"Million Franc" Delahaye

[@JohnnyTHolland]

Good film and an obvious enthusiast. I am here too after reading Neil Bascomb's book 'Faster'. Tribute to both Rene Drefus and Lucy Schell who made this car famous !

[@disvillage]

Thank you sir for sharing your passion and excitement with us. How completely beautiful these cars are. I can compare the designs in to other French arts as music. I am a retired symphony horn player of 36+ years from many parts of the world. It helps to understand the culture of the region and design of the arts.

[@devinfahada4880]

what a story! This is the best car story i ever know

[@josephgreenberg2063]

Great respect to Mr Mullin and to Neal Bascomb (whose book “Faster” chronicles Mssr. Dreyfus, his American female team principal (Lucy Schell) and the brilliant Delahaye team of Jean Francois and Charles Weiffenbach) for preserving this historic, heroic response to the Third Reich backed Mercedes Silver Arrows and Auto Union P-Wagens.

[@IndoZambian]

I just finished that book and found this!

[@bennyhannover9361]

The regulations described started from 1938 on. In 1937 was last year of the 750 kilo rules, total weight limited to 1500 lbs weight, the racetrack was reigned by W125 from Mercedes (5600 cc inline 8, 620 hp, 200 miles topspeed, 160 octane special petrol from Leuna Petro Chemical). In 1938 started a chance for 4.5 litre Engines naturally aspirated, they have not been faster than the 3 Liter supercharged (W163 485hp !!) but their petrol consumption was at least 50 to 75 % lower than the Silver Arrows (Silver Arrrows: 100 to 120 litres per 63 miles at 150 to 160 miles/hour speed / french Delahayes 45 to 65 litres per 63 miles (100 kms) at 130 to 145 miles per hour) so the french had one stop during the race for petrol and the germans had 3 to 4 stops during 500km race duration and the tyre rubbing when having to brake or accelerate hard was also in favor of the 4.5 litres. In the 1938 Grand Prix of France at Reims the course was prepared very curvy with short straights so that supercharged versions could not unfold their speeding superiority. In the end it was the longer petrol intervals that made Dreyfus win the Grand Prix.

[@Arctic_Falcon]

Actually, it was an injured driver (Caracciola) and an extra pitstop for a driver swap that caused the Mercedes to lose. Carracciola led until this extra pitstop.

[@PhilHenDrums]

Neal Bascomb does a great job of telling this wonderful story in his book "Faster".

[@weskalmesfinch384]

Who else is here from faster?

[@trackie1957]

I wish we had footage with the sound of the car!

[@heribertpilch8074]

This Delahaye and the Bugatti Type 41 Royale are the most interesting and best cars of ALL TIMES.

[@RideswithChuck]

Great car! Thanks for the ride.

[@olivierdebart]

en 1954 ,dommage que cette marque a disparue , a cause du plan marschal et du plans pons du gouvernement francais et de limiter les matiere premiere apres guerre ,en 1948 une 135 et 138 couter 30% plus cher qu une jaguar xk les 175 et 180 pris d une roll royce , et prioritée par les actionnaires aux vehicules militaire et camions apres guerre que des voitures de luxe