In the same collection for 22 years

First car with central rear engine

Rare, beautiful, innovative and efficient!

Collector's French car registration document

Chassis no.: 10832



It is after the break-up of the René Bonnet and Charles Deutsch alliance that the D.B.

brand is dissolved.

René Bonnet came up with the idea of a rear mid-engine in the image of the new competition Lotus.

To assert and save his new company, his specifications required a sports car, reliable, with large series parts to limit maintenance costs.

It will be with Renault that this project will take shape, thanks to the engine of the future R8 Gordini.

It was during the 1962 Paris Motor Show that the civilian version of the Djet made its debut.

It was the very first production car to take advantage of a technology that had since been democratized: the center-rear engine.

The racing version of this car had already been unveiled to the press, but its tubular chassis was considered too complicated.

The pr...