{"id":808051,"date":"2024-01-03T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T05:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=515159"},"modified":"2024-06-05T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T13:31:53","slug":"a-week-end-for-bardot-1954-simca-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/a-week-end-for-bardot-1954-simca-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week-End for Bardot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>It is unlikely that most of us can picture a Simca that is not one of the econoboxes that the company exported to the US in the late \u201860s and \u201870s. It is also unlikely that most of us knew that the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon sold at US dealerships were also Simcas. The company formerly known as St\u00e9 Industrielle M\u00e9canique et Carrosserie Automobile, or S.I.M.C.A., built some interesting and some not very interesting cars from when it was founded in 1935 until its demise in 1980 as Chrysler France.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">S.I.M.C.A.<\/h2>\n<p>It is unlikely that Giovanni Agnelli had the creation of a new marque in mind when he sent Teodoro Enrico Pigozzi to France in1924. Pigozzi\u2019s mission was to buy scrap metal to be used by Fiat in Italy to build their cars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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The company formerly known as St\u00e9 Industrielle M\u00e9canique et Carrosserie Automobile, or S.I.M.C.A., built some interesting and some not very interesting cars from when it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":808345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11272,5845,18207],"tags":[17140,1875,21069,17143],"class_list":["post-808051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-simca","category-special-feature","tag-members-only","tag-simca","tag-simca-featured","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Week-End for Bardot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is unlikely that most of us can picture a Simca that is not one of the econoboxes that the company exported to the US in the late \u201860s and \u201870s. 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