Lot n° 13
Estimation :
20000 - 30000
EUR
Rosengart LR 500 Supertraction Cabriolet – 1935 - Lot 13
Rosengart LR 500 Supertraction Cabriolet – 1935
French registration title cancelled upon previous transfer
Sold without contrôle technique
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No, the Citroën Traction was not the first front-wheel drive car to be marketed. Rosengart was the pioneer in this field. Indeed, Lucien Rosengart marketed from 1933 the first front-wheel drive car produced in series in France, the LR 500, which received the flattering name of Supertraction, later adopted on an exceptional cabriolet...
The manufacturer had been seduced by the German Adler Trumpf and had bought the manufacturing license. The transmission joints were none other than Tracta constant velocity joints, developed by French engineer Jean-Albert Grégoire, who had equipped his own cars with them under the same Tracta brand. He had proven their robustness by entering notably in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Supertraction was equipped with a 1,650 cc 4-cylinder of 45 hp coupled to a 4-speed gearbox with steering wheel
control. Besides its front-wheel drive, it benefited from four-wheel independent suspension and rack-and-pinion steering, a real feat for the time...
This Supertraction was bought by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest in 1961, the year the Sarthe automobile museum opened. The current owner acquired it at an auction in 1993 and restored it immediately afterwards, in this pretty dark blue color, before the current owner purchased it in 2013.
Interesting from a technical standpoint and attractive from an aesthetic point of view, this Supertraction offers all the pleasures of open bodywork and the charm of driving a pre-war car. Not used since its purchase, it will require recommissioning and the usual checks before taking to the road again.
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