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Facel Vega

March 20, 2023

For other uses, see Vega (disambiguation).

Coordinates: 48°55′54″N 2°15′12″E / 48.9316256°N 2.2533799°E / 48.9316256; 2.2533799

Facel S.A. was a French manufacturer of pressed steel automobile components, later complete automobiles of their own design.

Facel SA
IndustryAutomotive
FoundedFacel SA 1939
DefunctOctober 1964
Fateclosed
HeadquartersChaillot, Paris, France
Key people
Jean Daninos
ProductsAutomobiles from 1954

To intensify its World War II war effort, French subcontracting company for military aeronautics Bronzavia created a subsidiary called Facel (acronym of Forges et Ateliers de Constructions d'Eure-et-Loir) in December 1939. After the war, in 1945, by merging with Métallon, Facel began to make short-run special bodies, coupés or cabriolets for Simca, Ford of France, Panhard and Delahaye. Approximately 2,900 cars of all models were hand-built in Facel's short life.[1]

Unitary bodies without a chassis became general for mass-produced cars, and Facel lost its big customers. French niche manufacturers ceased production. Métallon left the partnership in 1953, and Facel set about designing and making its own complete cars using engines made by Chrysler, Volvo and Austin. Its first design, named Vega, was shown to the public in 1954.

The Facellia model, introduced in 1959, was under-developed, and losses brought about by its warranty problems became impossible to recoup. Prior to closure, Facel had been placed under the control of Sud Aviation subsidiary SFERMA (Société Française d'Entretien et de Réparation de Matériel Aéronautique). Though initially successful, Facel closed its factory in October 1964.

Business history

Facel was founded on 20 December 1939 by Bronzavia, a French manufacturer of military aircraft, to make special components. Marcel Koehler (formerly of motorcycle manufacturer Koehler-Escoffier) directed Facel from 1939 to 1945. He gave way to Jean Daninos when he returned from the United States, summoned by Henri Feuillée, the ex-boss of Bronzavia and a large shareholder of Facel. Jean Daninos had begun his career with Citroen, where he assisted in the design of the Traction coupés and cabriolets. He moved to Morane-Saulnier, then in 1937 to Bronzavia as technical director. During WWII he worked in the US with General Aircraft, which was using Bronzavia patents, but he returned in 1945 and took charge of Facel. Daninos merged Facel with Metallon, a tie maintained until January 1953.[2]

Coachwork provider

Daninos had Facel begin manufacturing short-run and special complete finished bodies for the major French brands. In conjunction with l'Aluminium Français Facel designed the all-aluminium alloy Panhard Dyna X and then built around 45,000 examples for Panhard.[2] The body work assembly division was established in 1948. It made various models of Simca Sport and drew publicity by designing with Farina and then building a special body on a Bentley Mark VI chassis. The car was named the Bentley Cresta. The exercise was repeated in 1951 and named Cresta II. September 1951 saw the introduction of its Ford Comète. Production of the Comète ended in 1955 when Simca took over Ford France. The styling of the Crestas and Comètes was developed into the shape of the first Vega.[2]

Scooter bodies, truck bodies, tractor bodies, jeeps and smaller components

During the same period Facel-Metallon pressed out body panels for Delahaye's army jeeps (painted and upholstered); Simca, Delahaye and Somua's trucks (painted and upholstered); scooters by Vespa, Piaggio and Motobécane; tractors by Massey Ferguson; and stainless-steel bumpers, hubcaps and grilles for Simca/Ford and for Renault.[2]

Aviation

In conjunction with Hispano-Suiza, Facel-Metallon and Facel also turned out combustion chambers in special metals for Rolls-Royce jet engines.[2]

Facel Vega

 
Facel-Metallon bodied 1951 Bentley Mark VI

The Facel Vega marque was created on 22 July 1954 by Jean Daninos, (brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos, who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thompson), although the Facel company had been established by the Bronzavia Company in 1939 as a subcontracting company for the aviation industry. FACEL (Forges et Ateliers de Construction d'Eure-et-Loir, in English: forge and construction workshop of the department of Eure-et-Loir) was initially a metal-stamping company but it expanded into car manufacturing in the early 1950s.[3] Facel entered the automobile business as a supplier of special bodies for Panhard, Delahaye and Simca. The company was headquartered in Paris at 19, Avenue George V, and had the main assembly factory in Colombes at 132 Boulevard de Valmy, with parts supplied from the outskirts of the city in Amboise, Dreux and Puteaux.[4][5]

