1929 Avions Voisin C15 Cabriolet Petit Duc

1929 Avions Voisin C15 Cabriolet Petit Duc.
This Neighbor C15, seen at Rétromobile 2018 on the exhibition of "Grandes Heures de l'Autodrome" of Linas-Montlhéry, does not go unnoticed with its bodywork "Petit Duc" yellow and its typical Art Deco motifs.
(The bodies whose name does not start with "C" or "Ch" are rare at Voisin!)
This C15 belonged to Gabriel Voisin "himself" ...Neighbor-C15-1929-18-300x201 Neighbor C15 "Little Duc" 1929 Neighbor French Cars before the war
It is equipped with a short sport chassis, a 2.3-liter engine (6 cylinders without valves, 64 Cv real for 13 Cv) and a bridge of 33 Cv (fiscal).
It comes a long way since it would have been dismantled to serve as a test bench for steam engines (Gabriel Voisin would have liked to regain the approval of the steam engines - torque and linear power, whatever the speed - with its engines. explosion).
The series model has just lost its wings, its exhaust and its trunk (in favor of 2 tanks to gain autonomy).

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Specification
Production Start 1929
Country of origin France