C27 (1934)
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C27 (1934)
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Gabriel Voisin presented a new sports model, the C27, in 1934. Based on a shortened C25 chassis with a more powerful engine, only two examples were built. The first was a cabriolet ordered by the then Shah of Persia, who commissioned the celebrated society coachbuilder Joseph Figoni to dress the chassis. This car underwent a major restoration in France in the eighties, when it was refinished in the two-tone blue livery seen here. |
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The C27 Figoni at the CIA museum in Pantin...
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Since then it has been restored once again in the USA in its original yellow over black colour scheme, complete with chromed wheels. The history of the other C27 - a strikingly distinctive factory-bodied coupé with a sliding roof retracting into the space behind the cockpit - is less clear-cut. Called the Aérosport (a name famously reused later for the pontoon-bodied C28) and catalogued with the code name Ski, the car was first owned by the man principally responsible for designing it, André Noel (Noel-Noel). The car disappeared after the war, until... |
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...before its new restoration
in the USA.
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 A beautiful car, far away from Voisin's ideas |
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