Facel Vega FV, HK500 and Facel Vega II

Main article: Facel Vega FV
Main article: Facel Vega Excellence
Main article: Facel Vega Facel II
 
Facel Vega HK500 1961

The Vega production cars (FV, later and more famously the HK500) first appeared in October 1954 at the Salon de l'Automobile Paris using Chrysler V8 engines because no French company at the time produced an engine that met the company's objectives. Initially, a 276 cu in (4.5 L) DeSoto Hemi engine was installed, while the overall engineering was straightforward, with a tubular chassis, double wishbone suspension at the front and a live axle at the back, as in standard American practice. They were also as heavy as American cars, at about 1,800 kg (3,968 lb). Performance was brisk, with a top speed of around 190 km/h (118 mph) and 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just under 10 seconds.

Most cars were two-door hardtops with no centre pillar, but a few convertibles were built for special customers (including Daninos' wife: eleven of the FV series and a single HK500 were drop tops, out of 842 built in total) in spite of Daninos dislike of the bodystyle due to its lack of structural rigidity.[6] Fully 77 percent of the production was exported, due to the punitive Tax horsepower system in France.[3]

The 1956 model was improved with a bigger 331 cu in (5.4 L) Chrysler Hemi engine and updated transmission and other mechanicals. In the same year production began of a four-door model, the Excellence, with rear-hinged doors (suicide doors) at the back and no centre pillar. The pillarless design unfortunately made it less rigid and the handling was thus poorer than that of the two-door cars, and surviving examples are rare.

1959 models had even bigger engines, a 5.8 L (354 cu in) and later a 6.28 L (383 cu in) Chrysler Typhoon engine, and were quite a bit faster despite their extra weight. The final evolution of the V8 models came in 1962 with the Facel Vega II, which was lighter, with sleeker, more modern lines, substantially faster, and famously elegant.

Facellia

 
Facellia F2, 1961 to 1963
 
Facel III

In 1960, Facel entered the sports car market with the Facellia, with a premiere at the Paris Motor Show in 1959. It was a small car similar in size to the then popular Mercedes 190SL. Facellias were advertised in three body styles: cabriolet, 2+2 coupé and 4-seat coupé — all with the same mechanical parts and a 2,450 mm (96.5 in) wheelbase. Styling was similar to the Facel HK500, but with rather elegant (though fingernail-breaking) flush door handles. Following Facel Vega's demise several of M Daninos's styling cues were "borrowed" by Mercedes-Benz.[citation needed] Prices were roughly US$4,000 for the Facellia ($36,639 in 2021 dollars [7]), US$5,500 for the Facel III ($45,799 in 2021 dollars [7]) and US$6,000 for the Facel 6 ($54,958 in 2021 dollars [7]).[8]

With the idea of creating a mass-produced all-French sports car competing with the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, the Triumph TR3 and Porsche 356B, Facel moved away from Chrysler engines because Chrysler didn't offer a four-cylinder engine at the time. Instead, the Facellia had a four-cylinder 1.6 L twin-cam engine designed by former Talbot-Lago chief engineer Carlo Machetti, who won at Le Mans, along with the advice of famed English cylinder-head guru Harry Weslake,[9][10] and built in France by Paul Cavallier of the Pont-à-Mousson company (which already provided manual gear boxes for the company's larger models) so as to be compliant with the punitive French horsepower tax system and increase sales.[3] The engine had only two bearings supporting each camshaft, using special steels, as opposed to the usual four or five. Despite the metallurgical experience of Pont-à-Mousson, this resulted in excessive flex, timing problems, and frequent engine failures.

Famed engineers Charles Deutsch and Jean Bertin were called in to solve the issues, but it was not enough and the engine was pronounced a disaster and the Facellia with it.[11] The updated Facellia F2 was presented at the March 1961 Geneva Motor Show. Company president, Jean Daninos having been obliged to resign in August 1961 in response to the company's financial problems, the new boss, a former oil company executive called André Belin, gave strict instructions to the after-sales department to respond to customer complaints about broken Facellia engines by replacing the units free of charge without creating "difficulties".[12] The strategy was intended to restore confidence among the company's customer base.[12] It would certainly have created a large hole in the income statement under the "warranty costs" heading, but it may have been too late for customer confidence.

