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SAC#1799 : Delahaye 148L by Van Den Plas
« on: August 21, 2024, 02:53:59 AM »
What is this car , and by whom ; for 1 point !  :)
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Re: SAC#1799
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2024, 11:55:21 AM »
Experts !
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Re: SAC#1799
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2024, 02:52:29 PM »
The body lines say Delahaye 135. The chrome embellishments lean towards Phony & Flashy (Sorry, Figoni et Falaschi  :D) or possibly Saoutchik. Anywhere close?
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Re: SAC#1799
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2024, 08:32:45 AM »
Yes ! Delahaye 135 , but not by Figoni or Saoutchik !
Locked for you !  :)
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2024, 10:00:56 AM »
 Letourner & Marchand, perhaps? Although, I suppose before I run through my current list of 20 French coachbuilders, it would be prudent to ask - IS it by a French coachbuilder, or some other nationality?
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2024, 02:56:13 AM »
Not a French coachbuilder ! :)
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2024, 11:39:50 AM »
OK, thanks for that. Maybe we can narrow it down by country . . . Belgian?

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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2024, 02:50:58 AM »
Yes ! a Belgian coachbuilder !
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2024, 08:42:48 AM »
OK, I'll start with the better-known ones and then to the more obscure. I have seven Belgian coachbuilders listed, and to be fair I'll present them one at a time.  First up . . . d'Iteren Freres?
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2024, 02:51:05 AM »
Not D'ieteren !
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Re: SAC#1799 :
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2024, 03:49:32 AM »
Van den Plas?
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Re: SAC#1799 :
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2024, 08:11:37 AM »
Vesters & Neirinck, 1948?
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Re: SAC#1799 :
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2024, 10:43:25 AM »
Van den Plas and Vesters & Neirinck were two more Belgian coachbuilders on my list . . . if it is from neither of them, how about Jacques Coune?
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Re: SAC#1799 :
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2024, 03:00:46 AM »
Yes , Delahaye by Van den plas !
Locked for Lavrakas !  :)
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2024, 05:43:09 AM »
Early postwar. Shall we say 1947?
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2024, 02:11:38 PM »
Sorry for my mistake , it's not a 135 !
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2024, 04:03:31 PM »
An easy mistake to make . . . I did. Delage re-introduced the D6 after the war, this looks to be from that immediate postwar period so it may be one of those. I'm glad Lavrakas was able to identify the coachbuilder as Van den Plas, although the chrome fender embellishments are somewhat atypical for them. Guess it was the fad at the time.
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2024, 04:30:40 PM »
How about a 175 c1948? If not, better unlock it as I'm just guessing.
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Re: SAC#1799 : Locked
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2024, 02:20:12 AM »
Not a 175 !
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Re: SAC#1799 :
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2024, 09:40:56 AM »
Delage D6 with coachwork by Van denPlas. One of the postwar 1947-1953 cars.
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Re: SAC#1799 :
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2024, 10:28:21 AM »
Or ever a pre-war Delahaye rebodied late 40s?
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« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2024, 05:13:47 AM »
What type of Delahaye Van Den Plas ?
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Re: SAC#1799 :
« Reply #22 on: September 13, 2024, 09:54:58 AM »
I think there are three different models it could be. I'll start with the 175/178.
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« Reply #23 on: September 13, 2024, 10:28:50 AM »
So . . . not a 135 or a 175. Of the remaining possibilities, this looks too big for a 138, and the 148 and 168 had a longer wheelbase. I'm guessing this to be one of the very rare 4.5 litre V-12 type 145/165s of possibly 1939 vintage, rebodied around 1948 by Van den Plas.
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Re: SAC#1799 :
« Reply #24 on: September 13, 2024, 03:37:19 PM »
I'll go the other way and say that it's a 180.
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