A special 1965 Citroen DS21 with coachwork from Henri Chapron is currently listed for sale from Hyman.Ltd in St. Louis, Missouri with a $189,500 asking price.
In the years after Citroen unveiled the space-age DS at the 1955 Paris Auto Salon, Henri Chapron was so enamored with what he saw that he purchased one directly from the factory and converted it into a Cabriolet. Citroen was impressed with his customized DS and soon started selling and supplying Chapron with DS models that it could convert into limited-run models for individual clients.
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Among Chapron’s creations were the Dandy fixed head coupe, four-seat Concorde coupe, the Majesty limousine, and the Decapotable cabriolet.
The vehicle you’re looking at is one of just 35 DS21 Concorde coupe models built by Chapron and left the coachbuilder’s facility on the 10th of December, 1965, roughly two months after arriving for its conversion.
The car was built for French architect Monsieur Jean Lavail and features everything from power windows to leather trim, an optional Jaeger instrument cluster, Radiomatic FM radio with automatic Hirschmann antenna, Marchal fog lamps, and Robergel wire wheels. Adorning the exterior is a Midnight Blue and Shell Gray paint scheme. The conversion cost the architect the equivalent of $8,000 which is roughly $65,516 in today’s money. It’s not stated in the listing when the car made its way to the United States but it is thought to have spent most of its life in France.