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came across this one in San Francisco earlier in the year when I should have been at Le Mans insteadEdited for accuracy...
I'm still whipping myself every morning.
..........and a war was just starting in Vietnam
Someone to pay attention to old cars and not boys?
.......Leather straps, could it be a piece of very early Louis Vuitton carriage luggage?
Cyclops robert de rovin had built motorcycles before the war with his brother raoul. His original rovin car had a single headlight and a rear-mounted 260cc single engine but never made it to production. The 1947 salon saw a more polished design, with two headlights, roll-up windows and a 425cc flat twin engine. About 380 were built before it was succeeded by the wider-bodied rovin d3 at the end of 1948. falling sales at 370,000 francs, the first rovins were more expensive than the citroen 2cv, but sold well anyway because there was a four-year waiting list for the little citroen. Later rovin models undercut the citroen in price but sold no better. In 1952, the engine was enlarged to 462 cc, but sales continued to fall. Petering out at the end of the fifties, the rovin had come in like a lion but went out like a lamb.The rovin was as basic as could be, but ironically was built in the old delaunay-belleville luxury car factory.
