1919 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Torpedo Skiff, coachwork by Barker, design was inspired by the French coachbuilder Henri Labourdette, and was commissioned by the Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh of Patiala

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1947 Irat, a french boutique car builder with style, body by Labourdette

In 1910 the director of the automobile service to the General Electric Company, 20 year old Georges Irat began trying to build a car, and finally achieved success at the Paris Motor Show in 1935 with the presentation of small roadsters and convertible front-wheel drive.

After the war, Georges Irat abandoned this production and specialized in electric cars made in Begles in the suburbs of Bordeaux.

At the same time, he developed a new car and presented at the Paris Salon 1946 a revolutionary prototype mounted on a magnesium frame.

At the time, the success in the face of the competition was not to be, and the prototype marked the end of the automobile adventure of George Irat. Only the bodywork of this car attributed to the famous coachbuilder Labourdette was found in the factory of Bègles. It was mounted to a Simca for the purposes of demonstrating for posterity the design and possibilities of the Irat car.

http://www.artcurial.com/en/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=2877+++++184+&refno=10539950&image=21
http://www.viaretro.com/2016/08/monsieur-irats-aabne-bil-for-labourdette/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/classiccarshows/with/29171515593/

http://anyskin.tumblr.com/post/121665013517/vaultek-les-automobiles-georges-irat#notes

a 1922 Labourdette Sliver Ghost, and I've never heard of Labourdette working up a silver ghost

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why do I mention Labourdette like you should know what I'm talking about? Because of the incredible Mercedes that stick in my head, so unforgettable, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/09/1912-mercedes-model-37-with-perfect.html  and the unreal 1939 Rolls Royce Phantom III Labourdette Vutotal which I bet you immediately see and think, oh hell, that stunning car

This makes me say god damn... how the hell anyone envisions this masterpiece, and then actually makes it happen, flawlessly, to plan... blows my tiny pea brain

So yeah, when I say Labourdette, I figure some of you readers will recall the stupendous cars I've shown you made by that French master carrossier 

Some carozzeria are like that to me, one example of their work just stands out of my memory bank of cars and smacks me in the brain like a basketball to the face. The Jonkheere Rolls is another example, and so is the Vanvooren name, see the next post

1939 Rolls Royce Phantom III Labourdette Vutotal

Rebodied in 1947 by Labourdette of Paris, this Phantom III was the designer's last and arguably most daring work. It was commissioned by the flamboyant Louis Ritter who let Labourdette go all out, so much so, the body alone cost $44 000 which made it one of the most expensive of its time- equal to around $375 000 in 2003

After it was transformed into Labourdette’s creation, the car was sold off to different owners, including a New York plastic surgeon, a drug dealer who ended up in a Cuban prison and even S. Mars, possibly of the candy empire. In the winter of 2005 John W. Rich of Pottsville, Pennsylvania purchased the car for his extensive collection.

this car was at the 2007 Pebble Beach Concours
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photos from http://www.tuningforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=112&t=78130 via http://stipistop.com/

bottom 4 photos from http://trendland.com/1939-rolls-royce-phantom-iii-cabriolet/#