Strange stuff, but Voisin was certainly unique

 This photo is titled 'Corbusier 1931'. The car is a 1927 Avions Voisin C11 Saloon. The building is Le Corbusier designed Villa Savoye,  which is radiused to a turning circle of a car which however was not a Voisin but 1927 Citroen.

the work of the famous architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known since 1920 as "Le Corbusier" who incidentally also had a passion for cars of its time.

from Dr. Christopher Wilson, Architecture and Design Historian, writing about early Modernist architects taking photographs of buildings with automobiles in front of them.

http://refinement.livejournal.com/259849.html
http://misfitsarchitecture.com/tag/villa-savoye/ 

6 year later update on the Citreon that was cannabilized to make a scooter to get out of the Sahara back in 1993

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/survival-of-innovator-broken-2cv-no.html  for the original story I posted in 2009

His ingenious engineering saw him convert the car's rear bumper into a rudimentary seat, shorten the chassis, and place the engine and gearbox in the middle to create a vehicle which somehow kept going long enough to transport him to safety.

The 43-year-old had been driving his Citroen 2CV across the desert from the Moroccan city of Tan-Tan.

The going was easy and he regularly fell off the seat, which was made from part of the car's rear bumper. After a day of riding Emile was picked up by the Moroccan police who drove him to the nearest village. They also handed him a hefty fine because the registration documents for his car no longer corresponded to what he was driving.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168061/French-electrician-stranded-Moroccan-desert-rebuilt-wrecked-car-motorbike-drove-civilisation.html

original post http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/survival-of-innovator-broken-2cv-no.html