>From: Simon Favre <favres@engmail.ulinear.com>
>Subject: Re: Info on Simca Special
>To: clarksmith@earthlink.net (Clark Smith)
>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:42:33 PST
>Cc: vintage-race@autox.team.net
>
>Clark wrote:
>
>>... One respected authority considered Hagemann and Bourgeault (happy
>>Simon?) to be the greatest artists to create chassis.
>
>I take that to mean they both built great looking cars, but some of them
>weren't very fast. ;=)
>
I took this gentleman's comments to be entirely complimentary. I am
certain that Hagemann's creations were contracted and he was limited by the
whims and checkbooks of his clients. Perhaps that was the same with
Bourgeault.
Clark
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