Delage Type D.6.70

Delage
Delage Type D.6.70 as a convertible from 1937
Type D.6.70
Production period:	1935-1938
Class :	upper middle class
Body versions :	Sedan , Pullman sedan , coupé , convertible , convertible sedan , roadster , touring car
Engines:	Otto engine : 2.7 liters (70-78 hp)
Length:
Width:	1720 mm
Height:
Wheelbase :	3150-3300 mm
Empty weight :	1440-1580 kg
Previous model	Delage Type D.6.80
successor	Delage Type D.6.75

Delage Type D.6.70 as a limousine by Coachcraft (1937)

Delage Type D.6.70 as a coupé by Letourneur et Marchand

Delage Type D.6.70 as a Coupé by Figoni & Falaschi

Delage Type D.6.70 as a racing car (replica)

The Delage Type D.6.70 was a car model of the French brand Delage . There are also the notations Delage Type D6.70 and Delage Type D6-70 . The 70 was the engine power in hp for the normal version. For similarly named models see Delage Type D.6 .

description

The national registration authority tested the vehicle with the number 50.028 and granted its approval on November 12, 1935. The upgraded version was registered on January 23, 1936 after the vehicle with the number 50,546 had been tested. Delage offered the model from 1935 to 1938. The predecessor was the Delage Type D.6.80 . The successor was the Delage Type D.6.75 .

A six-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. It had an 80 mm bore and 90.5 mm stroke . That resulted in a displacement of 2729 cm³ and 16  Cheval fiscal . The engine developed 70 hp in the normal version and 78 hp in the more powerful version.

The chassis had a track width of 1460 mm and a wheelbase of either 3150 mm or 3300 mm . The dimensions corresponded to the weaker Delage Type D.6.60 . The vehicles were 1720 mm wide. They weighed between 1440 kg and 1580 kg.

The vehicles had hydraulic brakes. The originally planned version with cable-operated brakes was not approved by the approval authorities on October 7, 1935.

Bodies have survived as two- and four-door sedans , Pullman sedans , coupes , convertibles , convertibles , roadsters , touring cars and coupes de ville . According to a source, there was a roadster with a body from the Citroën Traction Avant . The D.6.70 sold in Great Britain often had bodies from the British manufacturer Coachcraft , which were stylistically based on designs by Chapron .

Races

Louis Gérard at the Tourist Trophy

In the spring of 1936 it was decided to build a vehicle for the 1936 Le Mans 24-hour race . It was a coupe. The engine was enlarged to 3 liters. However, the race was canceled.

Louis Gérard bought the racing car . He used it together with his cousin Jacques de Valence in the 1937 Le Mans 24-hour race . They reached fourth place in the overall standings and won the class up to 3 liters.

Also in 1937 two vehicles were used in the Monte Carlo Rally .

Gérard's closed racing car was converted into an open two-seater, with the front fenders also steering. This made the vehicle lighter. Gérard and Georges Monneret started with the RAC Tourist Trophy 1938 and won.

