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Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. #824721 10/07/10 10:21 PM 10/07/10 10:21 PM
Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 49 PA C cartoon6pk1 OP member
cartoon6pk1 OP member C Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 49 PA	Hi, Have you ever seen a Facel Vega? I have a 1960 French Made Facel Vega HK 500. it has a HP383 with 2x4 bbls it has spinner wheels 4 disk brakes and was the fastest 4 seater car in the world in 1960. around 400 cars were made in the 4 years the made the HK 500s the vin on this is (3). i found it in a barn in OH. it has all its parts but needs restored. Thanks for looking. 6238783-142.JPG (291 downloads)

Re: Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. [Re: cartoon6pk1] #824722 10/08/10 07:35 AM 10/08/10 07:35 AM
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3eighty3 member Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 82 Austria	Wow, congradulations! Facel Vegas are way cool and really expensive. Yours looks good and I wish all the best for the restoration. ________________________________________ Cuda blog

Re: Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. [Re: 3eighty3] #824723 10/27/10 11:37 AM 10/27/10 11:37 AM
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,411 Southern Michigan Dartman440 pro stock
Dartman440 pro stock Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,411 Southern Michigan	Facel Vegas are cool. There is an old Chrysler Engineer by me that has one with a 58 or 59' 392 Hemi.Gold ext.

Re: Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. [Re: Dartman440] #824724 10/27/10 12:45 PM 10/27/10 12:45 PM
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Anonymous Unregistered A	I think Jay Leno would like to get his hands on that.

Re: Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. [Re: ] #824725 10/27/10 02:41 PM 10/27/10 02:41 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,912 APACHE JUNCTION AZ J Joesixpack I Live Here
Joesixpack I Live Here J Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,912 APACHE JUNCTION AZ	Our local(John Leach,Leach Holmes)collector owns 1 0r 2 Facel Vegas....along with a large assortment of Citroens,Renaults,MGs,Peugeots,Simcas,etc

Re: Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. [Re: cartoon6pk1] #824726 10/27/10 07:58 PM 10/27/10 07:58 PM
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palosfv3 member P Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1 Chicago. Ill	Congratulations on your Facel find. The Mopar powered cars are rare and desireable,especially over in Europe. I'm just finishing up awakening a 1960 HK500,an all original 18,000 mi from a 48year sleep. Here is a link to pics that may be helpful in getting things together on your car. http://picasaweb.google.com/wgmauto/HugoAlpersFacelVegaHK500# The Facel forum is fairly active and is helpfull if your can translate French. Here is the link to their forum. http://www.forum-auto.com/automobiles-mythiques-exception/section5/sujet378277.htm There are quite a number of items available to restore your car . The Facel club has quite a number of vendors to help. Facels have some peculiarities when assembling and reassembling but for the most part are pretty straight forward. If I can help you in any way drop me a note. Thought this may be of interest to those new to the Facel Link to detailed pics http://picasaweb.google.com/wgmauto/1957FacelVega# I restored this FV4 between 2007 and 2009. Powered by a letter series 354 Hemi. 6271796-2008-10FacelVega061.jpg (104 downloads)

Re: Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. [Re: cartoon6pk1] #824727 10/27/10 08:35 PM 10/27/10 08:35 PM
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hemi_harvester master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,449 Gateway to the West.	Quote: Hi, Have you ever seen a Facel Vega? I have a 1960 French Made Facel Vega HK 500. it has a HP383 with 2x4 bbls it has spinner wheels 4 disk brakes and was the fastest 4 seater car in the world in 1960. around 400 cars were made in the 4 years the made the HK 500s the vin on this is (3). i found it in a barn in OH. it has all its parts but needs restored. Thanks for looking. There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama & people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good.

Re: Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. [Re: cartoon6pk1] #824728 10/27/10 08:47 PM 10/27/10 08:47 PM
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 7,066 portland or new bee Richard Cranium
new bee Richard Cranium Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 7,066 portland or	Cool project! French writer Albert Camus (The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall) died in the passenger seat of a Facel Vega. 1969 383 4sp. Super Bee 1966 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT 1965 Porsche 356C 2004 VW Passat Wagon 2004 Mini Cooper S 1967 Jaguar E-Type FHC A mall cop is in our midst.

Re: Rare barn find:French car with Mopar Drive line. [Re: new bee] #824729 10/29/10 07:05 PM 10/29/10 07:05 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 6,005 Reno, Nevada NV69B7RR master
NV69B7RR master Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 6,005 Reno, Nevada	Very cool! More pics please! 72 Demon 340 71 Duster 340 Resto https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...part=1&vc=1

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