Today I discovered Panhard (pics)

^That^ looks like a cross between your car and a Porsche 356. That's not a bad thing. ;D


^That^ is where Fiat got their idea for the Barchetta door handles which are such a lovely, stylish and tactile thing to use compared to conventional door handles.

VV Barchetta handle VV


Thanks for posting those up. New to me as well and I'm in total agreement on the '24'....such a beautiful car. I had a little off moment when I browsed over the shots of the cream one and the green one.

and this racer is the SEX! thanks for sharing your discovery

I love Panhards, mad as a box of frogs (excuse the pun....).

Panhard were bought out by Citroen in 1965. The first job the new managment gave to the Panhard design team was to redesign the 2CV which had by then been in production for seventeen years. Their design proposal, after some fine-tuning by Citroen, was launched in August 1967 as the Dyane.
;D

One of the PC boys bought one a while back. This was it at the Stoneleigh resto show in '08, having been transported sideways in a van.

They're an aluminium monocoque and I thought the best thing to do with this shell would have been to sit it one a suitably modified aircooled VW floorpan ;D



Any news on this one Mr Jones?

Do love the DB cars too. Just looked it up on Wiki and while they were based on Panhard mechanicals they were made by a separate company.

Here's one we saw at Retromobile also in '08 which is where I firest learnt of their existence.



and I think this is also one, displaying some beautiful restoration work.

got an aston thing about the windows on the one on the ramp

dynas and pl s rocketh

i remember that one dude, that patina'd red is what i think of now when ever panhard crops up. tried getting my dad interested in that auction, got close but he didnt bite. stairway denied

Panhard et Levassor ?...
Systeme Panhard (front-engine, gearbox & rear diferential) they were an oooold company !
"horseless" vehicles in 1888, unavoidable in any "history of the car" type book.
Nice to hear the name still "soldiers" on.


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Dynamic

Saw the need to downsize post war & bought into Jean Grégoire's AFG (Aluminium Français Grégoire) Dyna design first exhibited in 1946.
became the Panhard Dyna X



Always liked the aero-styled Panhard Dyna Z, 1954



Shame the scrapers must have loved them with all that alloy & Panhard switched to steel floorpan so they could offer a cabriolet version & cut costs for the PL.
The lightweight alloy must have helped popularity for sporting offerings like the Panhard-based Deutsch Bonnets & their competition success.

Obviously market competition must have been tough since their product can't have been that cheap, Dyna & PL were FWD 610-850cc air-cooled flat twin so comparisons to the Citroen 2cv would be hard to avoid!

Always liked the "big fat chrome front bumper/one piece opening front end combo" on these: