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Retromobile 2024

Retromobile on the French Side

February 19, 2024 By pete

This Bugatti Type 35C is one of four cars entered by Bugatti in the 1927 Targa Florio. Its two-liter 8-cylinder, supercharged by a compressor, delivers 150 hp and allows it to reach a top speed of 225 km/h. During her rich career, she held the record for the Mont Ventoux hill climb for 4 years from 1928.

Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt

At Retromobile, it is often the Italian stars such as Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia or Lamborghini that generally occupy the most spectacular stands, which are those of major British dealers such as Fiskens, Girardo or Kidston. French cars are often less in the spotlight even if Bugattis or certain Delahayes can also reach unreasonable prices. But it is sometimes on small stands of brand clubs that less emblematic but perhaps more authentic cars are found. Let’s see here what Rétromobile offered us, on the French side. [Read more…] about Retromobile on the French Side

Tagged With: Amilcar, bnc, Bugatti Type 37, Bugatti Type 59, Cars at Retromobile, Chenard-Walcker, Grand Prix Delage, hugues van hoolandt, Retromobile 2024, Salmson, Voisin C28 Aerosport

Sharp at Retromobile, Part 1

February 12, 2024 By pete

1959 Lancia Flaminia Sport Zagato Sperimentale

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

With train strikes (again!) at home in the U.K., I was beginning to think that I would not make it to Paris this year. Then the French farmers decided to blockade the roads around Paris it was looking likely that if I did get Retromobile, I would find the exhibition halls empty, with all the delectable cars I had come to see stuck behind the farmer’s straw bale barriers.

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