The 1949 Delehaye Type 175 Roadster

[Kingofalldems]

Didn't know this car existed.









Pretty sharp eh?

[Lars39]

1. Nice!

Reminds me I've still yet to go to the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville:
http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Had to look it up, but that's the one built for Diana Dors...

That's probably the nicest one, but Delehaye built a bunch of beautiful cars after the war.

Elton John owned another one, and they all go for big bucks at auction.

So, if you've got bags of money... own a stunning car or run for President?

[Auggie]

3. This one sold for $3,300,000 at a 2010 auction

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Three million bucks is for collectors, but...

I wonder what it would cost to replicate that body on a modern chassis?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. "replicate that body"?

You're still talking about the car, right? not Diana Dors?

[TreasonousBastard]

19. I'll take either, but I was talking about the car.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Imagine her driving down the street in that car.

[mrmpa]

15. Did you know that she was born........

Diana Mary Fluck?

[panader0]

34. Interesting lady. From Wiki---(she died in1984)

Alleged fortune[edit]

Dors apparently hid away what she claimed to be more than £2 million in banks across Europe. In 1982, she gave her son Mark Dawson a sheet of paper, on which she told him was a code that would reveal the whereabouts of the money.[3] Alan Lake supposedly had the key that would crack the code, but as he had committed suicide, Dawson was left with an apparently unsolvable code.[3][14]

Dawson sought out computer forensic specialists Inforenz, who recognised the encryption as the Vigenère cipher. Inforenz then used their own cryptanalysis software to suggest a ten-letter decryption key, DMARYFLUCK (short for Diana Mary Fluck, Dors' real name).[3] Although Inforenz was then able to decode the entire message and link it to a bank statement found in some of Lake's papers, the location of the money is still unknown.[3][14]

[Iggo]

5. Damn, that's one smooth lookin' ride.

[NV Whino]

7. Damn, look at that hood

It must house 16 cylinders.

[jmowreader]

26. You're going to say "there's no way..."

...but everything I can find about this car says it came out of the factory with a race-tuned inline 6.

[NV Whino]

27. Wow.

However, there is "no way" I could ever see over that hood.

I would like to just drive it a couple of (straight) blocks, however. It truly is a thing of beauty.

[shenmue]

8. Is that a boat?

Hee hee.

[Special Prosciuto]

10. Some of them were called 'boattails.'

[Kingofalldems]

11. Now that is sharp.

[Special Prosciuto]

12. It's the Auburn Speedster

[uriel1972]

16. MMMM want... can't drive, but WAAAAAAAANT... nt

[malthaussen]

18. Love Auburns.

Cords aren't bad, either.

-- Mal

[NV Whino]

28. My two all time favorite cars

They made 3/4 scale replicas for a while. I was tempted.

[Special Prosciuto]

9. I see a forward road visibility problem. But if I could afford the car, I wouldn't give a s...

[hay rick]

13. If you can see it you're already running over it.

That's a whole lot of hood.

[Brother Buzz]

20. Forward visibility isn't important if you know where you're going

[Special Prosciuto]

32. Gee Bee racers always looked like aerodynamic science fiction to me.

Yet they really still fly. With human volunteers.

[Brother Buzz]

33. Gee Bee's look like the cool cartoon airplanes kids like to draw

[mackerel]

14. Kinda reminds me of Cruella DeVille

[LeftinOH]

21. Forward visibility is seriously compromised, and that engine compartment

looks big enough to store another car in it. And it's only a two-seater? It's impressive.. but only in the sense that it's monstrous.

[kwassa]

22. 1939 Duesenberg Simone Midnight Ghost

[Kingofalldems]

23. Way ahead of it's time.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Other beautiful old French cars were the Delage (my fave), Talbot Lago, and the Bugatti

Delages:








Talbot Lago:




Bugatti:

[Kingofalldems]

25. Talbot Lago is a masterpiece.

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. I love the fender skirts

It makes them look so sleek.

[2naSalit]

30. Oooooh!!!

I would love to have a chance to drive each one of those just once! AS a retired driver, that would be one of my dreams come true!

Two of the finest cars I have ever had the pleasure to have had fifty blissful miles with were a V12 Jaguar and my ex's
1967 MarkII Jaguar... Sooo Sweet!

http://www.jaguarheritage.com/t/collection_014

I would love to have a few blissful miles with any or all of those!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. For several years in my youth I had the privilege to own a 1962 Jaguar Mark II 3.8

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in gun metal gray and wire wheels, like this one.




Another car I've always admired for its simple, elegant lines is the late 50s, early 60s BMW 502 (aka the "Baroque Angel&quot .

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And for sheer elegance and simplicity, I've lusted over the old Ford Comete (European market Ford).