• Year of manufacture 
    1949
  • Mileage 
    21 804 km / 13 549 mi
  • Car type 
    Other
  • Lot number 
    1
  • Reference number 
    3139
  • Drive 
    LHD
  • Condition 
    Used
  • Exterior brand colour 
    other
  • Location
    Italy
  • Exterior colour 
    Other

Description

The sole survivor of two coupes built by Dubos Frères to this design

One of just 32 SWB T26 Grand Sport Chassis built, all with individually coachbuilt bodies

Direct descendant of the legendary prewar T150 C-SS, but with a more powerful 4.5-liter twin cam engine

Equipped with the original body, documented in period photographs

Retains its matching numbers chassis, engine, and transmission

Appeared in the 1949 Concours d'Elegance du Bois de Boulogne in Paris where it won a Grand Prix

Imported to America in the early 1950s, owned by famous racing driver and car importer Otto Zipper

Documented in Talbot-Lago Grand Sport: The Car from Paris by Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson

In the ownership of a well-known Talbot-Lago authority since the summer of 2009

Recent mechanical refurbishment, including complete renovation of the transmission and braking system


Broad Arrow Auctions
377, Fisher Road
Suite H
Grosse Pointe, MI 48230
United States
Contact Person Kontaktperson
First name 
Broad Arrow Group

Phone 
+1 (313) 312-0780