Solved: Wendax 980 - Pussycar Valérie

[Wendax]

Fashionable.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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[cmetisse]

Pussycar, by Jean-Pierre Ponthieu.

Another french voiturette, but one of the first 50cc "sans permis" ever made. It was built mainly for advertisement purpose, as it was the job of Mr Ponthieu.
It used the usual 47,6 cc Sachs with two-speed centrifugal gearbox driving one rear wheel, and had a GRP bodywork. It was first launched in 1966, and the mechanical layout was made with the help of Marcel Tamine of Ardex !
At first, Jean-Pierre Ponthieu did try to sell it, with a lot of different body styles, but it came to nothing, as it was too costly. The Pussycars were mostly recycled as rolling advertisement, which became the main business of Jean-Pierre Ponthieu. With his company, SESAP, he created countless weird advertising cars. It seems more than 200 Pussycars were made, but just a few have survived today.

[Wendax]

Yes, Pussycar is correct, but I think I wanted the name for this body style, too. Locked for you.

Thank you for your additional information, one of the reasons I keep posting French voiturettes. 

[cmetisse]

I suppose it is the "Valérie" version. It is sometimes quite confusing, as Ponthieu already created another stillborn voiturette, the Otokart, back in 1963. But the Otokart was even smaller and a single seater. I don't have any pictures of it.

Ponthieu approved in 1966 two different Pussycar, the Eugénie with a "Taxi de la Marne replica" body (sort of !  ) and the Valérie, with a square and modern styling, but at first without any windscreen, nor roof or any glasses.

I've met Jean-Pierre Ponthieu twice (as I have a project to write something about his cars), and he told me that the Valérie was, to him, a kind of "Jeep" bodywork...
Anyway, there were a lot of body changes for the Pussycars, because it depends on the advertisers wishes.
Ponthieu even gave a few cars for beach rent.

[Wendax]

Valérie is of course the name that I was after.

One more petit point for you.

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Some pictures of the Pussycar Valérie at an event called Grand Prix Automobile de la Foire Exposition de la Côte d'Opale:

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Together with a Pussycar Eugénie:

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With a hardtop, well not too hard, I guess:

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Two views of the Otokart/Pussycar Valérie with circular headlights: