Tales of Le Mans from the Forgotten Marques — Part 1

When one thinks of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the mind turns almost invariably to the great industrial empires — Porsche, say — or to rivalries that have passed into legend: Ferrari against Ford in the 1960s, Audi against Peugeot in the first decade of the new millennium. For much of its history, however, Le Mans has been a place where anyone with enough courage, talent, and an often reckless measure of stubbornness could attempt to take on the hardest race in the world.