1929 Amilcar CGSS

1929 Amilcar CGSS at Retromobile 2018 in the Artcurial auction.

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Amilcar, Saint-Denis, France.  Amilcar started producing cyclecars (small, lightweight and inexpensive cars) in 1920 and made a name for itself in the twenties for its sporty vehicles.  The name car from its financiers Emil Akar and Joseph Lamy but the driving technical force behind the marque were two engineers Edmond Moyet and André Morel.  Unusually, for a cyclecar producer, they made there own engines.  The cars were often entered in motor sport events and Morel won the 1922 Bol d'Or, a 24 hour race with a single driver, in 1922.    In 1927 a 1.1 litre turbocharged Amilcar touring model G won the Monte Carlo Rally.  The CGSS model pictured here was produced from 1926 to 1929 and stood for Cyclecar Grand Sport Surbaissé.  It thus was a CGS with a lowered chassis.  It had a 4 cylinder  1.1 litre engine with 3 speed gearbox and the body was a two seater.  Just under 1,000 CGSS models were made and then in 1929 the great depression killed the marque.  Like other Amilcars the CGSS was raced including in major events such as the Mille Miglia.   It should also be mentioned that the famous American dancer, Isadora Duncan, was killed in 1927 as a passenger in  an Amilcar CGSS when her scarf caught in  the real wheels of the car in Nice.   This late model and original CGSS was sold for Euro 83,000 at the Artcurial Auction.

PBR Proto

Alain Bonnet, PBR Proto, Course de Cote d'Etretat-Bénouville 2016.

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PBR, France.  I have seen this pretty little car at a number of hillclimbs and slaloms.  It has its own facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/sportprotopbr/posts - but otherwise I can't find out much about it on the web.   Currently, I am assuming this is a homemade racer with an engine less than 1,600cc.  Perhaps it was originally made before 2004 as it is accepted into Class CNF1. 

Audi TT Cup Car

Niclaus Nielsen, Audi Sport TT, Zandvoort 2016.

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Audi, Ingolstadt, Germany.   The first generation of the Audi TT was introduced in 1998 and the third generation made its first appearance in 2014. The Audi TT Cup Car uses the 310 hp 2 litre 4 cylinder TFSI engine from the Audi TTS.  The bodyshell of the TT Cup car is lightweight and made of aluminium and carbon fibre.  A specific one-make racing series is held for these cars with races on circuits such as Hockenheim, Zandvoort, Budapest, Norisring and Nurburgring,

1938 Peugeot Spécial Sport 402 Roadster Darl'mat

1938 Peugeot Spécial Sport 402 Roadster Darl'mat - RetroMobile 2016.

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Peugeot, Sochaux, France.  This very desirable Peugeot is built on the 402 Legere chassis and has a 2 litre 4 cylinder engine and was the vision of Emile Darl'mat.  His vision was to have a comfortable, fast car that didn't cost a fortune.  The bodywork was by Georges Paulin and Marcel Pourtout.  The car in the photograph is right hand drive and participated in a number of speed events between 1939 and 1948 including at Goodwood and the Brighton Speed Trials.   Other cars participated at Le Mans in 1937 and 1938 and won their class.