Bing, Bang... Bignan

Founded by Jacques Bignan in 1918, the Bignan Sport was built in Courbevoie, a suburb in the West of Paris. The first model was a 17 CV equipped with a 4 cylinder engine (85 x 130) which was produced until 1922. A quite good car which allows Albert Guyot to win the Grand Prix de Corse. Then, from 1923, a smaller model, the type 17000, a 2 liter straight four engine was built until 1929. Some of these cars raced in competition with few successes: the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1923, the 24 hours of SPA in 1924.

In 1926, the company is bankrupted and bought by Emile Précloux. The new Bignan cars are then mounted with CIME, SCAP or Salmson engine. The production completely stopped in 1931.