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Don't make fun of me, but...what kind of car is this?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by BAILEIGH INC, Jul 19, 2009.

  1. Ned Ludd
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    Don't forget the Hotchkiss sixes of that era.

    Though it was more down to the coachbuilders. Four-wheel skirts with that characteristic brightwork was something of a trademark of Figoni & Falaschi (or "Phoney & Flashy" to those with more restrained tastes). They did some beautiful stuff, but lost it entirely when they tried to apply the same approach to the nose-heavy ch***is of ten years later.

    Saoutchik had much the same appeal but tended to be subtler; the same could be said of Binder. In Switzerland, Graber sometimes actually pulled off the Figoni & Falaschi thing better than F&F themselves. Later they did a lot of very clean stuff with the stacked/canted-quad look. Some of the best work was done by Belgian houses like Vesters & Neirinck.

    This is by Franay:
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    A cool resource: http://www.coachbuild.com/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=50
     
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  2. Ned Ludd
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    I like the look of this Delage by Purtout:
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  3. HOTRODPRIMER
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    This is a photo of the car splinter refered to in the above comment and it was indeed commisioned by the late Boyd Coddington.

    The Whatthehaye was a handcrafted all steel car built by Marcel Delay and was influenced by the 1936 french coachwork of Delahaye.

    It was built to be a custom/hot rod,,,the car is not as elegant as the Delahayes,but I wouldn't call it a abortion.

    Big difference in a stand the test of time French cl***ic and a American built hot rod,,the only simularity is the art deco look,,, HRP


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  4. Weasel
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    The Delahaye was found by Jacques Harguindeguy - a Basque who came to America in 1950. He had a p***ion for these cars - he lived in Walnut Creek CA and had the car painted by Perfect Reflections in Hayward, CA. Jacques p***ed in October 2007.

    Here is a before shot of the car....

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  5. pimpin paint
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    Hey Baileigh,

    Don't feel bad 'bout not knowing a Delehaye when ya saw one, A buddy of mine , a car guy, once found a '38 Ford Standard that someone had stolen all the emblems off of, he really thought he had found a rare French prewar vehicle!

    Of all the automotive designs rendered in the "Art Deco" style few if any did it so as the frogs. The English came close eg. Gurney Nutting &Thrupp & Malberly. When the American coachbuilders tried "Deco" on a small wheelbased car it looked like a dwarf in a tux! The Italians came real close with some of Ghia's and Farina's work. I've always thought that the lines of the prewar French coachbuilt vehicles are what Harry Westergard & Jimmy Summers were looking to for ideas when they built their early kustoms.

    S****ey Devils C.C.
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  6. Weasel
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    Well this is Italian and rivals anything the French built - 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Coupe rebodied by Viotti in 1934. Besides, Ovidio Falaschi, Joseph Figoni, Ettore Bugatti and Tony Lago were all of Italian origin...

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  7. Steves32
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    I'll take the steering wheel. I'd bet I can't afford that either. :eek:

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  8. duste01
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    Man that would drive me nuts that the middle two lens's dont match on the red car in the first picture. pretty though.
     
  9. lewislynn
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    It looks like something from one of those 50's (maybe 30's?) cartoons that a slender, slick, wolf looking character wearing a big hat with a long feather, spats and a zoot suit might be driving...
     
  10. Ned Ludd
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    Agreed. I found this while doing an image search for "Thrupp & Maberly":
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    It's on a Packard. Through it does recall the "aero-saloon" body seen on Bentley 4¼s and such, the C-pillar line is quite different; so I'm not sure if that's T&M's work. It's a bit awkward: it needs a bright side spear curving down to the rear fender.
     
  11. Ned Ludd
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    Windovers, on a RR:
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    Barker, on another:
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    Nice 4¼ Bentley in the foreground.
     
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  12. lowsquire
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    my Dads car, similar lineage to the delahayes pictured, figoni and Falaschi body.
    1936 D6-70 lemans.
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  13. thebigdaddyo
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    I believe the Delahayes were powered by the same design engine they ran at Lemans, so they were hot rods of sorts, just a frenchie way of doing it. THE most beautiful cars made. The Petersen Museum often has them on show, drool marks all over the floor..mostly mine.
    I actually got Peter Mullin to bring one out to the Great Race Finish in Pasadena CA a few years ago, alongside a car show of hotrods and customs, fit right in. (Even got to sit in it, closest I'll come to owning one)
     
  14. Ned Ludd
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    Truck engines, literally! Torquey 3½-litre sixes, same as in contemporary Delahaye trucks but with three SU carbs.
     
  15. scotts52
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    You could tell me, then it could be my "barn find"
     
  16. motorhead711
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    JEEZUS those cars are sweet! Looks like something you'd see in a **** Tracy show.
     
  17. BAILEIGH INC
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    Yes......


    perfect description. I agree. Slick car though.
     
  18. Lunatic
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    I like these 2
     

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  19. 97
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    They are supposed to be like that one is a driving light one is a fog light.
     
  20. hotroddon
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    Exactly - Different lens fluting for different lighting requirements
     
  21. LUX BLUE
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    werent the delahays supposed to be scorchin *** fast for thier time as well?
     
  22. thebigdaddyo
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    Yup, truck motors. Different look at a race engine, grunt and go instead of horsepower. They usually placed well in GP racing, but I think they only won one.

    But I wouldn't care if it was powered by two squirrels in a cage, just as long as I got to drive something that *****in looking!
     
  23. rixrex
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    Oil Can Harrys car..the one that would move snake-like through the curves
     
  24. looks like a gold chainers paradice:D
     
  25. Winged Avenger II
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    a moving piece of art
     
  26. But wait here come's MIGHTY MOUSE:D.
    "HEEERRRE I come to save the day!" or Andy Kauffman
     
  27. eeluddy
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    Back in the mid 80's I went with a friend to look at a 63 Corvette in Kitchener Ontario and the owner had a 37 Delahaye roadster in his shop. It was gorgeous and had quite a story. If I remember correctly the original owner was a wealthy Frenchman with diplomatic ties who got out of France with the car just ahead of the Nazi's in 1940. It was in England and Switzerland finally making it's way to Canada.
     
  28. mart3406
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    Absolutely gorgeous car. Perfect lines. Certainly no
    customizing required. I suppose you could get shot for
    rodding one ......and probably justifiably so! :D

    mart
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  29. SirPercy
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    Quote:
    "Truck engines, literally! Torquey 3½-litre sixes, same as in contemporary Delahaye trucks but with three SU carbs."

    A few photos of the Delahaye 135 engine; not exactly high tech even for that era. Plus proof that not all Delahaye's had beautiful coachwork (German body by Hebmuller)....
    And my favourite Figoni & Falaschi silver and red coupe. <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
     

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  30. David Totten
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    Theres a great book called The Pride and the P***ion that shows all of these beautiful French designed cars which they called the drop of water design
     

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