There's not much more to say, except that I love this car. Well...maybe a few things. I first saw a picture of it as a teenager and was blown away. A small V-12! And it looked so
modern. But I never learned much about it. In pre-internet days, you couldn't just look it up, and even the magazines with a historical bent didn't do spreads on it because the Delage was not successful. In racing, reliable and fast trumps complex, innovative, and beautiful. And there's this:
1) Everybody else was trying to figure out how to do a better straight-8.
2) The car was conceived around a low center of gravity.
3) Delage's reach may have exceeded their grasp, but they had the right idea.
4) And, of course, that 12-cylinder
sound...
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/pebble-beach-2012-1924-delage-2lcv/1420183/
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