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by wazoox 1086 days ago
It feels somewhat exaggerated. These late Panhard are notorious for their finicky, aluminium-made air-cooled engines, however the parts can mostly be rebuild from scratch using a mill, a lathe and other common workshop tools. My grandfather (a mechanic) used to do that a lot back in the 60s for rare cars such as Bugattis.
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The brand was pretty popular at some point, and there are a lot of enthusiasts, even a federation of Panhard fanclubs. When asking a workshop for some part, whether machining or molding or whatever, they generally group their needs to make runs of tens or hundreds of parts to make it viable.

Also I'm not talking about the CD, which is a race car and a different kind of beast, but most of their other models, from the start of the 20th century until the 60s.