[s-cars] RS6

[Charlie Smith]

Earlier, mlp wrote:
>
> Robin -
>
> Well I see it is back to the old
> De Nueve / Bardot, Bardot / De Nueve.
> Here, maybe this will help:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1837720671

It's been relisted with a lower buy-it-now price:
  http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1840280038

This eventually turned into the Simca Océan.  It was based on the Arondé
chassis.  When my family lived in France through most of the '50s, my
father had several Arondé models.  The transmission was a 4 speed, with
the shift on the steering column.  As you can imagine, the Flash engine
was anything but ...   Simca's 'performance' car was the Vedette {sp?},
which was a bit larger 4 dr sedan with a flathead V8 variety of the
Ford flathead from earlier times.

I had an Océan for a couple years in college.  It was white with a red
leather interior.  Not a fast performer on the highway, but as James
Murray's story went, you didn't really need a BMW M5 either  :-)

I was in my teenage years when Bardot's movies were causing an uproar
over her unclothed scenes.  You had to be 18 to see the movies, so of
course we took that as a challenge to talk our way in as often as
possible.  There was nothing like seeing a Bardot movie speaking Spanish
with subtitles in French.  Most of the movies had a 'skin exposure' scene
that was no more revealing than the color picture in the eBay URL above.
And it was usually about 2 seconds long!

    - Charlie


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