After creating a real encyclopedia in three volumes (plus an addendum with updates, corrections and recently discovered images) concerning the life and works of Jacques Saoutchik, the authors Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson have jointed a new appendix dedicated to the activity of the great French coachbuilder active between 1907 and 1954.
This single book is entirely dedicated to a single car, considered one of Saoutchik’s greatest masterpieces: the first Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport, presented in 1948 with chassis number 110101. A coupé with a streamlined tail and an elegant two-tone livery, this car is the first of a series of just six units all different from each other. The volume is made up of 328 pages and over 260 images, and tells the entire history of the model in great detail, with a preamble on the origin and conception of the chassis up to the various chapters where the set-up and finishing are described up to the great moment of the debut. Further sections are dedicated to its history up to the restoration that took place a few years ago and which is also documented in all its phases, from the preliminary examination to the disassembly and reconditioning of each piece, of the coverings and chrome plating up to the final reassembly.
In addition to the bibliography, the book also includes an overview of the other examples built by Saoutchik and the other body variants designed by the French master, who in total signed about a dozen T26 GS, about a third of those built in total.
Flippable preview of the volume here.
Datasheet
Jacques Saoutchik Maitre Carrossier – 1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport Chassis 110101
Publisher: Dalton Watson Fine Book
Authors: Peter M. Larson e Ben Erickson
Size: bound volume measuring 21,9 x 30,4 x 3,5 cm with hard cover and case
Pages: 328
Text: English
Photographs: 264 in color and b/w
Price: 240 euros