Volvo engine

The troublesome powerplant was replaced with a Volvo B18 engine in the Facel III, but the damage was done. Production was stopped in 1963 and despite the vision of it being a "volume" car, only 1,100 were produced - still enough to make this Facel's highest production number. Facel lost money on every car they built, with the luxury car side of the company being supported entirely by the other work done by Facel Metallon.[citation needed]

The small Facellia met with little success and the losses from this, due to strong competition at the luxury end of the market, killed off the business which closed its doors at the end of October 1964. What was, according to some, the best small Facel, the Facel 6, which used an Austin-Healey 2.8-litre engine, came too late to save the company with fewer than 30 having been produced when the financial guarantors withdrew their support.

Prominence

Prominent owners of Facel Vegas (mainly of Facel IIs) included Pablo Picasso, Ava Gardner, Christian Dior, Herb Alpert, Joan Collins, Ringo Starr, Max Factor Jr, Joan Fontaine, Stirling Moss, Tony Curtis, several Saudi princes, Dean Martin, Fred Astaire, Danny Kaye, Louis Malle, The President of Mexico, François Truffaut, Robert Wagner, Anthony Quinn, Hassan II, King of Morocco, Debbie Reynolds, the Shah of Iran, Frank Sinatra, Maurice Trintignant, Brian Rix, Joe Hepworth and French Embassies around the world.[13][14][15] Race-car driver Stirling Moss would drive his HK500 from event to event rather than fly.

French writer and Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus died in a Facel Vega FV2 driven by his publisher's nephew, Michel Gallimard.[16] At the time of his death, Camus had planned to travel by train, with his wife and children, but at the last minute accepted Gallimard's proposal to travel with him instead.[17]

Models

References

  1. ^ "Brand History - Facel Vega Facellia Convertible -". Gem on Wheels. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e The Story Facel-Vega by Amicale Facel Vega. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Sedgwick, Michael. "The Facel Vega 1954 - 1964".
  4. ^ "American In Paris: Dana's Dad Ordered this '63 Facel in France". The Transmission. The Transmission. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Facel Vega founder Jean Daninos vainly hoped his modified personal 1960 Facellia 2+2 could save the company". Hemmings. American City Business Journals. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  6. ^ Bonnafous, Gilles (October 2008). "Un parcours limpide" [A clear course]. Rétroviseur (in French). No. 238. Fontainebleau, France: Éditions LVA. p. 50. ISSN 0992-5007.
  7. ^ a b c 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  8. ^ "New Car Prices and Used Car Book Values". NADAguides. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  9. ^ Horton, Chris. The Encyclopedia of the Car. p. 224. ISBN 1 840670533.
  10. ^ "Marque Time - Facel Vega". The Irish Times. 29 September 2004. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  11. ^ Björklund, Bengt, ed. (March 1962). "Från skilda fronter" [From different fronts]. Illustrerad Motor Sport (in Swedish). No. 3. Lerum, Sweden. p. 28.
  12. ^ a b "Automobilia". Toutes les voitures françaises 1962 (salon Paris oct 1961). Paris: Histoire & collections. Nr. 19: Page 34. 1200.
  13. ^ Hervé Alphand, the French Ambassador to the United States, used theirs, an Excellence, from 1956 to 1965. It was sold @ Bonhams in Philadelphia 8 Oct 2012 for $159,000.
  14. ^ "Top Gear Facel Vega HK500". YouTube. 2009-07-26. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  15. ^ Tegler, Eric (March 1, 2007). "1959 Facel Vega HK500: For the Few Who Own the Finest". Autoweek.
  16. ^ Smith, Patrick (2014-12-21), Lost Star Cars: The Albert Camus Facel Vega, retrieved 2021-04-19
  17. ^ . Raimes.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-17.

