Peugeot 402 Pourtout Cabriolet

The irony is that the world is probably the rarest Peugeot-ja, the 1937 production, made in a single copy 402 Portout Cabriolet was sold in a country (the United States), where the brand is currently not present - though it soon may change .

Style Paquebot: This is what the Art Déco machines inspired, a streamlining variety in the thirties. However, the trend in America, but even to Scandinavia , was too modern, rigid and impersonal for many: thanks to them, they did not miss the masters of renowned body building.

At Peugeot, the 402 (1935-1942) represented the former line, Émile Darl'mat and Marcel Pourtou were added to the latter's camp. The two competing bodywork masters often worked together, giving them (more precisely, their common discoverer, Georges Paulin) the Eclipse runnable hardtop, but their style was fundamentally different. The compact, athletic tone of the Peugeot 402 Darl'mat roadsters focused on the dynamism of the type, but Marcel Pourtout reinterpreted the current-style doctrine as an airy elegance convertible.

Carrosserie Pourtout's work was based on the longest chassis of the 402. The headlamps were lifted out of the refrigerator mask and placed in a torpedo socket. The car's rounded nose is proud, it has been replaced by a steep lattice, and the fenders have been given more emphasis, so they proclaim the principles of Art Déco as a manifesto. The long-lasting casing of the rear wheels gave the car an aristocratic ratio, where Marcel Pourtout withdrew from the Eclipse roof with good sensation and covered a tight canvas over the short passenger compartment and the particularly low windscreen.

The Peugeot 402 Pourtout Cabriolet, without exaggeration, was one of the most harmonious car designs of the era, which today could be the treasured treasure of collectors when it comes to serial production. It didn't come out, who knows why, just one copy of this masterpiece. It is no less mysterious to see why the smaller 55-horsepower engine of the series was built into a luxury luxury yacht based on a 333-centimeter wheelbase, but the black-gray, chrome-rich car was capable of speeding over 110 kilometers per hour.

The car's gear was a four-speed Cotal unit, which was not only made special by its automatic clutch, but also because it was a separate reverser, so in the reversal it was possible to choose between the four gears in a thickly cushioned seat in a wood-based environment.

It is a little wonder that the World War II did not take the only copy of the Peugeot 402 Pourtout Cabriolet, and it is incredibly unbelievable that it has survived the decades that followed. In the 1980s, he became a wealthy North American collector, and his next owner in 2007 was fully restored.

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