 When Bill Devin sold his Ferrari 250 MM coupe to a buyer in Michigan in 1954 he took a 1953 Deutsch-Bonnet Le Mans barquette in trade as partial payment.Devin also bought out the stock of a Panhard dealer in California, acquiring ten chassis with engines but no bodies.Devin designed his own ladder frame for a custom race car that used the engine and front-wheel drive transaxle from the Panhards.