La Vie au Grand Air...

Nowadays 'La Vie au Grand Air' is the name of a French organisation which is helping deprived children. Not so in the beginning of the last century. It was a well known magazine about the wonders of a new century. Biking, ballooning, boating and motoring! Weekends and holidays were a new thing rising in popularity at steamtrain speed.  The magazine hooked in with the new trend and helped their readers feed their fantasy.  Rural France opened up, especially with the easy transport which came available.
Renault was one of the big players as you may know, also when it came to BIG. The 1925 Renault type 45 features a 9 litre 6 cylinder and is one of the largest and most powerful cars of that time in Europe. You probably know that the car currently resides in the US with Hyman Ltd. But we should say resided, as it's on its way to Europe again. Planning to make its entry at Techno Classica Essen mid April. Let's hope the car will find a European buyer, no better a French buyer. With a car like this the French countryside is always near. Looking at this magnus opus of Billancourt we can only dream to take it for a long sunny, summer, Sunday drive only to get out in a Van Gogh landscape for a beautiful picnic.

(photo courtesy Hyman Ltd.   Hall 6,  Techno Classica Essen, 15-19 April)

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