The sporting Talbot-Lago TISOC chassis inspired open roadsters and closed cars, most notably a series of curvaceous coupes. Streamlined, sleek, and light enough to race competitively, they were called “Goutte d’Eau” (drop of water). In English, they quickly became known as the “Teardrop” Talbots. Between 1937 and 1939, famed Parisian coachbuilders Figoni et Falaschi created 12 “New York”-style Talbot-Lago coupes, so-called because the first was introduced at the 1937 New York Auto Show at the Grand Central Palace. Skilled craftspeople spent some 2,100 hours of painstaking handwork to complete each custom body. No two Teardrop coupes were exactly alike. In 1938, a competition-prepared T1S0C-SS Coupe finished third at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The first of the “New York”-style Teardrops, this is the car that Figoni registered to patent the model’s aerodynamic shape. Scan for automobile specs and images.