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PANHARD PL17
Sale price: £12,000.00 make an offer
Sale type: Fixed price listing
Technical specifications, photos and description:
- Year:
- 1961
- Doors:
- 4
- Mileage:
- 77,680
- Engine:
- 851
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PANHARD PL17 for sale
Current customer rating: (235 votes ) based onEstimate £10-12. 00
Car is located and can be viewed in Ipswich. Suffolk
Background
Panhard et Levassor was established in France in 1887. building their first car in 1891. Panhard was a keen innovator and the first car company to produce a front engine. rear-wheel-drive car. providing the blueprint for the modern car.
The Panhard PL17 was a highly regarded car when it was new and remains so today. providing a much more interesting proposition to its now ubiquitous contemporary. the Citroen DS.
Its twin-cylinder. air-cooled engine might displace just 851cc - and produce a relatively lowly 50bhp - but the Panhard was always about style rather than performance.
The PL17 can also seat up to six people thanks to twin bench seats. making it one of the first MPVs and a car that pre-dated the six-seat Fiat Multipla by almost forty years. (It also has suicide doors at the front. predating the current Rolls-Royce Wraith by fifty-four…)
The Car
Originally sold by a garage in Derby. this 1961 example – coincidently. the same year that Panhard PL17s took the top three positions in the Monte Carlo rally - is believed to be just one of only a handful of remaining right-hand-drive cars.
Its rarity in period was probably down to its price rather than an inherent undesirability; trying to sell a quirky little French air-cooled car for the same price as a Jaguar must have been one of the tougher jobs in the industry…
The current owner has owned the car since June 2011 and fully recommissioned it with help from members of the Panhard Club GB. It has a full MOT and passed the last two with no advisories at all. (The 2013 test did note that the two rear shock absorbers were slightly weak but as subsequent testers haven't mentioned it. it would seem that their replacement is desirable rather than essential. )
It also comes with its original number plates. having successfully survived the ravages of the boom in ‘personalised' number plates.
For more information please see https://market. getpatina. com/listings/panhard-levassor/pl17/94dac96f-d852-4a38-bb22-f6ddaab1caaf
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