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**Porschinelle** · 02-22-2017, 01:56 AM

**356** · 02-22-2017, 02:39 PM

Always enjoy your posts Gerard. I found the history of the Michelin 904 absolutely fascinating.
~Vance

**roy mawbey** · 02-22-2017, 08:57 PM

Yes I agree, most interesting information. And some super photos. That 1950/51 fish silver split screen looks very nice too.

Forty odd years ago I honestly thought split screen 356 cars were as rare as hens teeth, just amazing now how many seem to turn up.

thanks

Roy

**Porschinelle** · 02-22-2017, 09:52 PM

Thanks Vance
thanks Roy

The 1950

metalized grey 356 PRE A split windscreen was offer for sale by the German historical cars broker Axel Schuette

**Porschinelle** · 02-22-2017, 10:01 PM

Always on Axel Schuette stand but also on many others as Mercedes Benz, Brabus the world famous Mercedes preparator, and liecht Brau up to 25 Mercedes 300 SL Gullwings or cabriolet and one of the Adenauer 600 SL berline

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**roy mawbey** · 02-23-2017, 05:33 PM

**neilbardsley** · 02-23-2017, 05:38 PM

axel schuette will not even show your their stock! That is how out of my price range it all is

http://axelschuette.de/en/stock/

**neilbardsley** · 02-23-2017, 05:48 PM

Originally posted by Porschinelle" post=37441

to win the 1960 Tour de France
Unfortunately he lost control of his bike in a sharp descent and fall in a precipice several meters below

He was seriously wounded and never succeed to recover his level
But he had a good insurance company and became very rich with nothing to do
His team manager named Raphael Geminiani (who was also a famous Cycling Champion) before to become team Manager of his own cycling team, was fond of car racing hence the idea given to Roger Riviere : buy you a racing car and try to become a Champion in a new sport
Unfortunately Roger Riviere had no qualities to drive a sport car and very quickly realised he will never be a champion
904-034 was then sold to a Clermont Ferrand mechanic who also was very quickly afraid by the 904 performances
Michelin tyres bought 904-034 as test car for their Ladoux test laboratory

Thank you for the story. I would of thought that driving a car fast was easy compared to descending the mountains at speed on a bike. However, maybe he wasn't happy to have another serious crash. Anything over 80kph starts to freak me out on the bike but some of the pro cyclists were clocked at 135+ kph during the Tour of Switzerland!

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**Porschinelle** · 02-23-2017, 11:29 PM

Some other exceptionnal cars

The ex-Kremer 917 K81 for the 1981 Le Mans 24 hours race

The Zurich broker Lukas Huni was presenting a fabulous collecton of Bugatti and Bentley's

**Porschinelle** · 02-23-2017, 11:41 PM

David Brown, Aston Martin owner were presenting the complete collection of their cars from the 1952 DB2 including the James Bond DB7 car

**Porschinelle** · 02-23-2017, 11:49 PM

**Porschinelle** · 02-24-2017, 01:39 AM

Another 2.7 RS touring sepia brown sold before the opening of the show

**Porschinelle** · 02-24-2017, 01:53 AM

**Porschinelle** · 02-24-2017, 08:51 PM

A ,last thing before to close this item
The largest hall (hall 1) of the Retromobile Car Show is the one where all the reknown European merchants are
On the left side of this hall (close to the entrance) you ay find a large selection of toys and litterature vendors
On the right side lay the artist corner with everything from the ugliest to the very top class
as this ferrari engine table support

these steel art sculptures

This half scale Delage race car in wood