Postcard 1956 SIMCA Plein-Ciel Prototype

            Simca publicity photo from Summer 1956, on a contemporary postcard.
It shows us the first design of the renewed Simca sports car coupé. It still has a horizontal strip in the middle of the grille. It was called Plein-Ciel and appeared for the first time in Summer 1956.
The official launch of the definitive version (without this horizontal strip) was on the Salon de Paris in October 1956.
The Plein-Ciel received a new grille and rear end. The most striking modification was the panoramic windscreen.
It was available as a coupé and as a cabriolet, which was called Océane.
Both models were manufactured by Facel-Métallon and were technically based on the Aronde 1300.

Simca had its golden age in the 1950s and 1960s. Shortly after the war the idea of an own sports car appeared in the head office of Simca. In october 1947 head of the Simca company Henri Pigozzi (1898-1964) visited the Milan Car Show. There he was impressed by the Fiat 1100 Cabriolet Élaboré prototype designed by the young Giovanni Michelotti at Studio Pininfarina, which very much remembered him to the fluid silhouette of the Cisitalia 202 Berlinette. Pigozzi obtained the license to build such a sports car. The first prototype was shown at the Paris Salon de l'Automobile in October 1948. 
During 1949, the Simca 8 sports car continued to be developed in collaboration with Facel-Métallon, who actually finished the design and built the car.
Finally in October 1949 production could start.

1290 cc L4 Flash Spécial engine.
Ca. 940 kg.
Production Simca Aronde Series: May 1951-1959/1959-1964 (Berline).
Production Simca Aronde cabriolet/coupé series 2nd gen.: 1956-Spring 1962.
Production Simca Plein-Ciel this version: Autumn 1956-Autumn 1958.

Postcard published by Centenaire Editions, Saintes, France.
L'Automobile Francaise - Série 1, No. 27 Automobiles Simca.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
Postcard collection Sander Toonen.

Amsterdam, Sept. 21, 2017.

© 2017 Centenaire Editions/Sander Toonen Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
   

Taken on: September 21, 2017

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 85 IS, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, 6.2mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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