Bracq Friday

While the mindless zombie consumers of the world flock to brick-n-mortar stores to pay retail prices for cheaply assembled consumer goods, we at Daily Turismo take a different approach.  Instead of celebrating Black Friday, we celebrate Bracq Friday — a festival of all the good stuff designed by famous French-born designer of German cars, Paul Bracq.

Paul Bracq is a French born mustache enthusiast who created the graceful shape of icons like the BMW 7-series, 6-series, E21 3-series, MB W113 SL, W108, W100 (aka 600 or Großer Mercedes) W111, W114, multiple Popemobiles and the French TGV high speed train. You can read more about the man here on his website PaulBracq.com or a summary of his accomplishments in this Petrolicious article. Oh yeah, he’s also an accomplished painter. Now an octogenarian, he’s created Les Ateliers Paul Bracq in Bordeaux as a full-service restoration shop for the classic Mercedes-Benz cars that he designed in the first place. With a resume like that, we can’t help but assemble a virtual collection of his best automotive work.