Delage Type D.8.85

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Type D.8.85
Production period: 1934-1935
Class : upper middle class
Body versions : Limousine , Pullman limousine , convertible , roadster
Engines: Otto engine :
3.6 liters
(85 hp)
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase : 3340-3540 mm
Empty weight : 1700-1840 kg
Previous model Delage Type D.6
successor Delage Type D.6.80 B

The Delage Type D.8.85 was a car model of the French brand Delage . There are also the notations Delage Type D-8 85 and Delage Type D8 85 . The 85 stood for the engine output of 85  hp . For similarly named models see Delage Type D.8 .

description

On September 5, 1934, the national registration authority approved the vehicle shown with the number 39.815. Delage offered the model from 1934 to 1935. The predecessor was the Delage Type D.6 . Successor was Delage Type B D.6.80 . The designer was Léon Michelat.

An eight-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. It had a 79.25 mm bore and 90.5 mm stroke . That resulted in a displacement of 3571 cm³ and a classification of 20  Cheval fiscal .

The chassis had a track width of 1440 mm at the front and 1500 mm at the rear . The wheelbase was either 3340 mm for the normal version or 3540 mm for the long version. The curb weight was between 1700 kg and 1840 kg.

Four-door sedans , Pullman sedans , convertibles , roadsters and Brougham are known bodies .

The Delage Type D.8.105 had an engine with the same dimensions but more power. In addition, the chassis had different dimensions.

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. For this model he confirms the construction period from 1934 to 1935. Of around 141 vehicles produced, 7 still exist.

Auctions

On June 19, 2016, Osenat auctioned a Pullman limousine from 1935 for 55,200 euros .

Sotheby’s fetched $ 224,000 in August 2018 for a 1934 model that was originally delivered to Australia as a sedan and later had an open two-seater body and was improved in terms of the engine and transmission .

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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).
  2. ↑ Auction 2016 (English and French, accessed March 1, 2020)
  3. ↑ August 2018 auction (accessed March 1, 2020)