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Autobleu Mille Miles 750 - Fast and hard on the wind
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Created on November 16, 2011
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Jeroen Booij
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Summary
With a small engine but impressive speed records, the extremely rare French Autobleu 750 Mille Miles from 1954 had to put itself in the limelight with its aerodynamics. Despite its sad end, it has become a French legend. This report looks back and shows the car in its current condition.
This article contains the following chapters
- Works racing car
- Good relations
- Blue National
- With Frua
- Fast little one
- Maurice Mestivier - the man behind Autobleu
- Technical profile of the Autobleu 750 Mille Miles
Estimated reading time: 11min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Few cars look as funny, almost clumsy, as the Autobleu 750 Mille Miles as it crouches on the cobblestones of the small French town. With its exaggerated lines - from the tiny passenger compartment leaning forward to the mighty headlight bays and the long tapered rear end - the coupé would be the delight of any car comic artist. But the shapes of the Autobleu were anything but a joke. On the contrary, the little racing car is a very serious piece of French automotive history. It was measured at more than 170 km/h on the Montlhéry racetrack and was able to take on far more powerful opponents at the Mille Miglia in 1954 and again in 1955. In the end, it did not win, but more on that later.
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