supermarionation film.

 

I want to import ALL of Gurgel's weird cars.

 

That's now on the 'when I win the lottery' list. 

 

Another of theirs, the XEF. It's like someone has cut bits of pictures of other cars out a magazine and glued them together.

 

 

Another pictures; in this one they've kept the 80's Merc rear lights, BMW 2002 rear quarter lights & c-pillars, and Fiat doors, but changed the Merc front end for something between an Ital and a Disco 1.

 

[barrett]

The Bouffort 403 is from 1957.

 

I guess that book is one of those modern Automobilia re-hashes of Bellu's Tout les... books from the 80s? I will try and find a copy at retromobile anyway and see if it adds much to the années 50 book, which covers a lot of late 40s stuff too (the Borgé/Viasnoff book on occupation-era cars fills in most of the earlier blanks but in typically irreverent style)

[Junkman]

The Bouffort 403 is from 1957.

 

I guess that book is one of those modern Automobilia re-hashes of Bellu's Tout les... books from the 80s? I will try and find a copy at retromobile anyway and see if it adds much to the années 50 book, which covers a lot of late 40s stuff too (the Borgé/Viasnoff book on occupation-era cars fills in most of the earlier blanks but in typically irreverent style)

 

It is actually from the 1990s and yes, it's one of the hors serie "Automobilia" issues.

 

Yes, the Bouffort 403 is from 1957 and this is a 1956 Corvette:

 

[3VOM]

 

 

How did they manage to get George Orwell and his cat to test drive it?

[Junkman]

CGE Tudor. About 200 were built between 1941 and 1946.

Designed by Gregoire, electric with FWD.

 

[Junkman]

1942 Delettrez.

 

[Junkman]

1942 Electraph 225.

 

 

[JeeExEll]

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[UltraWomble]

It's a frumpy looking fucker isn't it.

I think it looks quite sexy, but I like small things.

I like the BMW 1 series saloon.

[RayMK]

The Electraph 225 reminded me of something, albeit with 4 wheels.  It took me a while to rake through memories.  A chap in Naphill, Bucks, had a Fairthorpe Atom in 1963ish - we lived at RAF Naphill and used to see this ugly thing with ill fitting doors when going to school.  We thought it was something that an old giffer had knocked up in his shed - until I bought 'The Dumpy Book of Cars' and saw that it was an official model.  Someone in Wendover a year or two later had a three wheeled Coronet.  Now that was really slinky. 

 

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6196/6126435173_6f0eb1a42f_b.jpg

[Junkman]

1941 Electrolette.

 

 

There was a smaller model as well:

 

 

This one was sold on Leboncoin:

 

[Junkman]

1941-1944 Favel.