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For other uses see Vega disambiguation Coordinates 48 55 54 N 2 15 12 E 48 9316256 N 2 2533799 E 48 9316256 2 2533799 Facel S A was a French manufacturer of pressed steel automobile components later complete automobiles of their own design Facel SAIndustryAutomotiveFoundedFacel SA 1939DefunctOctober 1964FateclosedHeadquartersChaillot Paris FranceKey peopleJean DaninosProductsAutomobiles from 1954To intensify its World War II war effort French subcontracting company for military aeronautics Bronzavia created a subsidiary called Facel acronym of Forges et Ateliers de Constructions d Eure et Loir in December 1939 After the war in 1945 by merging with Metallon Facel began to make short run special bodies coupes or cabriolets for Simca Ford of France Panhard and Delahaye Approximately 2 900 cars of all models were hand built in Facel s short life 1 Unitary bodies without a chassis became general for mass produced cars and Facel lost its big customers French niche manufacturers ceased production Metallon left the partnership in 1953 and Facel set about designing and making its own complete cars using engines made by Chrysler Volvo and Austin Its first design named Vega was shown to the public in 1954 The Facellia model introduced in 1959 was under developed and losses brought about by its warranty problems became impossible to recoup Prior to closure Facel had been placed under the control of Sud Aviation subsidiary SFERMA Societe Francaise d Entretien et de Reparation de Materiel Aeronautique Though initially successful Facel closed its factory in October 1964 Contents 1 Business history 2 Facel Vega 2 1 Facel Vega FV HK500 and Facel Vega II 2 2 Facellia 2 3 Prominence 2 4 Models 3 References 4 External linksBusiness history EditFacel was founded on 20 December 1939 by Bronzavia a French manufacturer of military aircraft to make special components Marcel Koehler formerly of motorcycle manufacturer Koehler Escoffier directed Facel from 1939 to 1945 He gave way to Jean Daninos when he returned from the United States summoned by Henri Feuillee the ex boss of Bronzavia and a large shareholder of Facel Jean Daninos had begun his career with Citroen where he assisted in the design of the Traction coupes and cabriolets He moved to Morane Saulnier then in 1937 to Bronzavia as technical director During WWII he worked in the US with General Aircraft which was using Bronzavia patents but he returned in 1945 and took charge of Facel Daninos merged Facel with Metallon a tie maintained until January 1953 2 Coachwork providerDaninos had Facel begin manufacturing short run and special complete finished bodies for the major French brands In conjunction with l Aluminium Francais Facel designed the all aluminium alloy Panhard Dyna X and then built around 45 000 examples for Panhard 2 The body work assembly division was established in 1948 It made various models of Simca Sport and drew publicity by designing with Farina and then building a special body on a Bentley Mark VI chassis The car was named the Bentley Cresta The exercise was repeated in 1951 and named Cresta II September 1951 saw the introduction of its Ford Comete Production of the Comete ended in 1955 when Simca took over Ford France The styling of the Crestas and Cometes was developed into the shape of the first Vega 2 Scooter bodies truck bodies tractor bodies jeeps and smaller componentsDuring the same period Facel Metallon pressed out body panels for Delahaye s army jeeps painted and upholstered Simca Delahaye and Somua s trucks painted and upholstered scooters by Vespa Piaggio and Motobecane tractors by Massey Ferguson and stainless steel bumpers hubcaps and grilles for Simca Ford and for Renault 2 AviationIn conjunction with Hispano Suiza Facel Metallon and Facel also turned out combustion chambers in special metals for Rolls Royce jet engines 2 Postwar Coupes and Cabriolets manufactured by Facel for other automakers Panhard Dyna X decapotable Simca 8 sport cabriolet Ford Comete coupe Simca 9 sport coupe Simca Aronde coupeFacel Vega Edit Facel Metallon bodied 1951 Bentley Mark VI The Facel Vega marque was created on 22 July 1954 by Jean Daninos brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thompson although the Facel company had been established by the Bronzavia Company in 1939 as a subcontracting company for the aviation industry FACEL Forges et Ateliers de Construction d Eure et Loir in English forge and construction workshop of the department of Eure et Loir was initially a metal stamping company but it expanded into car manufacturing in the early 1950s 3 Facel entered