Luc Méloua

[1] Méloua was born in Paris, France, to Georgian parents who had left their country after the Russian Red Army's invasion.

At ESTACA he met two future French drivers, Jean-Pierre Beltoise (Formula One) and Jean-Louis Marnat (24 Hours of Le Mans).

He joined the French flight-test center (Centre d’essais en vol) of Brétigny-sur-Orge, and began to work as both a motorist and journalist.

At the end of the 1950s, and in the 1960s, Méloua was a technical officer for the French Federation of Motorcycles (FFM) and an engines controller for races such as Bol d'or, Coupe du Salon and the Lapize hill climbing event.

In 1973, with three journalists from the French magazine Sport Auto (Gérard Crombac, Thierry Lalande and Jean-Louis Moncet), he built a low-cost kit car in two days.