● Delivered new in Paris ● In the same hands since 1967 ● Took part in the "Paris en Fête – Paris en Vogue" show in 1985 The choice of members of European royal families, Indian Maharajas, Hollywood stars and industrial tycoons, the legendary Hispano-Suiza was magnificently designed and unabashedly imitated by some of the greatest car manufacturers.

Although the marque is of Spanish origin, it was the Hispano-Suiza models built in France that placed the marque among the foremost prestige and luxury carmakers in the aftermath of the First World War.

During the war, the most prestigious of fighter planes were equipped with Hispano-Suiza engines and, after the war, the marque adopted as its emblem the stork of the Escadrille des cigognes of French ace Georges Guynemer, whose biplane SPAD used a Hispano V8.

Unsurprisingly, the first post-war Hispanos made extensive use of this experience, with a 6,597cc six-cylinder overhead camshaft engine, designed by Marc Birkigt based on half of an ...