Panhard
24 C

Why it matters

The 24 CT was a Panhard 2+2 coupe on a shortened PL47 saloon platform with an air-cooled flat twin driving the front wheels. Its appeal was individuality and styling rather than speed, and it replaced the CD coupe whose lines the 1964 road tester called ugly.

How rare is it?

Six separate kinds of rarity – never combined into one number.

Each kind of rarity is rated separately and never combined.

Production

Every figure says what it counts.

Independent counts (e.g. engine and colour) are never combined into a calculated figure. Surviving examples are never presented as original production.

History

Motor Sport tested the 24CT in 1964 as the latest Panhard model, a subsidiary of Citroen. The test car had the Tigre-tune version of the 848 cc flat twin with 60 bhp gross, one Zenith carburettor and an 8.0:1 compression ratio. The mechanical specification was that of the PL47 saloon, but the wheelbase was nearly a foot shorter.

The tester praised the road-holding, front-drive cornering and brakes, and criticised the lumpy, noisy twin, the gearchange and the clutch pedal. In England the car cost 1,329 pounds 14s 7d through Citroen Cars of Slough, and a supercharged CD version was due at Le Mans that month.

Technical specifications

Engine

Transmission & drivetrain

Chassis, body & dimensions

Performance

“Not yet verified” means no source has been checked for that value yet. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap.

Identification guide

How to tell an original from a replica or later conversion.

Recognition points from the 1964 road test: low roofline, dual headlamps recessed behind a single panel deep in the front wing, large finned brake drums that show through the wheels, frameless rear side windows that open as extractor vents, a forward-hinged self-supporting bonnet, and high-set number plates with corrugated characters. The interior has an oval single-spoke steering wheel, a Jaeger speedometer and tachometer, and red lamps in the trailing edges of the doors.

Sources

Each number links to the exact facts it supports.

1. 1
   L'Automobile Sportive – Panhard 24 BT/CT guide Level B

   • 1623 units sold

   Accessed 2026-11-12
2. 2
   I for Individuality: Road Impressions of the Panhard 24CT (Bill Boddy) Level C Motor Sport Magazine, June 1964

   • 848-c.c. air-cooled twin-cylinder coupe
   • horizontally-opposed engine
   • two ducted 84.8 x 75 mm. cylinders
   • modest c.r. of 8.0 to 1
   • o.h.v. engine with those torsion-bar valve springs
   • endowed with but one Zenith carburetter
   • develops 60 (gross) b.h.p. at 6,000 r.p.m.
   • 60 (gross) b.h.p. at 6,000 r.p.m.
   • all-synchromesh 4-speed gearbox
   • 90 m.p.h. in the 4.52-to-1 top cog
   • pulled round by its front-wheel drive
   • upper and lower transverse leaf-spring front suspension
   • triple transverse torsion-bars for the dead V-beam back axle
   • Lockheed servo-assisted brakes
   • big cast-alloy drum brakes
   • rack-and-pinion steering ... 2 7/16 turns, lock-to-lock
   • wheelbase is nearly a foot shorter, at 7 ft. 6 in.
   • will wind up ... to 90 m.p.h. in the 4.52-to-1 top cog
   • up to 60 m.p.h. ... in about the same [22.5] elapsed time
   • over a s.s. 1/4-mile in 22 1/2 sec
   • the tank is said to contain 9 1/4 gallons

   Accessed 2026-11-13