"Jonee" (Jonee)
12/29/2014 at 15:02 • Filed to: REAC, Panhard
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"Jonee" (Jonee)
12/29/2014 at 15:02 • Filed to: REAC, Panhard | 1
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Sometimes I flip to a random entry in my giant Encyclopedia of the Automobile and share it with Oppo. This is one of those times.
R.E.A.C. stood for Recherches et d'Études Automobiles Chérifiennes. The company was based in Champigny-sur-Marne outside of Paris, but the cars were apparently built in Casablanca, Morocco where Ingrid Bergman once asked Sam to play that depressing song. Some Googling leads me to believe they were a racing club in Morocco that used modified Panhards that decided to try manufacturing cars.
The idea was to put a light, fiberglass sports car body on a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! chassis using the Panhard's mechanical stuff which at that time included a 40HP, 850cc two-cylinder powering the front wheels. The fiberglass body ended up weighing less than 200 lbs. so I guess 40 horses was enough. Only 15 cars were built as the whole enterprise proved too expensive, but they're pretty rad looking. Most of them were open bodied, but 3 coupes were built with gullwing doors and an almost round canopy.
I haven't found any current photos of one, so I wonder if any survived.
saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
> Jonee
12/29/2014 at 15:04 |
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That's an awesome book! I might need to grab a copy of it...
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Jonee
> saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
12/29/2014 at 15:07 |
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Mine's the G.N. Georgano one and it's a must have for any Jalop.
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saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
> Jonee
12/29/2014 at 15:09 |
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Ordered.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Jonee
12/29/2014 at 15:10 |
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I think I need that to supplement my World of Automobiles set...
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012…
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Jonee
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/29/2014 at 15:18 |
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It would make a good companion. I haven't seen one of those sets in years and it's about time I got my own.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Jonee
12/29/2014 at 15:46 |
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I had three volumes of the set floating around loose, so I knew what they were like, then I hit a full set at a library book sale for like $10. So value. Many instant purchase. Wow.
Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast
> Jonee
12/29/2014 at 16:10 |
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'1985 to the present' Are you Marty Mcfly?
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Jonee
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
12/29/2014 at 17:46 |
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Yeah, there's usually a few at auto swap meets for like 20 bucks.
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Jonee
> Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast
12/29/2014 at 17:50 |
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18 85. And "the present" in this case was like 1975, but who cares about cars built after that?
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Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast
> Jonee
12/30/2014 at 07:17 |
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Um...yeah, I had the wrong century. I have a headache from constant face palming. If you need me I'll be under that rock.