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Narwal Figoni

More on the R&T Figoni Cover Car

October 23, 2023 By pete

The Delahaye was on cover of the February 1949 edition of Road & Track. The photograph was taken in front of the famous Ciros Nightclub. This is the same car which was photographed later that year by Strother MacMinn.

Strother MacMinn photos from the collection of Robert Ames
Courtesy VintageMotorphoto
Text by Jim Sitz

From the VeloceToday archives
Read Behold the Narwal

Strother MacMinn was one of my closest and dearest friends. I met him in 1951. He was a real gay blade and man about town, the Cary Grant of automotive circles.

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Behold, the Narwal

October 16, 2023 By pete

Delahaye Figoni 800516 at the Blackhawk Museum, August 2018. Hugues Vanhoolandt photo.

By Pete Vack with special thanks to Hugues Vanhoolandt and Richard Adatto

Richard Adatto (with Diana Meredith), in their new book Figoni On Delahaye (read review) allowed us to reflect upon one of the strangest of the already strange French confections of Figoni. Early readers of Road and Track came face to face with a Narwal via the February 1949 cover, and probably never forgot it, even if they couldn’t describe it.

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