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Title: What it is 243...SOLVED>>>Delage 3-litre Type X
Post by: GRAYWOLF on October 06, 2008, 08:15:51 AM

(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u284/GRAYWOLF69/243.jpg)

Title: Re: What it is 243
Post by: GRAYWOLF on October 13, 2008, 07:57:16 PM

:bump:

Title: Re: What it is 243
Post by: Allan L on October 14, 2008, 02:30:17 AM

That's a 1913 Grand Prix Delage

Title: Re: What it is 243
Post by: GRAYWOLF on October 14, 2008, 09:37:06 PM

close.

Title: Re: What it is 243
Post by: Allan L on October 15, 2008, 02:43:54 AM

Yes, actually it's from 1911 when there was no Grand Prix, but it raced in the Coupe de l'Auto which was held instead.

Title: Re: What it is 243
Post by: GRAYWOLF on October 15, 2008, 10:07:25 PM

I don't know the year (I didn't take that down)...It has a model name that isn't really related to a race.

Title: Re: What it is 243
Post by: Allan L on October 16, 2008, 03:18:48 AM

Quote from: GRAYWOLF on October 15, 2008, 10:07:25 PM
I don't know the year (I didn't take that down)...It has a model name that isn't really related to a race.

Sometimes referred to as the Model X, but I think that's a post hoc name.
It is a well-known car here, owned for many years by Sir John Briscoe (who called it "Denise")and may still be in that family.
There was a long piece on the history, finding and restoring the car by John (Lord) Charnwood in the VSCC Bulletin in Autumn 1952
These cars finished 1, 3 and 4 in the Coupe de l'Auto and this was the winner (driven by Bablot)

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