1938 Talbot-Lago T150-C SS Teardrop Coupe

Chassis 90117 is the only one of eleven Figoni et Falaschi Teardrop coupes built for racing instead of show. Commissioned in 1937 by French nobleman Philippe Régnier de Massa, the car was stretched four inches and lowered two compared to its showroom siblings, cutting frontal area and drag for a run at Le Mans. Underneath the aluminum bodywork sits a 4.0-liter inline six engineered by Walter Becchia, with hemispherical combustion chambers, triple Zenith-Stromberg carburetors, and a Wilson pre-selector gearbox, backed by extra reinforcement tubing in the engine bay and a long-range fuel tank with an external filler cap. De Massa and co-driver Norbert-Jean Mahé ran as high as ninth at the 1939 24 Hours of Le Mans before the car retired on lap 88, a broken valve spring or an oil-slicked skid the two competing explanations for why. The car vanished behind the Iron Curtain after the war and sat for nearly fifty years before reemerging following German reunification, going on to take Best of Show honors at Villa d'Este and the Louis Vuitton Classic Concours Award after restoration. A race car that spent five decades standing still is now the one Teardrop coupe built to be driven hard again.

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