Exposition de Voitures Anciennes par l'Automobile Club de Montguyon

 

A lovely old Simca 8 in the place de la Mairie, Montguyon.

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It is rather a long time since my last blog post due to the Covid pandemic that has stopped most events being held in the last eight months.   Thus, it was a great pleasure that a friend of ours told us of a local classic car event on Saturday morning 5th June.  It was held in the lovely Charente Maritime town of Montguyon, a short drive from where we now live in France.

Organised by the local car club - l'Automobile Club de Montguyon, they were able to put on a great little exhibition of cars In the town square, As you can see from the pictures below.

A lovely selection of Renaults, VWs and Simcas as we walked into the exhibition of cars in Montguyon.

The obligatory Citroën 2CV outside of the baker's shop.  Note the two wonderful old bakery delivery bicycles behind the car.

Perhaps, the star of the show was  this Rosalie, a well maintained 1934 Citroën 8CV.

Not all of the cars were French.  This is a Triumph Spitfire with a market stall in the background.

Renault 4CV in French Racing Blue colours and "go-faster stripes".

The distinctive line of a Simca Ami 6 from the swinging sixties.

A fifties Panhard Dyna.

Another British car - Morgan.

Simca 1000.

The bakers van - I assume this is an old Simca.

Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.

The more common Volkswagen Beetle.  In France it is called the Coccinelle or Cox for short.

Simca Aronde.

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Beautiful 1934 Citroën 8CV Rosalie hub cap.

Ruins of the old medieval Chateau Fort (castle) at Montguyon.

Simca Aronde 1300 (90A)

Simca Aronde at the 2016 American Legend in Lormaye.

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Simca, France.  Aronde means swallow in French hence the pretty emblem on this car.  This car pictured has a P60 badge on the side (see right) but looks more like the second generation Simca 1300 90A. The second generation Aronde was introduced in 1955 and was produced until 1958 and had a 1300cc engine.   The following P60 had a more modern looking body and full width conventional front grille.  The 1300 P90A had a top speed of over 80 mph but took over 20 seconds to reach 60mph.  In 1957 Simca made a wonderful; publicity stunt by taking a production model Aronde to Montlhery Autodrome and driving it for 38 days and 37 nights to cover 100,000 kilometres at an average speed of 113kph.  The Arondes also took part in and won some rallies.