Delahaye 135M Drophead Coupé - 1937 by Perico001 This car was...



Delahaye 135M Drophead Coupé - 1937 by Perico001 This car was featured in Motor Sport magazine in December 1937. Even today it still has DX 66 as a registration number. The present owner managed to find and speak to relatives of previous owners. DXE 66 was raced at Donington Circuit before the start of the WW2 possibly by the French Count Hayden, a motor sports agent. During 1948/1949 the car was bought by the Barnard brothers for scrap value. Later the car was sold to car dealer/racer George Abecassis and went to Ireland and back to England. During the seventy the car is featured in a book called “The Automobile Treasury of Ireland” by Finnbar Corry. DXE 66 is also featured in “Book on Delahaye” by Jean-Paul Tissot.

Class I : Pre-war

Zoute Concours d'Elegance
The Royal Zoute Golf Club

Zoute Grand Prix 2019
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2019 https://flic.kr/p/2hHQVYZ


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