Photo: Richard Owen
While may rant on about how cars looked better in the 1960s and how everything is outsourced to China, there used to be a time when nothing was outsourced, or if it was, it would have still been a local deal. If you have not heard of Avions Voisin, it is a luxury automaker and airplane manufacturer founded in 1905 by an early French aviation pioneer, called Gabriel B. Vosin.
In 1919 the company started building cars, and by 1934 (12 years before the company would eventually go bust) they had built the stunning C27 Aérosport. With inspiration from his aeronautical experience and a less-than subtle hint of art deco, Voisin created a true work of art.
The C27 had an aerodynamic body and superb lines and was breathtakingly different to any cars of the era. It looked very good both from afar, and from close up, as it featured extreme attention to detail, with touches such as ribbed aluminium accents and the hand-built interior clad in very funky-looking textile upholstery.
It was powered by a sleeve-valve straight six which put out 105 hp at 3800 rpm, and was good for a 150 km/h (93 mph) top speed. Sadly, while the plan may have been to make some two dozen of them, only very few were really ever fully completed (exact number is apparently not known).
The C27 had an aerodynamic body and superb lines and was breathtakingly different to any cars of the era. It looked very good both from afar, and from close up, as it featured extreme attention to detail, with touches such as ribbed aluminium accents and the hand-built interior clad in very funky-looking textile upholstery.
It was powered by a sleeve-valve straight six which put out 105 hp at 3800 rpm, and was good for a 150 km/h (93 mph) top speed. Sadly, while the plan may have been to make some two dozen of them, only very few were really ever fully completed (exact number is apparently not known).
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