1932 Aries CB4

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40000 - 60000 EUR
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Result : 71 100EUR
1932 Aries CB4
Bodywork probably unique Superb-quality, older restoration Elegant and refined French registration papers Chassis no. 18848 Vehicle sold without technical inspection Founded in 1903 by Baron Charles Petiet, the Ariès company was based at Asnières and then at Villeneuve-la-Garenne close to the Aster factory which supplied many of its engines. Ariès is Latin for ‘ram’ and symbolises power. The car maker soon became known for its reliable, high-quality products. Initially targeting middle-class customers for its private cars, Ariès quickly diversified and from 1907 offered more modest vehicles. At the same time, the French company produced from the start goods vehicles and lorries, which were widely used during the First World War. Ariès offered a wide range of vehicles, fitted with different engines including the single-cylinder fitted to the VT small car in 1908, the first French V6 engine developed in 1910 and, in 1912, a sleeve-valved engine built under licence from Knight. Despite this varied output, the company lacked both a strong brand image and sufficient industrial power. Only 20,000 vehicles rolled off the production lines in 35 years. Faced with the financial crisis of the 1930s, Petiet threw in the towel and the make disappeared in 1938. The Ariès we are presenting here is a CB4 L-series model, an elegant four-seat ‘torpedo’. It is fitted with a 9HP four-cylinder engine with overhead inlet valves and side exhaust and a Cozette downdraught carburettor. According to the factory register, it was apparently built in 1932, but the car’s registration papers suggest that it was first registered in January 1930. An extremely rare, if not unique, feature of this example is that the body is styled differently at the rear, with a sharply pointed tail like an aircraft fuselage, which may be a so-called ‘Bordino tail’, designed by the Italian racing driver Pietro Bordino and originally intended to r
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