Racing Origins
Deutsch and Bonnet had been promised a works drive in the 1936 French GP for sports cars, but when this failed to materialize they set about building their own racer. The 1938 DB1 was a special, built using the remains of a Citroën Traction Avant 11CV. A series of numbered successors followed, with a DB4 in 1945 and a 2-liter DB5. Their two specials both placed in the first postwar race in France, in Paris in 1945. An open-wheeled DB7 appeared in 1947, after which the Automobiles Deutsch & Bonnet was officially formed. Their early cars were all built using Citroën parts, but supply was troublesome and DB soon moved on to using Panhard technology.
DB was very active in competition especially in Le Mans 24 Hours.
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