Editing DB (car) (section)

==Road cars==
The 1949 DB8 was bodied by Antem of Belgium and shown at the 1949 Paris Salon.<ref name=Rampal2>{{cite web|url=http://panhard.racing.free.fr/?page_id=4290 |title=La DB Citroën N°5 |trans-title=DB Citroën no. 5 |first=Charly |last=Rampal |work=Panhard Racing Team |date=2010 |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626144723/http://panhard.racing.free.fr/?page_id=4290 |archive-date=2015-06-26 }}</ref> While a handsome (winning two concours d'élegances) and modern design, Citroën refused to allow the provision of parts for series production.<ref name=Rampal2/> After DB began to depend on Panhard for engines, Antem was again commissioned to make a cabriolet with the intent to build a small series of street cars.<ref name=Rampal3>{{cite web|url=http://panhard.racing.free.fr/?page_id=4622 |title=DB-Antem |first=Charly |last=Rampal |work=Panhard Racing Team |date=2014 |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627165023/http://panhard.racing.free.fr/?page_id=4622 |archive-date=2015-06-27 }}</ref> {{convert|3750|mm|in|abbr=on|comma=5}} long, the car weighed {{convert|500|kg|lb|abbr=on}} and used the Dyna's 750&nbsp;cc flat-two and much of the suspension and drivetrain. As with most DBs, it had a central frame with two outliers.<ref name=Rampal3/> An 850&nbsp;cc version was also offered, a model which could reach 140 rather than the 125–130&nbsp;km/h of the smaller one. Naturally, Panhard developed a racing ''barquette'' version (called the Tank) of the Antem cabriolet. These competed at Le Mans 1951 as well as several other races.<ref name=Rampal3/> About twenty Antem cabriolets were built in 1951, but DB chose to let it die in favor of a coupé version of the same ("Coach" in French).<ref name=Rampal3/> A few DB-Antem Coach were built, mostly for competition. These had bodywork designed by Deutsch, and again mainly relied on Dyna underpinnings and a central steel-tube frame.<ref name=AQ63>[[#AQ181|Borgeson]], p. 63</ref>

The steel-bodied, [[Pietro Frua|Frua]]-designed 1952 "[[DB Mille Miles|Mille Miles]]" (celebrating class victories at the [[Mille Miglia]]) was a mini-GT with a 65&nbsp;hp Panhard two-cylinder. It was somewhat expensive, and at the 1953 [[Paris Motor Show|Paris Salon]] a Chausson-designed DB Coach in fibreglass, although it did not enter production until 1954. The '''[[DB HBR 5|HBR 4/5]]''' model (1954–1959) was the partners' most successful project to date, with several hundred of the little cars produced between 1954 and 1959.<ref name=Automobilia1953>{{cite journal| first = René | last = Bellu | journal =Automobilia| title = Toutes les voitures françaises 1953 (salon Paris oct 1952)| volume = 19| language = fr | page = 20 | date = 2000|publisher=Histoire & collections|location=Paris }}</ref>  This was followed by the '''[[DB Le Mans|Le Mans]]''' convertible and hardtop, which was shown in 1959 and built by DB until 1962, and continued until 1964 by [[Automobiles René Bonnet|René Bonnet]]. About 660 of the Mille Miles/Coach/HBR were built, and 232 DB Le Mans<ref name="Retroviseur10.08"/> (not including the Bonnet-built cars). Later versions could be equipped with engines of 1 and 1.3&nbsp;litres, and superchargers were also available. No two cars may have been alike, as they were built according to customer specifications from a wide range of options.