A car which will open Dors.

[Gob]

The car, a turquoise sports car made in 1949 by French manufacturers Delahaye, was bought for the young actress by Sir John Gaul, a friend of Prince Rainier of Monaco and a resident of Monte Carlo. Dors was just 17 years old at the time.

Dors died in 1984, by which time the car had long been sold and taken to Colorado. It has been completely restored in the last decade, including its original six-cylinder, 165-horsepower engine and "four-speed electro-mechanically actuated Cotal Preselector gearbox".

Just 150 of the Roadsters were made, and just 51 of the 175S, as few motorists in austere post-war Europe could afford the extravagant machine. Its bodywork was designed by Jacques Saoutchik, a Ukrainian-born furniture maker. RM Auctions describe it as combining "the French curves of the thirties... with more modern baroque ornamentation", with a beautiful profile and fully enclosed wheels.

Mr Squindo said: "There was a tradition in France and other parts of Europe in which coach-building companies would take a chassis and engine and do the bodywork.

"They were often outlandish designs, and many were built just for shows and for impressing people. This car was made when this coach-built era was almost at an end, but this is one of the most spectacular and outrageous examples."

It is far from clear why Dors needed the car: she could not, at the time she was given it, actually drive. Mr Squindo said: "She didn't even have a licence, but it was curvaceous, sexy and flamboyant, just like her. There will be plenty of collectors from around the world who want it." That didn't stop her: three years later, at 20, she became the youngest registered owner of a Rolls-Royce in the UK.

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[dales]

OMG.

Beautiful, stunning, gorgeous.

I believe there's one at Blackhawk Museum in Danville (all you SF Bay Area Residents).