I recently inherited some car books, well I rescued the interesting looking ones before the rest went to the charity shop. Some aren't much use at the moment, but I am keeping the Jaguar XK140 and Austin Healey maintenance manuals for when I own such cars 
. However some of the more coffee table books have some interesting stuff in which I'll probably use to launch some (hopefully) interesting threads. One of the books is The Worlds Great Automotive Stylists, and it has some interesting stuff in it.
Jacques Brasseur is responsible for some of my favourite cars, namely the Facel Vega. What I didn't realise is that before he worked designing at Facel Vega he designed the Ford Vedette Comete. The what? I hear you say... indeed, I had to google it too.
The car was also built by Simca (such was the nature of the car industry then and now)
There is a little bit about them on Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Comète
Anyone know anything more? Anyone ever seen one in the flesh? Can anyone find one for sale now (I checked the usual sources...)
. However some of the more coffee table books have some interesting stuff in which I'll probably use to launch some (hopefully) interesting threads. One of the books is The Worlds Great Automotive Stylists, and it has some interesting stuff in it.Jacques Brasseur is responsible for some of my favourite cars, namely the Facel Vega. What I didn't realise is that before he worked designing at Facel Vega he designed the Ford Vedette Comete. The what? I hear you say... indeed, I had to google it too.
The car was also built by Simca (such was the nature of the car industry then and now)
There is a little bit about them on Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Comète
Anyone know anything more? Anyone ever seen one in the flesh? Can anyone find one for sale now (I checked the usual sources...)
