Talbot-Lago Grand Sport

Publishing 2012    692 pages in two volumes

By Peter Larsen with Ben Erickson

From 1948 to 1953, the Talbot-Lago Grand Sport was the unattainable star on the stands

of the famous carrossiers at the Paris Salons and the shows in Geneva, Brussels and

London. They were entered by their wealthy owners in post-war concours d’elegance

in France and abroad, and they often won the grand prize for their elegance. A Talbot-

Lago Grand Sport still does today, whenever one is shown. It looks like nothing else. It is

remarkable. It draws a crowd.

The Talbot-Lago Grand Sport was an anutomobile destined for the grand cru sportsman

and chic Parisian society in equal measure. It was a grand gesture, and the fi nal fl owering

in France of the great tradition of the truly custom motorcar. This was a chassis, which

was the last expression anywhere in the world of grand luxury. The Grand Sport was

outrageously exclusive and something for the very, very few. Not just because of its price,

which was stratospheric, or its limited practicality, which was irrelevant. No, here was a

car, which was chic, ritzy, aristocratic and sharp as a knife all at once. The Grand Sport

chassis was a thing of grand luxury because it appealed to a genuinely sophisticated

clientele, who could appreciate its superb pedigree. Grand luxury because of the truly

unique hand-crafted bodies this chassis demanded. Grand luxury because of the elite

gatherings on the racing and concours circuits to which this car gave admission, no

questions asked.

The Talbot-Lago Grand Sport was French haute couture in metal. It was

“The Car From Paris”. It was the last of a kind.

Here is the story of how the Grand Sprit was born. The story of Anthony

Lago, and his rise from penniless car dealer in London to luxury car maker

in France. And the story of every single Grand Sport chassis built.

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Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson biographies 

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