1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS Teardrop Coupe | Amelia Island Auction 2022

The creation of the Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS Goutte d’Eau, or Teardrop - one of the most enduringly beautiful automobiles of all time - resulted from a collaboration between Anthony Lago and Joseph Figoni, two Italian-born visionaries who became darlings of the vibrant Parisian automotive scene that thrived throughout the late 1930s.
The Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS presented here, chassis 90107, is widely regarded as the most beautiful and unique of the Figoni-bodied Teardrops.
Recorded in the Figoni et Falaschi ledger as order no. 665, this body is believed to have been based on rendering no. 9035, the most extreme variation of the Modéle New York design, which features all-aluminum construction and fully enveloping, skirted front fenders. Only two bodies of this type were built; today, 90107 is the sole example that survives with its original coachwork intact.
A prizewinner at the 1938 Concours d’Elegance Fémina, this marvelous machine has been owned by a limited roster of caretakers since its arrival on US soil in 1939. Remarkably, this European classic spent nearly eight decades in Southern California, the locus of American car culture, where it led a fantastic existence - raced by the legendary Tommy Lee on the dry lake beds of the Mojave Desert, hidden away for decades by pioneering French car collector Lindley Locke, and then rediscovered and restored to its original splendor by The Nethercutt Collection. Naturally, it has since earned some of the most prestigious honors on the modern concours circuit.
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March 4, 2022
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