{"id":29767,"date":"2018-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/delage-d8-120-cabriolet-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T15:13:24","slug":"delage-d8-120-cabriolet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/delage-d8-120-cabriolet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Delage D8-120 Cabriolet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In January 1905 Louis Del\u00e2ge and Augustin Legros founded the company Automobiles Delage. Within the first three years they were only coachbuilders for bought engines and chassis. From 1908 onwards they also built engines and own chassis. Successes in motor racing, for example 1914 at the Indy 500 in USA, lead to more customers for the French sports cars. After World War 1 they started the production of luxury cars again and developed their own style for the ‘Golden 20s’. Next to those works cars they delivered chassis to coachbuilders for own bodyworks by order of the customers.

Due to financial troubles they had to sell the company to competitor Delahaye in 1935, who sold cars under the Delage badge until 1953. One of them was the D8 with a four litres inline 8-cylinder engine, that debuted back in 1933. In its last outing as the D8-120 this motor got 120 PS. Only 66 cars were produced between 1937 and 1939 when World War 2 stopped production all together. After the war Delage only built six-cylinder cars.<\/p>\n\n\n

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