Delage D8–120S

Aérodynamic Coupe

o win but one Best in Show award at the Pebble Beach

Concours d’Elegance is a remarkable achievement. To

win four times is something else altogether. Sam and

Emily Mann won their fourth Best in Show in 2005 with

this very car, a 1937 Delage D8-120S with a Pourtout

coachbuilt body.

During the year 2005, the Pebble Beach concours honored

the Delage marque with a centennial celebration of the auto-

maker’s genesis in 1905. Eight cars represented Delage, a

company that was eventually absorbed by Delahaye in 1935.

Delahaye then introduced a new eight-cylinder engine in 1936

in its D8-100 and D8-120 chassis, which were the basis for a

number of cars that were built by the top coachbuilders of the

day. This particular car, however, is built on a prototype

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