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CG 1966-1974 - GRP pioneer

Name: CG 1200 S 1970
Brand: CG

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Created in 2013

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Roger Gloor

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Bruno von Rotz

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CG 1300 (1972) - new sports coupé from the French manufacturer at the Paris Motor Show

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CG 48 Prototype Simca (1971) - offered as lot 320 at the Artcurial Rétromobile auction on February 8, 2013

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There have been around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of which have disappeared. Chappe Frères & Gessalin, or CG for short, can also be counted among these vanished brands. It produced plastic bodies for prototypes and built the CG Spider 1000 itself, as well as other models.

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In post-war France, there was a whole series of manufacturers who used drive units from large-scale production for the manufacture of small sports coupés: Alpine, Autobleu, CD, DB, Matra, René Bonnet and, of course, CG. This pair of letters stood for Chappe Frères & Gessalin. CG had supplied René Bonnet, Alpine, DB and Simca with plastic bodies for prototypes from 1953 onwards. In 1960, CG settled in Brie-Compte-Robert, in the south-east of Paris. The CG Spider 1000 was built there from 1966 onwards. It was based on the rear-engined Simca 1000 small car with an unchanged wheelbase of 222 cm. The platform frame with central support was bolted to the body. In 1967, the Sport 1000 was added as a well-formed 2+2-seater fastback coupé as an alternative to the Alpine.

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