the automobile business as a supplier of special bodies for Panhard Delahaye and Simca The company was headquartered in Paris at 19 Avenue George V and had the main assembly factory in Colombes at 132 Boulevard de Valmy with parts supplied from the outskirts of the city in Amboise Dreux and Puteaux 4 5 Facel Vega FV HK500 and Facel Vega II Edit Main article Facel Vega FV Main article Facel Vega Excellence Main article Facel Vega Facel II Facel Vega HK500 1961 The Vega production cars FV later and more famously the HK500 first appeared in October 1954 at the Salon de l Automobile Paris using Chrysler V8 engines because no French company at the time produced an engine that met the company s objectives Initially a 276 cu in 4 5 L DeSoto Hemi engine was installed while the overall engineering was straightforward with a tubular chassis double wishbone suspension at the front and a live axle at the back as in standard American practice They were also as heavy as American cars at about 1 800 kg 3 968 lb Performance was brisk with a top speed of around 190 km h 118 mph and 0 to 100 km h 62 mph in just under 10 seconds Most cars were two door hardtops with no centre pillar but a few convertibles were built for special customers including Daninos wife eleven of the FV series and a single HK500 were drop tops out of 842 built in total in spite of Daninos dislike of the bodystyle due to its lack of structural rigidity 6 Fully 77 percent of the production was exported due to the punitive Tax horsepower system in France 3 The 1956 model was improved with a bigger 331 cu in 5 4 L Chrysler Hemi engine and updated transmission and other mechanicals In the same year production began of a four door model the Excellence with rear hinged doors suicide doors at the back and no centre pillar The pillarless design unfortunately made it less rigid and the handling was thus poorer than that of the two door cars and surviving examples are rare 1959 models had even bigger engines a 5 8 L 354 cu in and later a 6 28 L 383 cu in Chrysler Typhoon engine and were quite a bit faster despite their extra weight The final evolution of the V8 models came in 1962 with the Facel Vega II which was lighter with sleeker more modern lines substantially faster and famously elegant Facellia Edit Facellia F2 1961 to 1963 Facel III In 1960 Facel entered the sports car market with the Facellia with a premiere at the Paris Motor Show in 1959 It was a small car similar in size to the then popular Mercedes 190SL Facellias were advertised in three body styles cabriolet 2 2 coupe and 4 seat coupe all with the same mechanical parts and a 2 450 mm 96 5 in wheelbase Styling was similar to the Facel HK500 but with rather elegant though fingernail breaking flush door handles Following Facel Vega s demise several of M Daninos s styling cues were borrowed by Mercedes Benz citation needed Prices were roughly US 4 000 for the Facellia 36 639 in 2021 dollars 7 US 5 500 for the Facel III 45 799 in 2021 dollars 7 and US 6 000 for the Facel 6 54 958 in 2021 dollars 7 8 With the idea of creating a mass produced all French sports car competing with the Alfa Romeo Giulietta the Triumph TR3 and Porsche 356B Facel moved away from Chrysler engines because Chrysler didn t offer a four cylinder engine at the time Instead the Facellia had a four cylinder 1 6 L twin cam engine designed by former Talbot Lago chief engineer Carlo Machetti who won at Le Mans along with the advice of famed English cylinder head guru Harry Weslake 9 10 and built in France by Paul Cavallier of the Pont a Mousson company which already provided manual gear boxes for the company s larger models so as to be compliant with the punitive French horsepower tax system and increase sales 3 The engine had only two bearings supporting each camshaft using special steels as opposed to the usual four or five Despite the metallurgical experience of Pont a Mousson this resulted in excessive flex timing problems and frequent engine failures Famed engineers Charles Deutsch and Jean Bertin were called in to solve the issues but it was not enough and the engine was pronounced a disaster and the Facellia with it 11 The updated Facellia F2 was presented at the March 1961 Geneva Motor Show Company president Jean Daninos having been obliged to resign in August 1961 in response to the company s financial problems the new boss a former oil company executive called Andre Belin gave strict instructions to the after sales department to respond to customer complaints about broken Facellia engines by replacing the units free of charge without creating difficulties 12 The strategy was intended to restore