Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco unveils the prototype of the new ALA 50. The car was built in honour of the 25th anniversary of Monaco’s first-ever car brand in May.

5 Examples Produced.

After having carried out their training at Worblaufen, Fritz Ramseier & Co, the Ernst brothers and Fritz Beutler founded their own workshop with Thoune, Switzerland in 1947. The first order for the new company was a convertible on Salmson frame, followed by six Porsche 356s on frames fresh from Gmund. In their beter years, Beutler Body equipped Bentley, Packard, Car-Union, Healey, Javelin, Jaguar...

After Jackie Stewart had won the first of his three Formula 1 Drivers' World Championship titles in 1969, driving a Ken Tyrrell-entered Matra equipped with a 3-litre Cosworth-Ford V8 engine, the Anglo-Scottish partnership found it impossible to remain with Matra for the 1970 season. This was because they were tied to the Ford engine, while Matra in France had just been acquired by the Chrysler Co...

This magnificent all-French sports-prototype is the actual car in which Henri Pescarolo/ Gerard Larrousse scored a resoundingly popular home victory in the motor sporting world's most important endurance race - the Le Mans 24-Hours.

The Shell-sponsored Matra-Simca team had won the great Le Mans race with drivers Henri Pescarolo/ Graham Hil using this prototype MS670. During that year, Matra had contested only Le Mans amongst sports car races, while taking part in its final frontline season in Formula 1 with its latest iteration MS120 single-seater cars.