Equipment
Wheel discs with chrome centers, Lester blackwall tires, Boyce Motometer, Marchal headlamps, suicide doors, landau bars, rear-mounted spare wheel, floor shift, wood dash and window trim, Jaeger gauges.
Condition
Pourtout's 1933 Paris Motor Show car. Bought by restauranteur Andre Surmain in 1966 and restored some time in the 1970s. Later sold to and shown by Albert Prost. Paint is cracking and chipping near door handles and there are paint chips around the hub caps, hood, and door edges. Big chip in the middle of the nose at the bottom and a few tiny chips on the left front fender. Chrome around the headlight bezels is deplating. Top is itred, faded and lightly ripped. Very good upholstery, but the wood needs to be refinished. Not an eyesore by any means, but this is a restoration that looks and is decades old and doesn't have originality as an excuse for its presentation. It's a magnificent car underneath, though, and after another concours restoration it could have a healthy show career ahead of it.
Market commentary
Having sold for a reported $1,260,112 at the Artcurial auction at Retromobile in Paris in February of 2014 on an estimate of $1.36-1.63 million, it is not at all surprising that the high bid here was insufficient to separate it from its consignor. It was optimistic to think there might be some profit, however, in the intervening eighteen months since it last sold.