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Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Jack...
November 2006 Delahaye—Styling and Design By Richard S. Adatto and Diana E. Meredith The noted French manufacturer Delahaye began manufacturing automobiles as early as 1896 and, despite two wars, continued through 1954, when the company was eventually closed. Across this almost 60-year time period, Delahaye produced a variety of vehicles...
The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
Delahaye 145 Grand Prix Car: Delahaye 145 GP / Engine: 60º V12 / Maker: Delahaye / Bore X Stroke: 75.0 mm x 84.7 mm / Year: 1937 / Capacity: 2,993 cc / Class: Grand Prix / Power: 245 bhp / 183 KW @ 5,500 rpm / Wheelbase: 2,700 mm / Track:...
Holiday Gift Guide 2009 Oyster Perpetual Datejust II $7,525 41mm, stainless steel case, 18kt white gold fluted bezel, 31 jewel...
For as long as he can remember, Mel Jacobs of Houston, Texas has been love-struck by the coach-built Deco cars...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he speaks of his early life with fondness, growing up in Nice. He later joined the Moto Club de Nice, which was sort of a junior league Automobile Club de Nice....
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
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Delahaye, for those who recognize the name, conjures up a mixed vision of large and long French Grand Prix, sports and touring cars of the late 1930s and a variety of extraordinary coach-built luxury machines constructed in the post-war decade of the late 1940s through the middle of the 1950s....
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
• Coys rounded off a successful year with their final auction of 2012, “True Greats”, on December 4th, at Westminster,...
So what do you do if you’re a leading pulmonologist, at a National Cancer Research hospital, and you can’t find a decent head gasket for your vintage racecar? Well, you make your own. As surprising as that may sound, that was exactly the situation that Dr. Mordy Dunst found himself...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
The 1929 Lincoln Aero Phaeton, by LeBaron, was one of the earliest American vehicles to employ a tailfin. Priced at...
This Chapron Delahaye 235 was an attractive exhibitor at the 1953 Paris Salon, the renowned French automobile exhibition that opened on October 1. This luxury two-seater coupé of hard-top style is finished in cream and blue, with wire-spoked wheels revealing its large diameter brake drums. Become a Member & Get...
Photo: Mike Jiggle If I was able to use only two words to describe my experience of driving the elegant...
Gobbato’s Fate Dear Editor, In the article about Vittorio Jano, in your June issue, Robert Newman stated that the 1945...
After a great fight between Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes W154 and the Delahaye 145 V12 of René Dreyfus in the early going of the 1938 Pau Grand Prix, Caracciola began experiencing pain from an old leg injury suffered at Monaco five years before, and made a pit stop on...
Cavallino Classic at Mar-a-Lago Beach, Florida January 22-24, 2015 (Click to enlarge images) Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The sixth annual Santa Fe Concorso, a gathering of more than 120 rare and exotic cars, motorcycles, and bicycles, will...
The 2015 edition of Salon Privé, held for the first time at Britain’s Blenheim Palace, will be remembered as the most successful of the event’s 10-year history, as more than 11,000 visitors were drawn to the stately grounds of the World Heritage Site. Enjoying the three-day extravaganza on the lawn...
The 2015 Santa Fe Concorso gathered more than 100 rare and exotic cars on the grounds of The Club at...
The 12th Annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance took place on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Southern California...
The 26th Tour Auto Optic 2000 will take place from April 24-30, 2017, along a new route devised by Peter Auto for the 230 entrants. After the traditional exhibition under the glass dome of the Grand Palais in Paris, the cars will set off for Brittany for the first time...
1948 Delahaye 135M Cabriolet It is difficult to decide whether the Italians or the French designed the most beautiful cars...
The 2017 San Marino Motor Classic displayed more than 350 rare cars and welcomed 10,000 attendees to Lacy Park in...
A 1933 Delage D8S Coupe Roadster by DeVillars was named Best of Show at last weekend’s 14th annual Keeneland Concours d’Elegance at the historic Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. The show field featured two classes of this year’s featured marques, Rolls-Royce and Bentley, and classes of horse-drawn carriages and cars of...