From innocence to lust

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Take a car, a girl and a photographer and one of them will start about ‘lying on the bonnet’. Old to new, young to mature, stalwart to naive: it’s a classic pose. And manufacturers use it on shows, in their press pictures and advertisements. What would have been the target audience for this French little rascal - the Simca 1000 Coupé? The picture may suggest it’s her car, used for nippy drives from and to that utterly modern drive-in bungalow (the year is 1962). On the other hand the car was sporty enough to attract budding boy racers – the one-litre engine had been treated with a higher compression ratio, there were disc brakes all-round and there was the sharp styling by Bertone.

The answer is provided by another picture, outdating the one above with some eight years. By that time the sweet sixties had made place for the saucy seventies and the Simca 1000 Coupé had grown into the Simca 1200S Coupé. A girl was still seen posing on the car’s bonnet – but the innocence had now definitely gone. Yep. This was meant for boy racers.
 

Words and archive picture Jeroen Booij

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