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Panhard CD Coupé from 1962 - the Le Mans racing car for the commute to work

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Created on June 14, 2013

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Stefan Fritschi

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Panhard CD (1964) - with interlocked wheels at the rear to prevent air vortices

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Panhard CD (1963) - sporty coupé for two people - illustration in a sales brochure

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Panhard CD (1962) - the racing car for the 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans

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Panhard CD (1962) - the prototype for Le Mans in 1962 - view-through drawing

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Panhard CD (1962) - the chassis of the Le Mans car for the 1962 race

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Panhard CD (1962) - View of the front suspension of the Le Mans car for 1962

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Panhard CD (1962) - Le Mans success as a sales promotion

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Panhard CD (1962) - Presentation at the Paris Motor Show

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Panhard CD (1962) - Presentation at the 1962 Paris Motor Show

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Panhard CD (1962) - aerodynamic rear section, hardly any visible differences to the competition version

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Panhard CD (1962) - elegant silhouette, unchanged silhouette compared to the Le Mans version

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Panhard CD (1963) - illustration in a sales brochure

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Panhard CD (1963) - at a car show

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Panhard CD (1963) - the girlfriend makes eyes

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Panhard CD (1963) - the imperative of aerodynamics is clearly visible here

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Panhard CD (1963) - hardly distinguishable from the Le Mans racer in the rear view

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Panhard CD (1963) - front view with four rectangular headlights

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Panhard CD (1963) - some chrome, little ornamentation

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Panhard CD (1963) - comfortable seats and sporty entry

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Panhard CD (1963) - sporty steering wheel and tidy dashboard

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Panhard CD (1963) - the series version in the see-through drawing

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Panhard CD (1963) - the sketch shows the two-cylinder engine located far forward

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Panhard CD LM64 (1964) - registered for Le Mans 1964, with 850 cm3 Panhard engine with supercharger, not dissimilar in form to the Panhard CD

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Summary

After the Second World War, Panhard became famous above all for its ingenious small cars with air-cooled 2-cylinder boxer engines. Le Mans is less likely to spring to mind. However, the Panhard CD took 16th place overall in 1962 and won the class up to 850 cm3. The company wanted to capitalize on this success and produced a road-going sports car with a plastic body. This report describes the history of this exceptional vehicle in detail and shows it in many historical pictures, two brochures and contemporary press documents.

This article contains the following chapters

Sports car manufacturer Charles Deutsch strengthens Panhard
204.8 km/h with 701 cm3...
... but without Lotus competition
Le Mans technology for road traffic
Last Le Mans attempt in 1964
Citroën is not to blame for everything
Further information

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

After the Second World War, Panhard became famous above all for its ingenious small cars with air-cooled 2-cylinder boxer engines. Le Mans is less likely to spring to mind. But the Panhard CD Dyna took 16th place overall in 1962 and won the class up to 850 cm3. Based on the racing cars and prototypes, 179 road sports cars were built according to the motto: "Pas comme les autres - Different from the others." The French brand D. B. (Deutsch-Bonnet) was successfully involved in national and international racing for almost 23 years. However, René Bonnet and Charles Deutsch parted company in 1961. The latter was welcomed with open arms at Panhard because they wanted to use his Le Mans experience for an in-house racing car, naturally with the marketing background of giving the current Panhard PL17 (1959-1965) and its successor 24 (1963-1967) a sportier image. This was a tried and tested recipe, as the PL 17 had already attracted attention in 1961 with a (thoroughly controversial) triple victory at the Monte Carlo Rally.

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