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Ben Erickson is a trained linguist who has always been interested in cars. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Historians and has co-authored (with Peter M. Larsen) Talbot-Lago Grand Sport: The Car from Paris, Jacques Saoutchik: Maître Carrossier and Jacques Kellner: Matters of Life and Death and a monograph on Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport chassis 110101. He is currently working on Joseph Figoni, le Grand Couturier de la Carrosserie Automobile, a series of books which includes Alfa-Romeo by Figoni which was published in the fall of 2021, as well as Bugatti by Figoni, published in 2025.

Ben Erickson serves as a concours judge at various international events including Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Chantilly Arts and Elegance, 21 Gun Salute, Salon Privé, The Amelia and Audrain Newport Concours.
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Saoutchik Addendum by Peter M. Larsen with Ben Erickson Cover The Kellner Affair by Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson Cover Jacques Saoutchik, Maître Carrossier: 1948 Talbot-Lago Grand Sport Chassis 110101 by Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson
The Kellner Affair:
Matters of Life and Death
Peter M. Larsen
and Ben Erickson
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Addendum to the main three volume work. The addendum covers the discovery of the Baillon collection in France and provides further accounts of Sir John Gaul, Gijsbert-Paul Berk and more.

The Kellner Affair tells the fascinating story of how some of the most influential people in the French luxury car business before the War came together and fought bravely against the Nazi occupation force in Paris.

 		The book is a tribute to the incredible
coachbuilt Talbot-Lago Grand Sport coupé chassis 110101 that was the undisputed
star of the 1948 Paris Salon de l’Automobile. The Grand Sport was the greatest
postwar French chassis, and Saoutchik was the greatest French coachbuilder in
the postwar years. The exquisitely beautiful body which Saoutchik created for chassis 110101 is regarded as the most sensational
and stunning of all postwar French coachbuilt bodies.
Joseph Figoni: Le Grand Couturier de la Carrosserie Automobile, Vol. II, III, IV: Bugatti by Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson
Joseph Figoni: Le Grand Couturier de la Carrosserie Automobile, Vols. II–IV: Bugatti is a definitive three-volume study of the collaboration between Joseph Figoni and Bugatti during the golden age of French coachbuilding. Drawing on extraordinary archival sources, it documents 113 Bugatti chassis bodied by Figoni between 1925 and 1939, with detailed histories, period photography, original documentation, and newly discovered material. A landmark reference on pre-war Bugatti, Parisian luxury, and the art of the carrossier.
   
 
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