SOLVED: Djetset #225 - 1969 Simca 1100 Pierre Cardin

[Djetset]

Please tell me very precisely what this is for a point.

[HEMI 426]

Simca 1100

[Djetset]

It is a Simca 1100, but if you look closely this one is a bit different, so know what this particular one is?

[HEMI 426]

Simca 1204, GLS, GLX or a TI...?

[Djetset]

No, a greater difference than any of those Simca 1100 variants.

[Djetset]

Experts, what's special about this Simca?

[metalshapes]

3 door.

I did not know they made one...

I've only seen 5 doors.

[Djetset]

Simca made a 3-door hatch, as well as a 5-door, plus a 5-door Break (wagon) and a 3-door Break for a limited time, plus various light commercial vehicle derivatives.  It's not the fact that this is a three-door that makes this one special though.

[guido66]

There's some special about the glass? First car with privacy glass?

[studhamsmudger]

Is it the first car with a heated rear screen?

[Djetset]

No, neither the first car with privacy glass or a heated reat window, that I know of.

[guido66]

The rear screen is larger than normal?

[Djetset]

Yes, the rear screen is large than normal.  That's what makes this Simca 1100 distinctive.  Do you know why and what this is?

[guido66]

A coupé prototype?

[franck.kegelart]

Simca 1100 Pierre Cardin, first seen at Paris Auto Show 1969 : specific tail gate and interior.

[Djetset]

Well done Franck, it is the special Pierre Cardin Simca 1100, which had a different tailgate, bumpers, wheels, colour and interior.  I'll dig out a photo of the complete car when i get back home next weekend.

[Djetset]

As promised, here's a bigger (but not better) photo of the complete car.

[barrett]

Here's a bad quality but colour picture. Seems strange that images of this car are so hard to come by, it must've been exhibited at fairly high profile events in period. I guess this is the original precursor to the glut of 'designer' special edition cars in the '80s...