db34 Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 This was in a large box of old car photo's I recently bought. Does any one have any information on this car? Thanks Daryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 (edited) Body by Figoni et Falaschi. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess the photo was taken in Holland. The car looks like the 1937 model that Jacque & Betty Harguindeguy bought, restored, then won Best of Show at Pebble Beach. It sure looks better in the single dark color, in my opinion.http://www.pebblebeachconcours.net/tools/local/imageupload/content/MainImage/size2/1c75a1907418b79931168f575f6d33ea.jpg Edited November 30, 2010 by West Peterson (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Malcom Pray in Connecticut has an identical car. There are only two known to exist. Malcom's is #7 and Jacques's is #6. The #1 car was purchased by Prince Ali Khan in 1936 at the Paris Auto Show for $27,000! He had the car re painted black before delivery. That car no longer exists, but there are a lot of photos remaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 That car no longer exists, but there are a lot of photos remaining.That begs the question.....what happened to it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 I think the last paper trail leads to Millers Tavern, Virginia... a godforsaken place that time has forgotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Silverghost Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 (edited) West sure knows all these Classic Autos~He and the CCCA boys have tracked them all for decades ! The wonderful flowing body on that Delahaye is one of the finest examples ever of the French designer's & coachbuilder's art . Some of these car designs had real steering issues with tight turning because of the enclosed front pontoon fenders~~Changing a flat must have been a real trick too?But who really cared ?~~The designs were fantastic ! Don Williams had a similar auto at his Blackhawk Collection museum some years ago. Elton John, of all people, owned a very similar Delahaye but sold it some years back~He owned several similar way-out European designs~ All of them were stunning autos~ I bet most of you never thought of Elton as a Classic car guy ! ? Peter Mullin has many similar designs in his super French auto museum collection; now housed at the old Otis Chandler museum building in Oxnard Calif ;and at Peter's home !He also collects Bugatti autos, among others, and bought the now Famous Under Lake Bugatti that was discovered , and fished-out of that Swiss lake a few years ago !Peter is a Great fellow also ! Check-out the Peter Mullin Museum Foundation website ! www.mullinautomotivemuseum.com Edited December 1, 2010 by Silverghost (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Similar to this beauty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Beauty?? That is an understatement, John. Makes an old mans heart flutter as much as a pretty girl does. Well, almost. Well ,almost as much as as it once did. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Similar to this beauty...I can't tell if you are kidding or not??Which one has the V12 in it? I thought it was the NY show car which also is the one that won at Pebble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 (edited) West sure knows all these Classic Autos~He and the CCCA boys have tracked them all for decades !My grandfather was in Portugal in 1965 with one of my older brothers. They visited a car dealership there, and while snooping around behind closed curtains my brother spotted a 1939 Delahaye 135MS (MS, for those who don't know, is the triple-carbureted high-performance model with the same engine they used for racing). Long story short, my grandfather bought the car on the spot. I think he paid $1,200 for it. Shipping probably tacked on another $700 or so. My father bought it from my grandfather, and it looked nice parked next to his 1934 Bugatti T-57 Stelvio cabriolet (bought in Paris in 1956 for $300). Both those cars were sold around 1974, replaced with the 1930 Packard boattail speedster that he still owns today (Brad, you may remember the Packard, as it was owned by George Jepson). Edited December 1, 2010 by West Peterson (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JR Cars Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Ansancle, the V12 car (Type 165) is the all-red Mullin car. It did not win Best of Show at Pebble, but did win its class (we took second) that year. The red/white Harguindeguy 135MS car did win Best of Show a few years earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I can't tell if you are kidding or not??I thought he was kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Ansancle, the V12 car (Type 165) is the all-red Mullin car. It did not win Best of Show at Pebble, but did win its class (we took second) that year. The red/white Harguindeguy 135MS car did win Best of Show a few years earlier.I recall the car was shipped to the NY show without the engine and then the two were reunited many years later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 AlAre you thinking of the blue one that Fran Roxas recently restored? It was a 1949 model 175. I recently read that it was just reunited with its original engine, though not installed before being auctioned at the RM sale in Monterey. The 175 model is a six-cylinder car, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JR Cars Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 The V12 car was shipped over here when new without an engine, and then just sat here because Delahaye didn't feel the need to bring it home. Roger Barlow wrote about it in one of his Escape Roads columns many years ago... http://www.jsasoc.com/Family_archive/Archive/barlow/escape%20road%20delahaye.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 The V12 car was shipped over here when new without an engine, and then just sat here because Delahaye didn't feel the need to bring it home. Roger Barlow wrote about it in one of his Escape Roads columns many years ago... http://www.jsasoc.com/Family_archive/Archive/barlow/escape%20road%20delahaye.pdfgreat article! thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JR Cars Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Here are the rest of Barlow's columns. Great reading! Roger Barlow Escape Roads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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