1948 Delahaye 175 S Grand Luxe

Those Sexy Coupes of a Certain Age

December 8, 2020 By pete

This Talbot Lago Grand Sport of 1948 is also a Le Mans veteran with no less than five participations from 1949 to 1953. Chantilly 2015

Photos and captions by Hugues Vanhoolandt
Text by the Editor

Hugues Vanhoolandt has traveled the globe, accumulating a great wealth of digital images from a wide variety of shows and events. This week, to accompany Paul Wilson’s Alfa Romeo coupe debut in the pages of VeloceToday, we searched the Vanhoolandt archives to feature those sexy Italian and French creations of a certain age – that age being between 1935 and 1953, give or take a year on either side.

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An Event Not Covered

May 19, 2020 By pete

His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, Grand Cross of the Victorian Order, Patron of the Concours inspects the 1948 Delahaye 175 S Grand Luxe ‘Le Dandy.’

Photos by Jonathan Sharp
Caption information from Event Catalogue

We must explain the reason for all of the recent yet old Hampton Court coverage. Hampton Court Concours took place September 6-8, 2019 and must have been one whopper of an event. Jonathan Sharp was on hand to cover it, the weather was perfect, the cars stunning and the background at Hampton Court easily tops Pebble Beach. Yet at the time, we only ran a select few photos of the special featured Ferraris.

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