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| 1960 DB HBR5, Antoine Laureau and Antoine Moreau, 2017 Tour Auto Optic 2000 |
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DB, Champigny sur Marne, France. Founded by Charles Deutsch and René Bonnet, this small French manufacturer produced small racing cars and sports cars from 1947 to 1961. One of their most successful model in terms of sales was the HBR5 which was sold between 1955 and 1961. As with many of their cars it featured a two cylinder Panhard engine. The one pictured above has a 851cc engine but others had 748cc engines or 954cc engines and some were supercharged. It had a fibre glass coupé body, was front engined and front wheel drive. They were entered in many long distance events such as Le Mans 24 hours and the Tour de France Automobile having sucess in the Index of Performance competition. The car was sometimes called the DB Coach and smaller engined versions were designated HBR4.
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