There ’s something timeless and thrilling about a bit of pre - war usance coachwork , especially when it courses with a pulsing of sporting blood . That ’s the meter that lie at the nitty-gritty of the 1936 Delahaye 135 Competition Coupe from the famed Blackhawk Collection in Danville , California .
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Delahaye had been making cars in France since 1894 ; with a few exclusion , they were fairly conventional . But in 1935 , the company launched a pair of six - piston chamber cars that were a actual tonic .
The expectant of the two was the 120 - H.P. 3.5 - litre that go into the raw Type 135 , producing a car that seduce wins in the Monte Carlo Rallye and at LeMans in the previous 1930s .
The short Competition feature here pit by a Parisian industrialist who was fond of the flow manner of coach - builders Figoni et Falaschi .
Two passengers can ride in style as triple carburetors feed the ohv six , which is push back through a four - speed synchromesh gear case .
After World War II , the railcar begin pass through the hands of various American owners . In the 1980s , a Japanese vendee had the car restored . It was shown at Pebble Beach , then take aim to Japan .
The Blackhawk Collection purchase it about three years ago . The restoration still hold up , little oeuvre was call for to put it on show .
