Hello friendly Don, nice to here from you again! Its strange how false information about the cars gets repeated, finds its way into books and then is taken as fact like the thing about the paul Vallee chassis's. Like the story about the blue inter that belongs to Ken Weger in the USA, the story about how it has a 125 sans permis motor by special order of the first buyer. Yesturday I found photographs that I had taken of this car before it went to the states [ the shipper is a friend of mine and invited me to view the car before it was shipped] I have a photo of the chassis plate and it clearly says Cylindree 175. Type 175a and strangely chassis number 1175. So there may be a 125cc out there somewhere but it certainly isnt this car!
Well jigger my gyrostarter!! do you know Donald, I have just realised something about my own Inter, seeing Kens cars chassis number reminds me that Inter numbers have a number one in front of them, so kens car is really number 175, we know this because only between two and three hundred cars were made. Well when I got my car from Gilles, he told me mine was car number five. I later found 15 stamped on the body [the early ones do not have a chassis plate] and argued with him that it was the fifteenth car produced and not the fifth, I have just realised that he was correct! The number one in front is not counted, what a fool I have been !!! I will have to contact Jean and have it changed on the register or at least explain that althought the chassis number is 15 it is in fact car number five. As Del boy, would say, "Bob, you plonker!!!"