The Simca Entries
Car 46 Simca Motors France, Simca 1100, B. Heu
Car 88 Simca Motors France, Simca 1100, R. Masson
Car 100 Simca Motors France, Simca 1100, P. Boucher
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Simca entered three of their 1100's. Bernard Heu took along his wife, Michelle, along as a passenger when he surveyed the route to Bombay. He said afterwards that he did not expect to win, but the Marathon would show the Simca's capabilities to their fullest extent.
Heu was sceptical about the chances of smooth passages for Marathon cars through border posts. He lost four hours on the Iran- Afghanistan border because no one had the nerve to wake up the police chief.
India was the Waterloo of many competitors. A Simca 1100, car no. 88, driven by Frenchmen Roger Masson and Jean Py, collected a telegraph pole on a sharp left hand bend 250 miles south of Delhi. The car was left on the road and the drivers airlifted to hospital in Delhi.
Alan Sawyer
Bernard Heu, driver of Car 46
Photo courtesy Daily Express Magazine
Car 100 the Simca Motors France entry Simca 1100 driven by Pierre Boucher
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Pierre Boucher, driver of car 100 - Simca 1100
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Car 46 at the service stop in Norseman Western Australia
Photo courtesy Brian Lemon
Welding repair at Norseman Western Australia
Photo courtesy Brian Lemon
Checking the front suspension at Norseman Western Australia
Photo courtesy Brian Lemon
Only 26 miles after leaving Port Augusta, the Simca team's third car, driven by Pierre Boucher was out, battered and torn.
John Smailes.
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In May, 1967 the 1100 was manufactured. It was a modern car with front-wheel-drive, transverse engine and a body with four doors and a hatchback. The introduction of the 1100 was the number one affair at SIMCA. It was initially available in 2 and 4 door hatchbacks (2 door LS = 7,750 ff, 2 door GL = 8,380 ff, 2 door GLS = 8,920 ff) and wagons (2 door LS wagon = 8,680 ff, 4 door GLS wagon = 9,380 ff).
Features included front disc brakes, rack & pinion steering, 145 x 13 tires (155 x 13 wagons), wheelbase = 99.2", length = 155.5", width = 62.6", height = 57.5", front track = 53.7", rear track = 51.6", weight = 1914lbs (2-door), 1980lbs (4-door). The new 1118cc (6cv) engine produced 53hp (din) on the LS and 56hp (din) on the GL and GLS. The Ferodo, 3 speed semi-automatic transmission was offered. The 944cc, 5cv version was introduced later for the domestic market and realized only limited success. The 1100 was the first Simca to carry the hubcaps with the Chrysler pentastar motif. The following year, the new model was already the most produced SIMCA, followed by the 1000.
1968 production total: 138,242
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