Peugeot Type 9 3.75-hp Vis-à-vis

Guhtta logi jagi lea dakkaviissis duddjon dán Peugeot franskas castellis, gos dan gávdno 1980:s.

Seventy years has this Peugeot Type 9 been immured in a French castle, where it is discovered in 1980. It is one of the sixteen remaining examples of this type and one of the very few still in roadworthy condition. Since 1981 the car has been used frequently in the annual London to Brighton Run. For many years it carried starting number 1, as the oldest participating car. According to the factory data the car can easily maintain a cruising speed of 18 to 20 km/h on flat roads, and when fully loaded it can even climb a steep hill at 10 km/h. Like all Peugeots from the first series this car has a rear mounted Daimler V twin engine with hot tube ignition, heated by a burner. The steering points straight down and consists only of a bracket with two hand grips. Remarkably, the cooling water of the engine is stored in the chassis tubes, a construction that many decades later was used again in Grand Prix racing cars.