Facel Vega Facel 2

The most well-known Facel, the HK500 was radically redesigned in 1961 as the Facel II. A blue example was originally delivered to Rob Walker, racing driver and team owner for whom Stirling Moss raced. He specified the car with a short rear-axle ratio, and steel disc wheels, possibly influenced by another of his drivers, Maurice Trintignant, who broke 17 spokes on another of his cars, a wire-wheeled HK500, during only one lap of the Nurburgring! Rob Walker kept the car for four years, selling it in 1966 - but retaining his famed ROB 2 registration.