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1959 Facel Vega HK500

Well, well, well — what do we have here? Why it's one of our Fantasy Garage cars, the Facel Vega HK500! And it can be yours for the Buy It Now price of just $75,000. Or, you can see where the auction takes you. As of right now, just two bids. The car was purchased in Germany, driven around Europe and has been living in the rust-free car utopia that is the SF Bay Area for the past 49 years. You gotta love the people that bought these things — check this out: More »

4:15 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Jonny Lieberman
2,207 views, 45 comments

Latest by austinminiman: I have to say, I really appreciate that the owner has driven it. 6,000 miles in 6 years isn't a ton, but it is serving its purpose. As much as I love watching Barett-Jackson, I hate seeing these 350 original more »

retro

Facel Vega Facellias in Pasadena Circa 1961

This picture comes to Jalopnik by way of our pal Scott via archivist superstar Charles Phoenix who scanned it out of a copy of the Los Angeles Times from 1961 then gave to Scott who gave it to us and swallowed the spider that ate the fly. What's a Facellia? A watered down Facel Vega. The Facellia is to the HK500 as the 190 SL is to the 300 SL. Smaller. Cheaper. Weaker. Got it? Good. Bigger pic right here.

5:15 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
900 views, 10 comments

Latest by Bazza: looks like the Ford Edsel and Lagonda Rapide (the 60's model!) more »

commenter of the day

Commenter of the Day: Existential Crisis Edition

We're sure it will come as a shock to no one that Davey G and I routinely debate Fantasy Garage nominations deep into the early morn. Even less shocking was Mr. Johnson's reaction to the Facel Vega HK500, which I believe he called, "A motherfucker of a car." Then we got to arguing about the various merits and demerits of other French l'automobiles. We were both initially torn between the Citroen SM and the HK500, though I eventually sided with the Facel Vega. Davey meanwhile went a step further and declared the streamlined Voisin C28 Aerosport to be the greatest French car ever. I countered that I'll take the Veyron, thank you. To which Davey replied that the Ferrari 308 is his favorite car, ever. That of course leads us to today's winning Commenter... More »

5:45 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
1,383 views, 21 comments

Latest by JoeWoodsprite: It looks like an Edsel that shrunk in the wash. more »

jalopnik fantasy garage

Facel Vega HK500

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
—Albert Camus
The French are leaders in ashtray technology.
—Davey G. JohnsonIn the annals of all that is car, certain vehicles stand out. Others tend to leap. A very select group however, reaches right into your chest, squeezes you around the heart and won't ever let go. The Facel Vega HK500 is such a machine and it's two clicks past high time we induct it into our Fantasy Garage.
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Feature

12:00 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
6,094 views, 67 comments

Latest by manfrommarrs: Facel Vega HK500. Why is the Cobra (another hybrid) so revered when the Facel is so often derided, Is it not a coachbuilt equivalent? With nearly 400 BHP (I have heard that the name HK500 comes from the ratio Horses more »

the naked ladies dance and die here

Par Excellence! Suicide Facel Vega

Given of today's nomination for the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage, the ridiculously-fab Citroën SM, as well as the exhortations of commenter Teds, we thought we'd go ahead and drop one on the Facel Vega Excellence, which was kind of the Gallic, Hemi-powered version of the Lincoln Continental that inspired the Misfits' "Bullet." Because, well, it was. Ride, Jacque O. – Davey G. Johnson More »

2:45 PM on Tue May 29 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
1,651 views, 5 comments

retro

Killing an Author: The Facel Vega, Frankish Hemi-Powered Existentialist Death Machine

Albert Camus, the renowned French author and early inspiration to the Cure's Robert Smith, met his end in one of these fantastic, rare luxury cars. The Facel Vega, unlike the maligned Chevrolet model wearing the same appelation, was a marvelous creation, combining European design with American Hemi power (initially DeSoto, then Chrysler). They're still relatively cheap for such rare cars, and we'd love to see somebody cut one up and drop a blown alcohol Donovan 392 into the engine bay. More »

12:46 PM on Fri Jul 29 2005
By Davey G. Johnson
422 views