OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE

470
franc deposits. The car did not achieve full production until the following
year. This took place in a rented part of the Talbot factory in Suresnes,
and Tony Lago would supply parts.
The velam was considerably different from the Iso, but it created as
much of a sensation amongst the show-going public and press. The
most obvious was the new body shell, smooth and sleek as a newly
peeled egg, which appealed to the fashion and style-conscious French
public. The Iso’s pontoon fender line was gone, and there were new,
removable, shapely front fenders. The shell was now a monocoque,
with a rear sub frame and a front beam axle bolted to it. The Iso’s
Dubonnet coil-spring suspension became a niemann rubber-ring type.