Aronde - Le printemps de Simca (Top Model)
How can we forget the Aronde, a true success for the swallow company, but also an essential milestone in French automotive history? For decades, this sparkling car crisscrossed the roads of the world, dotting the landscape with brightly colored and often original variants! The collective memory still preserves its many variations with enchanting names such as Etoile, Elysée, Grand Large, Océane or Châtelaine...
Born on the first day of spring 1951, this bird of happiness quickly met with great success, raising Simca to the forefront of private car manufacturing in France for a time, before dying out for the 1964 vintage. But this car, in a different register over the years and kilometers, has established itself as the most emblematic model of the brand.
From the first prototype to the ultimate example, from the simple production sedans to the high-end models, from the workshops of master coachbuilders, through the astonishing utility, accessorized and "export" versions, from advertising records in rallies or recent escapades, from the laborious use to the fatal stunts, the long career of the Aronde is retraced in this work in a new and original way, giving great space to little-known documents, inever published before!
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Author: | Christian Cazé |
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Details: | 224 pages, 29 x 24 cm / 11.4 x 9 in, hardback |
Illustrations: | 804 b&w and colour photos |
Publisher: | ETAI (F, 2011) |
Series: | Top Model |
ISBN: | 9782726895702 |
Aronde - Le printemps de Simca
Language: French
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