2,327 cc inline six-cylinder sleeve valve engine, three-speed manual gearbox, front and rear semi-elliptic leaf springs, and four-wheel drum brakes.

Wheelbase: 3,220 mm • Older restoration of an unusual design on a desirable C11 chassis • Stunning cane-work and detailing It is widely thought that the C11 was probably the most popular selling of all the Voisins, with its very successful inline six-cylinder sleeve valve engine that was used well into the 1930s.

According to the Voisin book Voisin 1919-1958 by Pascal Courteault, chassis 24681 was ordered with a special body, not typical of the Voisin art deco design.

The book explains that Gabriel Voisin would not have approved of the design, but it was impossible to fight against the imagination and unconventional ideas and the new client’s style of the late 1920s.

Voisin was notorious for moving away from the typical design of other coachbuilders of that era and created some of the most spectacular designs, which grace the concours ...