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First Owner Subsequent Owners
Details
187TA
Binder Drophead Sedanca Coupé 1935
Albert Hillaert of 15 rue du Louvre, Paris 1er, France.
Ralph Stuart Smith (1953, FRA); Ralph Stein (1958, USA); Nicola G. Petroff (1961, USA); Steven R. Wolf (2009-2015>, USA).
French coachmaker Binder called 187TA a “cabriolet” which, in French, described a two-door drophead instead of a four-door convertible in English. The original owner laid the car up during the war but he died in 1945 and 187TA was only discovered four years later!
Ralph Stein (1909-1994) was UPI’s editor in France, but also an automotive author and cartoonist. Nic Petroff owned 187TA for forty-seven years and he published a “cars and their owners” article in the RREC Bulletin #205 (July-August 1994). After a careful restoration by Vantage Motorworks of Boca Raton, 187TA was First in Class at the Amelia Island Concours in 2009.
187TA was fitted with Marchal headlamps, Marchal no.8 sidelamps and metric-only instruments.
Dufaux hand-controlled shock dampers were specified and the woodwork was made of Thuja.
Engine: SV75; Maker (Body No.), Body (Design No.): Binder 5869, Drophead Sedanca Coupé; Off-Test: 29 April, 1935
6375-RJ8 FRA; 2192-BW-75 FRA; YP-555 CT; 11-C OH
RRB June 1938/20, RRB Sep 1938/31, RRB Dec 1938/9, FL/407-534-1368-2239-9255-9264-9631-9673- 9744-9746, GENTILE/237-243, B205/1-57-58, B273/6
Registration Illustrations
187TA was featured in the French press a few months after delivery.
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