"1937 DELAGE COUP'E ... Before & After ....

Here is a pic of my friends ...1937 Delage D8-120 S Pourtout Aréo Coupé2005 Best of Show at PEBBLE BEACH 2005

BEFORE ....and....AFTER !

 

Didn't you show the wood body carcass for that car a while back?
It's Tits!

 

Sorry ..Not me on the WOOD

 

You have to give the french some credit, they sure made some beatiful cars in the 30s.

 

Its uncanny how well the front wheel well opening perfectly matches the radius of the whitewall. Almost looks photoshopped.

 

I love cars that are inspired by planes and flight. That car is beautiful.

 

stunning..
if i can get my dad to email me some pics (unlikely, hes a computard)
Ill show you the precursor to that car, the 1936 Delage D6-70 lemans coupe, a one off custom in the french streamliner tradition.
My dad has just finished a seven year recreation of this car based on an original D6 chassis and engine, and photographs of the car taken before it disapeared in the fifties. its fucking incredible. Hand built alloy over ash frame body,the most beautiful shapes in it.
ill email him now.
nice that you guys appreciate this stuff.

 

Not all Rod & Customs were built in the US or by Us

Areo shapes are so pleasing your eye just roll off them

 

the curved windshield in 1937 and body shapes blow my mind.

 

I posted some pics of a Bugatti Atlantic some time ago...

Are these the ones you saw?

 

thats the one i was thinking about when i read that. the Bugatti Atlantic is cool but does not compare to the looks of the delage

 

Are these the only pics you got of it.

 

Absolutely gorgeous..
i wish i had the money to play with these toys.
Yes the french had the styles nailed in the 30's and 40's.

 

Fukin hell is that thing slippery or what?! WOW!

 

wow. That is art..

Spike

 

Yep. Those are the ones.
I saved the pics on a zip disc somewhere....somewhere...

 

I'm diggin on that belt line spear that IS the trunk hinge!

 

wow . . . WOW. thanks for posting this. really beautiful.

 

I have mixed emotions about these beautiful cars. On the one hand I'm grateful so many of them ended up in the US as proud owners tried to protect them from the Nazi's and ravages of war. On the other hand, I feel sorry for the families that were never able to reclaim them. The good news is, the way Americans have saved, preserved and restored these important cars has resulted in at least one thing France is grateful to the US for.

 

Hey..., I got taillights for that thing in the classifieds...!!!

One pair of 1937 DeLage Taillights..., Be the only one one your block (or planet) to have a pair of Super Art deco taillights on your "Custom" or "Hotrod"...!!!


Although mine are off a DeLage Roadster model...!!!

 

That car is absolutely beautiful. The lines are great. Can anyone descibe what the suspension and engine are? Was it a fast car or just a luxury car?

 

Anyone have pictures of the Roadster version? Incredible creation, too bad they aren't still making them as fetching.
xxx

 

What would be the word for MORE that Breathtaking!

Style and grace, with lines that flow like water.

Unreal.

 

that thing is so sleek if you hit a pedestrian I dont think they would get hurt.

who am I kidding I am just wanting a reason to mow down a few leg jockeys

 

Brandy, these cars weren't made on an assembly line. If you wanted one, you would buy the chassis, and driveline from Delage, and then choose a coachbuilder, who designed, and built the body to YOUR specifications! I believe this one, though was built in the Delage cosch studio...for the boss, Louis Delage. Back in the 30's it would cost $15,000 to 30,000 to acquire on of these!
There were many french coach builders, and designers who were fantastic. Figoni and Falaschi, Marchand, Letourneue, Villeurs, Pourchant, Freney...

 

What are you rambling on about?

Some of the streamlined cars were imported into the states before WW II when they were new or almost new cars by the likes of Tommy Lee who had 3 Talbot Lago's, but the majority were and still are in Europe its only in the last few years that all the US guys have been buying them up and over restoring them.

 

I'll only do this for you, Brandy!
Here's a Figoni and Falaschi built Delage D6-70.

 

OK, just one more.
Here's a D8-120 that was coachbuilt by Chapron. Much more conservative styling.