Heuliez Stars and Stripes

The Heuliez Stars and Stripes was the open version of the Heuliez Atlantic, the two seat coupe concept car that the French coachbuilder Heuliez unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in October 1986. According to the Artcurial auction house, the Atlantic was turned into a spider in 1987 by removing its roof, then renamed Stars & Stripes, and it went round the European motor shows again on the Heuliez stand. Story Cars adds that the convertible had removable doors and blue wheels in place of the white wheels of the Atlantic. The car was later repainted yellow and badged for Renault, so that it could represent Heuliez at the 1990 opening of a styling site at Colombes. The example that Artcurial sold is a mock-up on wheels with neither mechanical parts nor steering, which shows that the Stars and Stripes was a styling exercise built to promote the Atlantic design.