1938 TalbotLago T150C Lago Speciale Teardrop Coupe by Figoni et Falaschi Sports & Classics

1939 TalbotLago T150C Coupe S107 Las Vegas 2018


Designed to resemble a water droplet ( goutte d'eau ), the car cuts through the air powered by a 4-liter, 6-cylinder engine (with three carburetors) generating 140 hp and enabling a top speed of.

1938 TalbotLago T150C Lago Speciale Teardrop Coupe by Figoni et Falaschi Sports & Classics


Talbot-Lago T150 At the Paris Motor Show in October 1934, Anthony Lago introduced the Talbot-Lago T150 Grand Sport wearing elegant coachwork designed by Joseph Figoni. Beneath its curvaceous bonnet was a robust inline six-cylinder engine developed by lead engineer Walter Becchia and the innovative Wilson four-speed pre-selector gearbox, for.

1937 TalbotLago T150CSS Teardrop Coupe Gooding & Company


$7,265,000 USD | Sold | Monterey, California Results Details Additional Information Chassis No. 90117 Documents US Title One of just 11 "New York" style Teardrop Coupes constructed by Talbot-Lago in 1937 and 1938, and the sole example known to have been commissioned with racing in mind

1939 TalbotLago T150 C Coupe Gooding & Company


World's most beautiful car up for sale By Mike Hanlon May 24, 2017 One of 14 extant 'Goutte d'Eau' Talbot-Lagos built by Paris-based Italian automotive couturier Giuseppe Figoni, this 1937.

1938 TalbotLago T150 C Cabriolet (front view) Post Vintage Paledog Photo Collection


handpicked classic 1938 Talbot-Lago T150-C SS Is one of Only 11 Like It Jun 15, 2022 — 2 min read Johnny Puckett This incredibly rare vintage car may surprise you will its style and performance. The 1930s were a difficult time for luxury automobile manufacturers as the great depression roared on between 1929 and 1939.

1936 Talbot Lago T150 C


The Talbot-Lago T150-C SS is widely recognised as one of the most beautiful and elegant automobile designs of the 20th century. The styling is characteristic of the work of Italian Giuseppe Figoni, the creative half of the French coachbuilder Figoni et Falaschi. The Talbot-Lago Story

1938 TalbotLago T150C SuperSport Teardrop Coupe


Gooding & Company's $13,425,000 result (including fees) for a 1937 Talbot-Lago T150 CSS Figoni & Falaschi Teardrop Coupe (chassis 90107) was 3.2 times the second-highest Amelia sale ($4,185,000 for a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder at Bonhams). By itself, the Talbot-Lago represented 10.6 percent of the entire three-auction total at Amelia Island.

1938 TalbotLago T150 C SS Teardrop Roadster Sports & Classics of Monterey 2009 RM Sotheby's


1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS Teardrop Coupe (Estimate: In excess of $10,000,000) Considered by many to be one of the most enduringly beautiful automobiles of all time, the creation of the Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS Goutte d'Eau, or Teardrop, was born out of a collaboration between Anthony Lago and Joseph Figoni, two Italian-born visionaries who became.

1938 TalbotLago T150C Lago Speciale Teardrop Coupe by Figoni et Falaschi Sports & Classics


In that summer before the German invasion of Poland put the world's most famous endurance race on hiatus for a decade, none other than Luigi Chinetti—future American Ferrari importer and founder of.

1938 Talbot Lago T150 C SS Teardrop Coupe Classic Driver Market


The Talbot-Lago T150 C competition cars were built to the ACF's new-for-1936 4-liter formula and were campaigned by a roster of star drivers such as Ren Dreyfus and Luigi Chinetti. At the 1936 Paris salon, Lago unveiled his ultimate sporting chassis, known today as the T150-C-SS, which was powered by a new 4-liter 140 hp engine equipped with three carburetors and a light-alloy hemi cylinder.

1938 Talbot Lago T150 CSS Figoni et Falaschi Coupe Photograph by Peter Lloyd


WATCH On March 4, Gooding & Company will auction off this 1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS Teardrop Coupe bodied by Figoni et Falaschi. Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy of Gooding & Company. The.

1938 TalbotLago T150C SS Teardrop Coupé by Figoni et Falaschi Villa d'Este 2011 RM Sotheby's


With its independent front suspension, lightweight construction, excellent braking and low ride height the T150C chassis was focused on competition. It also benefited from Talbot's rich heritage in motor sport and included engineering similar to the Talbot which won the 1937 French Grand Prix.

1936 Talbot Lago T150 Classic Driver Market


The second version, featuring a fastback design, was unveiled at the 1937 New York International Auto Show and fittingly named Modéle New York.The Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS presented here, chassis 90107, is widely regarded as the most beautiful and unique of the Figoni-bodied Teardrops.

BEST OF SHOW 1938 Talbot Lago T150 C SSdisplayed by Gwen and Tom Price 497Howard Koby photo


In 2017, one of only two Talbot-Lago T150-C SS "Goutte d'Eau" coupes—sporting teardrop bodies with enclosed front fenders—sold for about $3.75 million as part of an RM Sotheby's.

1936 Talbot Lago T150 C


Talbot-Lago T150 Talbot-Lago's engine, proven on the world's greatest racing stages, would become the basis for a new chassis. At the Paris Motor Show in October of 1934, Lago introduced a new prototype called the Talbot-Lago T150 Grand Sport. It wore coachwork designed by Joseph Figoni and was powered by a Becchia-developed inline six-cylinder.

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Talbot-Lago was a French automobile manufacturer based in Suresnes, Hauts de Seine, outside Paris. The company was owned and managed by Antonio Lago, an Italian engineer that acquired rights to the Talbot brand name after the demise of Darracq London 's subsidiary Automobiles Talbot France in 1936. [2]