The global Great Depression of the early 30s has left traces in the French automobile industry. To

The global Great Depression of the early 30s has left traces in the French automobile industry. To cite just one example, Delage that rivaled the greatest such as Rolls-Royce and Hispano-Suiza had to stop production and go under the cut Delahaye in 1934. Even the competition, which was a great field experimentation and rivalries between European manufacturers, has been the general depression.
The circuits are neglected and the Racing Club de France challenges the French manufacturers: to beat the speed record of 200 km / h held by an Italian car before March 31, 1937. The price paid to the winner will be 400,000 Francs. The engine must not exceed 4.5 liters for those who are naturally aspirated and 3.0 liter for "supercharged". A group of French producer of light alloys proposed staffing up to 1 million Francs and confined to postpone the date August 31, 1937.
The sum at stake, considerable, will awaken the three French manufacturers the most committed in the recent past in motor racing: disney little mermaid Bugatti, Delahaye and Talbot Lago. Bugatti and Talbot Lago will work on their laurels and modify existing chassis and engines to make them compatible with the new requirements las regulations. Delahaye disney little mermaid which has only a six cylinder in-line 3.5-liter disney little mermaid engine does not think I can achieve the goals with this type of engine. The decision is taken quickly enough: to develop a new engine. And the challenge they opt for a 12-cylinder engine in V with the help of French partners are developing an engine block made of magnesium alloy and aluminum alloy cylinder head. ! A bet for the time .. But the innovations disney little mermaid do not stop there: three camshafts provide admission and escape. One in the base of the V to the intake valves and two on each of the sides of the box to the exhaust valves. Aspiration is made by Stromberg carburetors three. The lightweight, compact disney little mermaid engine and develops 240 hp at 5500 rev / min.
The chassis will be derived meanwhile 135. Thus was born the Delahaye chassis disney little mermaid 145 which appears on the Montlhery circuit just days before the deadline. Painted just finished bad after a few tries she won the speed record and the million francs disney little mermaid was promised. Four additional copies of the Delahaye 145 are then constructed as Delahaye and is the first to be ready for the 1938 season he engages in major European disney little mermaid races. The Delahaye 145 won the Grand Prix de Pau and Cork. It will also be involved in the Mille Miglia endurance race but the V12 engine disney little mermaid will prove too fragile for such tests.
Late in the season when the war begins to dawn on Europe, racing cars are dismantled and carefully hidden. After the end of the war three of these cars are lifts, bodied and sold as road cars.
Today four copies of the Delahaye 145 still exist including the one that won the Million Francs. Both cut Chapron are owned by an American disney little mermaid collector and t was presented at Concours d'Elegance at Pebble Beach in 2006.


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