What happens to men's sports cars?

[Pascal HA PHAM]

Hello,



The bottom of the toy box of men's cars, look at this link religiously .... mind-blowing right?

http://www.nfscars.net/forum/showthread.php?t=26256

pascal

[Christophe]

1 abandoned sports car = 1 missing owner = 1 settlement of accounts

What is this model?


Finally a Mercedes that has a face !!

[Pascal HA PHAM]

For the vega HK 500 facel by Albert Camus it was a little more violent:

http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/v ... us.fr.html


brrrrrr & bloooom

And there ... at Le Mans, in 1955,
men's sports cars didn't make laughs at all .... but not at all ...

http://www.ina.fr/video/3991305001/1955 ... ns.fr.html

VW Karman Ghia "GREAT MUERTA"



Muira "little MUERTA"


Alfa "wheelbarrow"



Mazda "COSMOS goal" with rotary engine

[Pascal HA PHAM]

Wreck hunter
Bagger
In pictures
He was leaving
In the sweet vapors
From a factory
disused
sniffing
From here
burying
From the almost complete
The mechanical scent
From stories
Surrounded by mysteries
On spiders
Canvases
And stars
The tireless wrestler
Trochoid
No longer hiding
To chat
He will no longer seek the infernal cycle
He's there
He found it !
And he rice
Finally
In his bowl
He is 16h00
Doctor Wankel

A greasy smell
Metallic
Infuse the eyes

Did you doubt it?

" No "

Ha good!

Felix
It's teatime
Let's drink to your health






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Pascal of the brotherhood of the trochoid

[Christophe]

Pascal if you want to put photos, do not make screenshots that leave blanks in the photo, save it and put it on the host directly. That's all.

I have corrected your messages.

[elephant]

pascal said:

For the vega HK 500 facel by Albert Camus it was a little more violent

In fact, it was that of Michel Gallimard.

[Pascal HA PHAM]

quite Elephant,



the publisher had loaned his Facel to Albert Camus so that he could return from the French Riviera to Paris ..... instead of taking the train.

Another INA archive on this tragic event:

http://www.ina.fr/video/I09335535/mort- ... us.fr.html

The FACELs were manufactured in DREUX and at the time, they were the most beautiful and prestigious French sports cars ("FACEL 2" & "Excellence")

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[elephant]

To my knowledge, Michel Gallimard and Marcel Camus - who was driving - returned together to Paris by car and his dead both in the accident. His wife and children took the train.

[Pascal HA PHAM]

ha!

I always believed that Albert was alone in the car ...

hey, the same model of Facel wrecked "it breaks my heart":



A quick trip to Indianapolis .... for the road
in 1966?
go INA let's go .... GO & hang in there:

http://www.ina.fr/sport/auto-moto/video ... is.fr.html

And in 1964? : mortal !

http://www.ina.fr/sport/auto-moto/video ... is.fr.html

Post scriptum of 01 10 2010 concerning the accident of Albert CAMUS:

copies of articles:

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4th January 1960
National route number 5 between Sens and Fontainebleau
Albert Camus is killed in the Facel Véga led by Michel Gallimard. He was 43 years old.
Le Monde of January 6, 1960:

It was around 14:15 p.m. that the national road number 5, about twenty-four kilometers from Sens, between Champigny sur Yonne and Villeneuve la Guyard, occurred the accident that cost the life of Albert Camus. The car, a Facel Vega, was headed for Paris. The writer was at the front, next to the driver Mr. Michel Gallimard. According to initial reports, the powerful automobile which was traveling at a very fast speed - 130 kilometers an hour according to some - suddenly left the middle of the road, straight ahead there, to crash against a tree at right of the road. Under the violence of the shock the car broke up. Part of the engine was found to the left of the road, about twenty meters away, with the grille and the headlights. Debris from the dashboard and doors was thrown into the fields within a radius of about thirty meters. The chassis twisted against the shaft. According to the first findings of the gendarmerie, the accident was caused by the bursting of a left tire, but this version is not yet confirmed. It is not impossible that the driver had discomfort.

Questions raised by editorialists:

Albert Camus was a passenger in a luxury vehicle whose hybrid character combining a powerful and heavy American engine with a body of European design was an oddity in the history of the automobile. The role of a mechanical accident has been mentioned to explain this accident, no objective finding has proven it. The improvised nature of the return by car to Paris, Camus had bought his train ticket before Gallimard's proposal, seems to make this accident a manifestation of destiny in its most random expression. However, elements which are not have helped destiny. Did it take an engine over a hundred horsepower to propel a car on the roads of 1960? would the four occupants have considered such a route with another slower vehicle?

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thank you Elephant for the details!

[Pascal HA PHAM]

Hello,

Exhibiting the relics of respectable sports cars or even visualizing what often happens when man drives them badly ... "misbehaves", road accidents ... this is not an end in itself.

On the other hand, to understand what has become of all these beautiful toys for men, what their macanic peculiarities were, their technical & economic shortcomings - we now say "ecological" - and why there will never be anything but marginal toys ....
so yes, this type of survey can become quite interesting:

"after the game, the reason"

an exemplary file: the shooting star from RENAULT.
we are at the beginning of the 50s:



two period archives:
Magnificent INA archive:
http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/v ... ne.fr.html

Sublime INA archive:
http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/v ... lt.fr.html


what has become of our national shooting star?
what condemned this type of engine?

with a strong twinge in the heart since I myself am a former designer of the Régie RENAULT (1970s to 1977)


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Pascal HA PHAM