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Even more than Britain, the field of French sports car specialist post 1950 is dominated by certain characters whose names are engraved on a variety of low volume makes In this case, it is the Chappe brothers; Abel, Albert and Louis These three form the C Chappe et Gessalin or GC G comes from Jean Gessalin.
Uncle John, Amedeo was actually married to the sister of the Chappe brothers, making it a family affair, however, before the formation of GC, the Chappe brothers had their own business, Chappe of the body, they form around 1930 Gessalin Bodies was also 1930's society, but the two came together to form GC in 1946 after John had over the company after the death of his uncle.
CG also worked for Carlos Alberto, better known under the name of Charles Pozzi, who led a race team under that banner, he had many Delahaye 135, 175 and Talbot-Lago T26 s in their various road running, shopping sports and racing forms; CG has aluminum body and other preparation works as requested a complete car built CG was Bosvin-Michel-special, designed by Camille Bosvin.
Their first was CG Spider 1000 2 2 page layout He used the Simca type A1000 as undercarriage source coupled to a backbone chassis At Lotus, Alpine and Matra among many others had used Lotus backbone chassis was a folded sheet design, while French cars have tended to use a large round, oval section tube or a box in the center, and combine it with a frame perimeter and integral floor the chassis of the GC was this style, with deep oval backbone connecting the front Simca suspension subframe direction with its rear semi-trailing arm and mounting box through which has been added to deep side RHS and members before with a floor of pressed sheet metal.
In 1969, GC released next range of models, the CG 1200 S This was based on the latest Simca 1200 S Coupe, released in June 1967, which itself used as a base the last Simca 1000s that were known internally type B1200 special car evolved from this, 20 were to be built, but in the end 18 were made were called Lite CG 548 in reference to their light weight of just 548 kg up.
To this 112 kg of reduction, a number of schemes have been incorporated these include rethink some details of the frame without affecting the strength such as recessing the side beams in the main frame, restructuring some details lower frame, replacing the floor steel with solid aluminum light plate and the motor mounting to the transaxle rear cross which allowed the rear frame structure to be removed and replaced with only two fasteners.
In 1972, CG presented their new CG 1300 This was the last of the key CG range final model of CG was known as Simca-CG MC overlapping chronologically both CG 1200 S and 1300 models These cars have a central bath and space frame with mid-mounted 2156cc Chrysler engine 180 in the custody of Chrysler, the engine started with 175 hp 6800rpm and 163 lb-ft 4200rpm and 195 6800 with the same torque Chrysler season 1972 handed most engines developers engines JRD, which began to radically transform the engine both more powerful and reliable unit; but it was not immediate power figures rose to 215bp 7200. But there were still some reliability problems read the full article via the link above.
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