HD Video – 1953 Gordini 24S Blasts Around Its Favorite Tracks Before RM Auctions Paris Sale

 This car defies logic. On one hand, it looks adorable and cute. So narrow and low, with the blue bodywork peeled back around the exhaust manifold and the straight-cut pipes.

Watch the below… The Gordini starts to howl at about the half-way mark of this video preview. Kudos to its bold driver, who is not shy with the loud pedal.

Firing up the 24S takes a prod onto an organ-stop switch – included as the fuel cutoff for racing.

This very car won the Tour de France (a car race at the time…) and also traded paint with Porsche and Mercedes-Benz in the Carrera Panamericana, around Le Mans itself, and numerous others.

This is true pedigree: a racing Gordini in flawless, presentation-condition. No pre-sale estimate is available yet, but the charming story of this 24S and its beautiful French Racing Blue color should ensure a seven-digit sale price.

For the 60-year-old racecar to be so eager, so soulful, and clearly very fast around its old favorite tracks — is a magnificent and important piece of racing history.

The one-of-a-kind 1953 Gordini 24S will be sold by RM Auctions in Paris on February 5th, 2014.

Images courtesy of RM Auctions

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