Farman A6 Competition Super Sport Race Car

Made to Order. Like many of their competitors, the Farman brothers feared that peace would have detrimental effects on the airplane business and in 1919 they branched out into building motor cars. Inspired by Hispano Suiza, they produced a new six cylinder engine first shown in 1919. The 6.6 litre unit was effectively half of their 280HP 60 degree V12 aircraft engine. Production numbers were low as befits a car aimed at the very rich, only 120 cars in total. The engine was revised in the 1920s and the cars fitted with this new engine were known as the A6B. Around this time, Two A6B competition Super Sports were built on shortened A6B chassis. This model is of the open version destined for racing, but its only outing was at the Gaillon hill climb. Afterwards information becomes a bit uncertain. During 1922/23 either the car was rebodied as the closed car presented elsewhere on the website, or a second chassis was used.