confidence among the company s customer base 12 It would certainly have created a large hole in the income statement under the warranty costs heading but it may have been too late for customer confidence Volvo engineThe troublesome powerplant was replaced with a Volvo B18 engine in the Facel III but the damage was done Production was stopped in 1963 and despite the vision of it being a volume car only 1 100 were produced still enough to make this Facel s highest production number Facel lost money on every car they built with the luxury car side of the company being supported entirely by the other work done by Facel Metallon citation needed The small Facellia met with little success and the losses from this due to strong competition at the luxury end of the market killed off the business which closed its doors at the end of October 1964 What was according to some the best small Facel the Facel 6 which used an Austin Healey 2 8 litre engine came too late to save the company with fewer than 30 having been produced when the financial guarantors withdrew their support Prominence Edit Prominent owners of Facel Vegas mainly of Facel IIs included Pablo Picasso Ava Gardner Christian Dior Herb Alpert Joan Collins Ringo Starr Max Factor Jr Joan Fontaine Stirling Moss Tony Curtis several Saudi princes Dean Martin Fred Astaire Danny Kaye Louis Malle The President of Mexico Francois Truffaut Robert Wagner Anthony Quinn Hassan II King of Morocco Debbie Reynolds the Shah of Iran Frank Sinatra Maurice Trintignant Brian Rix Joe Hepworth and French Embassies around the world 13 14 15 Race car driver Stirling Moss would drive his HK500 from event to event rather than fly French writer and Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus died in a Facel Vega FV2 driven by his publisher s nephew Michel Gallimard 16 At the time of his death Camus had planned to travel by train with his wife and children but at the last minute accepted Gallimard s proposal to travel with him instead 17 Models Edit Facel Vega FV Facel Vega HK500 Facel Vega II Facel Vega Excellence Facel Vega Facellia Facel III Facel 6References Edit Brand History Facel Vega Facellia Convertible Gem on Wheels Retrieved August 26 2019 a b c d e The Story Facel Vega by Amicale Facel Vega Retrieved April 13 2020 a b c Sedgwick Michael The Facel Vega 1954 1964 American In Paris Dana s Dad Ordered this 63 Facel in France The Transmission The Transmission Retrieved 15 August 2021 Facel Vega founder Jean Daninos vainly hoped his modified personal 1960 Facellia 2 2 could save the company Hemmings American City Business Journals Retrieved 16 August 2021 Bonnafous Gilles October 2008 Un parcours limpide A clear course Retroviseur in French No 238 Fontainebleau France Editions LVA p 50 ISSN 0992 5007 a b c 1634 1699 McCusker J J 1997 How Much Is That in Real Money A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States Addenda et Corrigenda PDF American Antiquarian Society 1700 1799 McCusker J J 1992 How Much Is That in Real Money A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States PDF American Antiquarian Society 1800 present Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Consumer Price Index estimate 1800 Retrieved April 16 2022 New Car Prices and Used Car Book Values NADAguides Retrieved 2016 05 15 Horton Chris The Encyclopedia of the Car p 224 ISBN 1 840670533 Marque Time Facel Vega The Irish Times 29 September 2004 Retrieved 4 March 2021 Bjorklund Bengt ed March 1962 Fran skilda fronter From different fronts Illustrerad Motor Sport in Swedish No 3 Lerum Sweden p 28 a b Automobilia Toutes les voitures francaises 1962 salon Paris oct 1961 Paris Histoire amp collections Nr 19 Page 34 1200 Herve Alphand the French Ambassador to the United States used theirs an Excellence from 1956 to 1965 It was sold Bonhams in Philadelphia 8 Oct 2012 for 159 000 Top Gear Facel Vega HK500 YouTube 2009 07 26 Archived from the original on 2021 12 11 Retrieved 2016 05 15 Tegler Eric March 1 2007 1959 Facel Vega HK500 For the Few Who Own the Finest Autoweek Smith Patrick 2014 12 21 Lost Star Cars The Albert Camus Facel Vega retrieved 2021 04 19 KIAD MA in Fine Art a student run seminar Raimes com Archived from the original on May 13 2009 Retrieved 2009 10 17 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Facel S A The Facel Vega Home Page Facel Vega Club Germany Spare Parts Motorbase profile Facel Vega article on Allpar Retro Website about Facel Vega Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Facel Vega amp oldid 1143262570, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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