Odd And Rare Older Cars You Don’t See Everyday

#26 – 1948 Wimille Prototype

French Grand Prix motor racing driver Jean Pierre Wimille designed aerodynamic cars. The pre-war Auto Union inspired him. Appropriately titled the J-P Wimille, he manufactured these vehicles with the aid of associates from 1946 to 1950 in Paris. The one in the picture is from 1948. He included a mounted 22 hp Ford V-8 in the car. He showed off the concept at a 1948 Salon de l’Automobile, saying it was “today’s car for the future.” Wimille created around twenty of them.