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estimate: $000 000 - $000 000
The Rovin D3 first appeared alongside the popular roadster-bodied
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D2 at the Paris Show in the fall of 1948. Mechanically, it was the
same, but it was now clothed in an elegant pontoon-fendered art
Deco style body. It had become a “real” car with actual doors, and
its sophisticated, water-cooled, two-cylinder motor lifted the new
Rovin model out of the sea of two-stroke cyclecars populating French
roads. The Paris Show cars had close-set headlamps integrated into
the body on both sides of the grille strips, but these did not meet
French regulations, and the production models had separate highmounted
lamps. The attractive body style would remain to the end of
production, nearly a decade later. The lamps were finally integrated
into the body in 1954.
Rovin cars are difficult to date by appearance, as detail changes
were made progressively rather than according to distinct models.
This unrestored project car is likely a D3 model because its suicide
doors were current for the entire model run, but the rear-hinged doors
overlapped briefly into the D4 model, which had front-hinged ones.
manufacturer It also lacks Manufacturer the D4’s bumper overriders, production but it does # feature a rare
origin accessory cast-aluminum City, Country luggage rack. ID no. #
motor motor displacement cc
power hp length mm
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