Vehicle Description
This great original example has 57,000 original kilometers (mileage
not indicated on title). As one of the two oldest manufacturers of
automobiles in the world, Panhard and Levassor of Paris presented
in early 1954 a new Dyna model. Constructed of aluminum and having
a total weight of 1,630 pounds, it was even lighter than the
Volkswagen of the time. There were very few cars that had the
combination of interior room, trunk space, styling and, most
importantly, the performance-based power plant. With four doors and
two large bench seats, it was well-suited as a family car. Being a
light car and having a 50bhp 2-cylinder engine with 4-speed manual
transmission, it had enough power, along with plenty of fuel
economy, to make this unique front-wheel-drive car desirable to the
American market.
