Camus's Death and a Rare French Sports Car
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01 ... ports-car/
Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus, the existentialist philosopher and novelist — and of the brief moment of notoriety Camus’s death brought to the car in which he died, a Facel Vega.
Has anyone else ever heard of the Facel Vega?Daninos began his business in the late 1930s. After the Second World War, Facel stamped out pieces for Simcas and other smaller French auto companies. But Daninos lamented the loss of great French sporting marques, like Bugatti or Delahaye, and conceived his own car. He drew the body lines himself, and adopted Chrysler Hemi engines to power the Vega. At first, Daninos used DeSoto engines, but by 1957 he had upgraded to the powerful 5.8 Hemi from Chrysler’s 300.
