Welcoming Lombard. (UPDATE--> Read More))

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This Friday -tomorrow- Bonhams will have a great auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This will include a number of cars collected by the late Max Lips, who started the renowned Dutch automuseum 'Lips Autotron'. One of the cars in the auction is this 1927 Lombard designed by racing driver André Lombard and built for him by Salmson (see Read More for Update), France. Only a few dozen of these cars have been built ever. The driver Dhome won the famous 24 hours single driver(!) Bol d'Or race of 1929 with a 'moyenne' of 77km/h. In this endurance race for both cars & motorcycles no driver exchange was permitted... Times have changed. Also the cars looked quite different then we often may think. Something to bear in mind when you restore a racing car of that era... For example, in the same Bonhams Goodwood auction is a very interesting lot between the automobilia. Check the condition of Bentley Old nr. 7 after another famous 24 hours: the 1927 Le Mans.... (photos courtesy Bonhams (UK)

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