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PETER M. LARSEN,

Automotive Historian

Peter Larsen has co-authored several books with Ben Erickson on French cars and coachbuilders, including works on Talbot-Lago, Jacques Saoutchik, Jacques Kellner as well as an ongoing project about Joseph Figoni where the latest installment is a 3-volume award-winning work about Bugatti that were bodied by Figoni. Just published is a volume about Talbot-Lago Grand Sport chassis 110109, the car that became famous as part of the 2015 auction of the Baillon Barnfind Collection at Retromobile, where its haunting state of decay captivated the collector-car world. Peter judges at a number of international concours, including the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where he also serves on the Selection Committee.

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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.
Jacques Saoutchik, Maître Carrossier: 1949 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport, Chassis 110109, The Baillon Car by Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson Joseph Figoni: Le Grand Couturier de la Carrosserie Automobile, Vol. II, III, IV: Bugatti by Peter M. Larsen and Ben Erickson

Jacques Saoutchik, Maître Carrossier: 1949 Talbot-Lago Grand Sport Chassis 110109 – The Baillon Car tells the remarkable story of one of the most celebrated automobiles from the legendary Baillon Collection.

Discovered after decades of neglect and sold at Artcurial’s extraordinary 2015 auction in Paris, chassis 110109 has since undergone a meticulous restoration to its original splendour. Lavishly illustrated with 375 images, this limited-edition volume documents the car’s history, rediscovery, preservation and extraordinary rebirth.

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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