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Basil

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Honey I have to run up to Walmart.

1949 Delahaye 175.jpg
 
Yikes! (to both)
 
Nice headlights
 
How long is that?? Walmart has nice parking, even for trailers and RVs; that car would need that!

Beautiful car! What is it?
 
Thanks!!

If $600 gets the 1/18 version, does $11k get the full-size one??
 
True story. Working at Allied Foreign cars in Boston in 1957, customer brought in a Delahaye to have its oil changed. Bobby, the apprentice mechanic, volunteered for the oil change. He then took the car out for a test run and came back white as a sheet. No oil pressure. He had forgotten to put in the new oil. Apparently no damage done.
 
Looks to be the aforementioned Delahaye 175S with body by Fagoni and Falashi (the car NOT the woman!). F&F were French coachbuilders of the 20s and 30s. Their motto: "We have French curves, skilled panel beaters, a corner on the chrome market and we're not afraid to use them." Refered to by some as Phoney & Flashy.
Think what the turning radius must have been with those spats! See also: Boulevardier. A car to see and be seen in, but not necessarily to drive any distance.
A different era for sure. Buy a chassis, have a custom coachbuilder put a body on it, pay $$$$$, and awaaaay you go. Brewster, Fisher and others did this in the U.S.
Enjoy,
Joel
 
18kperhr said:
Looks to be the aforementioned Delahaye 175S with body by Fagoni and Falashi (the car NOT the woman!). F&F were French coachbuilders of the 20s and 30s. Their motto: "We have French curves, skilled panel beaters, a corner on the chrome market and we're not afraid to use them." Refered to by some as Phoney & Flashy.
Think what the turning radius must have been with those spats! See also: Boulevardier. A car to see and be seen in, but not necessarily to drive any distance.
A different era for sure. Buy a chassis, have a custom coachbuilder put a body on it, pay $$$$$, and awaaaay you go. Brewster, Fisher and others did this in the U.S.
Enjoy,
Joel
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Turning radius? You mean it could turn?
 
The one that came into the shop was a plain convertible, not one of the flashy (Falaschi) ones. As I recall from 60 years later, it had a very plain lumpy engine - maybe a straight six or 8? I'll look it up.
 
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