date	event	place	vehicle	team	Result
1937	Rally Monte Carlo	Stavanger - Monaco Umeå - Monaco	Type D.6.70	Mr. and Mrs. Richer-Delavau Imbert / Jean Franqueville	? 18th place
05-07 May 1937	Rally Morocco	Morocco	Type D.6.70 Special	Mrs. Richer-Delavau / Mrs. Lamberjack	1st place in the women's ranking
June 19-20, 1937	Le Mans 24 hour race 1937	Le Mans	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard / Jacques de Valence	4th place and class winner
July 31 - August 6, 1937	Paris-Nice criteria	Paris - Nice	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	1st place in the class up to 3 liters displacement
08/05/1937	La Turbie hill climb	La Turbie	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	2nd place in the class up to 3 liters displacement
08/06/1937	Coupe du Prince Rainier	Monaco	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	1st place in the sport class up to 3 liters
09/19/1937	Coupe d'Automne	Montlhéry	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	2nd place in the class up to 3 liters displacement
04/09/1938	British Empire Trophy	Donington Park	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	4th place
04/23/1938	Cork Grand Prix	Cork	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	place 3
05/07/1938	Junior Car Club International Race	Brooklands	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	5th place
05/22/1938	Grand Prix d'Anvers	Antwerp	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	place 2
June 18-19, 1938	Le Mans 24 hour race in 1938	Le Mans	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard / Jacques de Valence	Goal not achieved
July 9-10, 1938	Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race	Spa Francorchamps	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard / Georges Monneret	place 2
09/03/1938	RAC Tourist Trophy	Donington Park	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	1st place
09/24/1938	Dunlop Jubilee	Brooklands	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard	8th place
09/25/1938	Lapize hill climb	Montlhéry	Type D.6.70 Special	Louis Gérard Bourinet	1st place in the sport class 2nd place in the racing class up to 3 liters
07/28/1946	Circuit de Nantes	Nantes	Type D.6.70 Special	Pat Garland	Goal not achieved
08/25/1946	Circuit des Trois Villes du Nord	Lille	Type D.6.70 Special	Pat Garland	8th place
10/06/1946	Grand Prix du Salon	Bois de Boulogne	Type D.6.70 Special	Pat Garland	Goal not achieved
May 16, 1948	Grand Prix des Frontières	Chimay	Type D.6.70 Special	Pat Garland	4th place
05/30/1948	Grand Prix de Paris	Montlhéry	Type D.6.70 Special	Pat Garland	Rank 6
08/01/1948	Grand Prix du Comminges	St. Gaudens	Type D.6.70 Special	Pat Garland	Goal not achieved
09/12/1948	Paris 12 hour race	Montlhéry	Type D.6.70 Special	Pat Garland / Gordon	13th place
10/10/1948	Coupe Robert Mazaud	Montlhéry	Type D.6.70 Special	Pat Garland	place 3

Source, unless otherwise stated:

Numbers of units and surviving vehicles

Peter Jacobs from the Delage Register of Great Britain compiled an overview of production figures and the number of vehicles that still exist in October 2006. His information on the construction times differ in some cases from the information given by the book authors. Numbers of the models after the takeover by Automobiles Delahaye are unknown. For this model he confirms the construction period from 1935 to 1938. 84 vehicles still exist.

Auctions

A so-called Milord Cabriolet by Figoni & Falaschi from 1936 was auctioned in January 2014 for 544,500 US dollars .

In February 2014 achieved a 1937 Coach of Letourneur et Marchand 75,096 euros .

An ordinary Autobineau limousine fetched 19,550 euros at an auction at Dorotheum in June 2018 .

In March 2019, Bonhams was unable to auction a Figoni & Falaschi convertible with an estimate of 450,000 to 540,000 euros.

A Coupé de Ville from 1938, which had been in the Aalholm Museum for a long time , was not auctioned in April 2019 at an estimate of 32,000 to 40,000 euros, but in September 2019 for 29,042 euros.

A 1937 Letourneur et Marchand convertible fetched an auction price of $ 368,000 in August 2019.

literature

• Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 (English).

Web links

Commons : Delage Type D.6.70  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Lachet: Technical data on the Autocyber page (French, accessed on February 22, 2020)
2. ^ René Bellu: Automobilia. N ° 3. Toutes les voitures Françaises 1937. Salon 1936. Histoire & Collections, Paris 1997, pp. 28-35 (French).
3. ↑ Nick Walker: A – Z of British Coachbuilders 1919–1960 , Shebbear 2007 (Herridge & Sons Ltd.) ISBN 978-0-9549981-6-5 , p. 97.
4. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 1. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 298 (English).
5. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 1. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 309-310 (English).
6. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 1. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 316 (English).
7. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 1. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 318-319 (English).
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Alessandro Silva: Back on Track - Racing in the 1940s , Fondazione Negri, Brescia 2019, ISBN 88-89108-40-6 (English).
9. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 2. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 14-24 (English).
10. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 2. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 13 (English).
11. ↑ Auction January 2014 (accessed March 1, 2020)
12. ↑ Auction February 2014 (English and French, accessed March 1, 2020)
13. ↑ June 2018 auction (accessed March 1, 2020)
14. ↑ Auction March 2019 (English, accessed March 1, 2020)
15. ↑ Auction April 2019 (English, accessed March 1, 2020)
16. ↑ Auction September 2019 (English, accessed March 1, 2020)
17. ↑ August 2019 auction (accessed March 1, 2020)