THe SIMCA craze runs through the family. Here's a bit about my brother Kev's modified 1100. The SIMCA 1100 was launched in '67 as a 3 or 5 door hatch with an 1118cc transverse engine and torsion bar suspension all round. In 1970 the 1204 Special ( which shared the 1204cc engine with the SIMCA 1200S coupe) came out featuring a wilder cam and twin 36 DCNF Weber carbs. Only sold in the Uk for a year or so, it was replaced on the Continent by a 1294cc Ti using the same carb set up. In the UK we only ever got a single DCNF 1294 'Special'. THe 1204 and Ti' must have some claim to being among the first 'hot hatches'
Kev got a solid 1100GLX and has fitted a 1442 Chrysler/Talbot Alpine engine (a longer stroke version of the 1294) with the twin DCNF carbs fronm a MATRA Bagheera (which use the same engines). He also added Kent's version of the Rallye 3 race cam. SIMCA Spain actually made a 1442cc 1100TI (1200 for their market) later in the 70's so Kev's car is a sort of Spnish spec ti plus a bit...!!1 Wheels are 98pcd on the SIMCA and this one runs on a set of 6x14 Lancia alloys.
Group photo taken for a magazine article on 'whatever happened to SIMCA?' with the 1100GLX, Kev's MATRA-SIMCA Bagheera, my 1000 Rallye 2 and a Rancho from here in Chesterfield......
