Editing Facel Vega (section)

===Prominence===
Prominent owners of Facel Vegas (mainly of Facel IIs) included [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Ava Gardner]], [[Christian Dior]], [[Herb Alpert]], [[Joan Collins]], [[Ringo Starr]], [[Max Factor]] Jr, [[Joan Fontaine]], [[Stirling Moss]], [[Tony Curtis]], several [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] princes, [[Dean Martin]], [[Fred Astaire]], [[Danny Kaye]], [[Louis Malle]], The [[President of Mexico]], [[François Truffaut]], [[Robert Wagner]], [[Anthony Quinn]], [[Hassan II of Morocco|Hassan II, King of Morocco]], [[Debbie Reynolds]], the [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah of Iran]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Maurice Trintignant]], [[Brian Rix]], Joe Hepworth and French Embassies around the world.<ref>Hervé Alphand, the French Ambassador to the United States, used theirs, an Excellence, from 1956 to 1965. It was sold @ Bonhams in Philadelphia 8 Oct 2012 for $159,000.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQrwbzDTvSQ  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/tQrwbzDTvSQ| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Top Gear Facel Vega HK500 |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-07-26 |access-date=2016-05-15}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070302/FREE/70223002/1027/FREE|title=1959 Facel Vega HK500: For the Few Who Own the Finest|first1=Eric|last1=Tegler|date=March 1, 2007|magazine=[[Autoweek]]}}</ref>  Race-car driver [[Stirling Moss]] would drive his HK500 from event to event rather than fly.

French writer and Nobel Prize winner [[Albert Camus]] died in a Facel Vega FV2 driven by his publisher's nephew, [[Michel Gallimard]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Smith |first=Patrick |title=Lost Star Cars: The Albert Camus Facel Vega |date=2014-12-21 |url=https://phscollectorcarworld.blogspot.com/2014/12/lost-star-cars-albert-camus-facel-vega.html |publisher= |access-date=2021-04-19}}</ref> At the time of his death, Camus had planned to travel by train, with his wife and children, but at the last minute accepted Gallimard's proposal to travel with him instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raimes.com/seminar.htm |title=KIAD MA in Fine Art: a student run seminar |publisher=Raimes.com |access-date=2009-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513004641/http://www.raimes.com/seminar.htm |archive-date=May 13, 2009 }}</ref>