Six appeal

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Clothed in a long, low-slung two-seater body, the car before you seems almost too dashing to be real. It has more of the air of something confected in the mind of John Buchan, or of Simon Templar’s ‘trim blue Furillac speedster’ than anything that could seriously be built and marketed in the austere reality of the physical world. But this car, as the sole complete survivor of the Omega-Six, is not quite mythical.

Omega-Six

Even the origins of Omega-Six have a somewhat fantastical bent. The car was the product of one of several ephemeral French marques, all remarkably similar in design and conception, which were the work of former Hispano-Suiza technical director Eugène Gadoux. As the name implies, the marque flung itself into the up-and-coming trend for small, sporty sixes.

With only the highest-quality materials used in its construction, the Omega-Six was as luxurious as it was genuinely sporting. A number of Omega-Sixes were raced, although its competition achievements were fairly modest. That was not really the point, though. Obscenely expensive and incomparably desirable, the Omega-Six was a car for the playboy and socialite, a high-class sports cruiser for swanning around the routes à corniche of southern France and winning adulation at all the most fashionable concours.

Few have managed to untangle the complicated story behind the Omega-Six marque, until now. Reg Winstone delves into the mystique of Omega-Six in the May issue of The Automobile, on sale now.

Text by Zack Stiling. Photographs by Mathieu Bonnevie.

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