Serial number C249

Good condition

Desirable Volvo-engined version

Known history - 25,727 kilometres

French car registration document

This Facel-Vega Facel III with serial number 249 was delivered on 10 June 1964 by Ets.

Dumond in Lyon following the order 9435.

This is the Facel III with production number 4249, a car with engine number 145.

The car was thus iridescent Facel blue with a beige interior.

It had the wheel covers, the watch, the Overdrive and the 4.56 axle.

Between 1966 and 2010, the car would not have changed hands until it arrived at Passion Classic Auto in Nice, which will undertake its restoration.

They then described FBC 249 as "a genuine first hand with 17,000 certified kilometres".

Indeed, in its first life, the Facel belonged to a couple from the Saint-Etienne area, following a slight accident in the early 1970s, the car was repainted in the best possible way, but in a different blue from the original.

Owning other cars, including an Alfa-Romeo 2600 Spri...