So I was wrong about the 'Vedette sports coupe'. Tuns out it was the 1954 Ford Facel Comete.
automotorpad.com/ford/248020-ford-comete-facel.html
This one even has Navarro heads:
There were also the military flatheds:
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Born-again Flathead | Hemmings
Commissioned by the French military for four-wheel-drive vehicles, these blocks were improved in many ways, with front sections that resembled pre-'49 flatheads and rear sections, and detachable bellhousings like post-'48 Ford 8BAs or Mercury 8CMs. Some had four-inch cranks like the 1949 to '53 255-cu.in. Mercury block.
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Chrysler didn't have a small car program?
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There's that one shot of a clay buck from the 1930s. It could very well have had the Pentastar drivetrain, which had a 5-cylinder radial and 3-speed with front wheel drive. It out-Beetled the Beetle before there was a Beetle, but never made it to market.