How They Built Cars When Beauty Was All That Mattered

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I saw some gorgeous cars at the Concours in Detroit in 2018...
This was Andre Delage's personal car when Delage was at its height. He later went bankrupt an ended up riding. bicycle in old age

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A beautiful Delahaye:

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A 1948 Talbot-Lago and a coachbuilt Bugatti, not sure where I took pic:

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Some Alfas, a Tipo 33 at The Hague, and a prewar car at the Simeone in Philadelphia and my favourite modern the Montreal;

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Some of the greatest Ferraris, The Testa Rossa, the 250 GTO, and the 250 SWB. The first two were at the Simeone, at an exhibit in Phoenix at the art museum and Meadowbrook, the SWB at the Ferrari Museum in Modena:

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The SWB

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My Favourite BMW ever , THE 1940 Mille Miglia car at The BMW Museum, plus a modern interpretation the built in 1998:

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A Horch 851 I saw at the Nürburgring. Horch was absorbed into Auto Union, so Herr Horch could not use his name any more. ( Horch meant to hear in German, so he started a new company called Audi, which means to hear in Latin. The car below is the never-built Audi Avus concept car in the Auto Union Museum in Ingoldstadt

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A couple of 540Ks, one at the Gifford (?) Museum and one at the French National motor museum:

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a rare unrestored SSK in The Hague and a rather nice 770K IN Sinsheim. This has a dark story, was Himmler's personal car: