Retro Photo (Anything Retro)

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The robust pick-up Peugeot
also named "camionnette bâchée" by the constructor (tarpaulined van?)


203

403

From 403 to 404 in 1967

404


504 is the last pick-up created by Peugeot. (1980 - 1996)
It is manufactured until 2005 in Nigeria!

 

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Peugeot 403 pick-up without the tarpaulin.

Panhard Dyna

Panhard 17

Simca Aronde is named Intendante in this version.

 

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In 1975, 12 years after the Aronde Intendante stopping, Simca present a 1100 pick-up model.


The range Simca 1100 utilitaries :
- Background, the VF1
- Left, the VF2
- Foreground, the pick-up

Two leisure vehicles assembled on a Simca 1100 pick-up base


Presented in 1977, Matra Simca Rancho (not too expensive to produce) was a marketing success. On a 1100 pick-up body lengthened at the rear, Matra put his own cell in resin polyester. The engine come from a Simca 1308 GT.

This photo of a Rancho convertible allow to see easily the limit Matra-Simca

Less famous, the Talbot Wind by Heuliez exhibited at Paris motorshow 1980.

 

[jeanlouis]

Citroën Traction 7B special finition "elegance contest" in summer 1934


"Deauville so near from Paris and so far from the sea!" said an humorist in the thirties. Jacqueline Citroën, the daughter of the constructor, presents a 7B roadster at the Deauville Elegance Contest (Normandy).

Jacqueline Citroën at the wheel of the roadster.


The range of the first Citroën Traction 7A/7B, spring-summer 1934

 

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Some cabriolets Delahaye in elegance contest


135 Chapron

135 Franay

135 M Antem

135 M Chapron presented by Simone Chapron, the daughter of the master bodyworker.

135 M Faget-Varnet

135 M Letourneur et Marchand

135 MS Guilloré



145 motor V12 Franay

175 Letourneur et Marchand

 

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Talbot in various elegance contest


Coach K74

Cabriolet K75

Saloon M75

Coach M78

Cabriolet MF75 Fulgur

Coach Chapron H75 RI superfulgur

Cabriolet Baby Sport

Coach Baby Sport

Roadster T150

Cabriolet Baby 3 liter

 

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Cabriolet Lago Special

Cabriolet Pourtout Lago Record

Cabriolet Graber Lago Grand Sport

Coupé Saoutchik Lago Grand Sport

Cabriolet Guilloré Lago Baby

Coupé Saoutchik Lago Grand Sport

Coupé Antem Lago Grand Sport

Coupé Lago Grand Sport

Cabriolet Franay Lago Grand Sport

 

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June 1939 : Renault to the elegance contest "Femina-L'Intran" at "Palais de Chaillot" Paris
(some weeks only before the war)


Convertible coach Suprastella

Cabriolet Suprastella

The young actress Micheline Presle beside a coupé Juvaquatre

Coupé Juvaquatre

Saloon 4 doors Juvaquatre (new model Renault)

Convertible coach Juvaquatre

Coupé Primaquatre Sport

Cabriolet Primaquatre Sport

 

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Cabriolet Primaquatre Sport Saprar bodyworked by Pourtout
Saprar is a new Renault subsidiary that will market some serie models with improved finition until the 4 CV.

Roadster Primaquatre Sport Saprar bodyworked by Pourtout

Cabriolet Primaquatre Sport Saprar bodyworked by Pourtout

Roadster Primaquatre Sport Saprar bodyworked by Pourtout

Cabriolet Viva Grand Sport

Cabriolet Viva Grand Sport

Coupé Viva Grand Sport

Cabriolet Viva Grand Sport

 

[jeanlouis]

Amilcar Compound Front Wheels Drive

Cadillac V8

Cadillac V16 by Duvivier

Chenard et Walcker Aigle 22 by Antem

Chenard et Walcker Aigle 4S above and Super Aigle 24 Front Wheels Drive below.

Citroën C6

 

[jeanlouis]

Cord L29 by Proux

Delage D8 by Chapron, radiator top by Lalique!

Delage D8 by Chapron

Delage D8 by Van den Plas

Delahaye 135 by Chapron

Delahaye 135 by Chapron

Delahaye 135 M by Franay

Delahaye 138 Sport by Antem

 

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Duesenberg J by Franay

Duesenberg J by Franay

Hispano-Suiza J12 by Franay

Hispano-Suiza K6 by Antem

Hotchkiss by Figoni et Falaschi

Jaguar MK10 3.8 liter

Jaguar XK140 by Ghia

Jaguar XK150 (with disk brakes, it is written on the plate)

 

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Kaiser Manhattan 1951

Mercedes SSK by Saoutchik

Panhard 6 DS

Panhard Panoramique

Peugeot 203 Darl'Mat Sport

Peugeot 302 Darl'Mat Sport

Peugeot 601 D Eclipse by Pourtout - single model owned by the French writer and movie director Marcel Pagnol.

 

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Renault 4 CV Autobleu above, Duriez below.

Renault Frégate cabriolet Letourneur et Marchand

Renault Primaquatre Sport Saprar by Pourtout

Renault Reinastella scaphandrier Kellner

Renault Nervasport

Rochet-Schneider

Rosengart Supertraction

Simca 6

Simca 9 aka Aronde

Talbot Lago Baby by Pourtout

 

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May 1985 : around 25 years after its disappearance, the elegance contest is reborn with the magazine Auto-Rétro.


Left : Leon Zitrone, TV journalist of this time, presents the contest.
Right : Harold Kay, radio host on Europe 1 and famous Jaguar amateur. Behind, Philippe Aubry the director of the magazine Auto-Rétro.

"La Garde Républicaine", the guest of this event.

The judges list.

 

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Harold Kay (1926 - 1990) : a marathonian of the microphone


From left to right : the humorist Michel Leeb, the host Harold Kay and the director of Auto-Rétro magazine Philippe Aubry.
Harold Kay commented five Auto-Rétro festivals more some "Coupe de l'Age d'Or" at Montlhéry. Anyway, he was more famous as radio/TV host.

The Jaguar MK2 3.8 liter of Harold Kay shoted by Dingo


Rétroviseur was the challenger and rival magazine of Auto-Rétro.

Some said that Harold Kay ordered the model exhibited on Jaguar stand at Paris Motorshow 1965. It was certainly his favorite car that he kept all his life.

 

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An ankle competition in London, 1930

 

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The day Sweden switched which side of the road they drive on, 1967

 

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A man tests a prototype football helmet, 1912

 

[gorgik9]

This is something I remember very well!!! I was 7 years old and had just begun my first year in school!!! :thumbs up: