£32,625
1927 Delage DI Sport Boat-Tail Tourer Restored at a cost of over £70,000
H&H Auctioneers • UK • 29 Nov 2023
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£32,625
1927 Delage DI Sport Boat-Tail Tourer Restored at a cost of over £70,000
UK • 29 Nov 2023
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1927 Delage DI Sport Boat-Tail Tourer, one of only twenty surviving models, boasts a rich history, including residence in Uruguay and the USA before arriving in the UK in 2001. Subject to an extensive restoration costing over £70,000, it features a re-manufactured body using original wooden supports and is VSCC eligible, making it a rare and handsome offering.
Condition
7
The car is described as being in 'very good overall' condition with regards to its engine, gearbox, electrical equipment, interior trim, bodywork, and paintwork. It has been subject to an extensive 'chassis up' restoration between 2001 and 2012, and while it was re-bodied, it used much of the original wooden support frame.
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16,883 miles (via 2012 MOT)
23113
RHD
United Kingdom
Manual
BF 6074
1927
Auction
£32,625
1927 Delage DI Sport Boat-Tail Tourer Restored at a cost of over £70,000
H&H Auctioneers • UK • 29 Nov 2023
Market Position:
Highest 10% of Past Sales
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Description
By the early 1920s, Delage was among France’s pre-eminent car manufacturers.
Founded in 1905 by ex Turgan-Foy and Peugeot employee, Louis Delage, the Courbevoie concern was known throughout Europe for the quality and sophistication of its designs.
No stranger to racing, the marque’s magnificent 1.5 litre straight-eight GP cars were crowned ‘champion du monde’ in both 1926 and 1927.
While its other forays into competition included a 10.5 litre landspeed record challenger and a string of Le Mans entries.
Like many of its peers, Delage used the latter event as a test-bed for forthcoming production model components.
Thus, when the DI debuted in 1923, its sophisticated overhead-valve cylinder head had already seen service at Le Sarthe.
In addition to a willing 2121cc four-cylinder engine, the DI also boasted a four-speed manual gearbox, elegant leaf-sprung ladder-frame chassis and all-round drum brakes.
Understood to be one of just twenty DI Sport models to have survived, chassis 231...
Price Analysis vs Other DIs
£11,200
Lowest Price (Since 2020)
£22,658
Median Price (Since 2020)
£32,625
Highest Price (Since 2020)
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MOT Information
Expired
Expired on 2nd May 2013
Latest MOT mileage:
16,883 miles
MOT History
Passed
On 3rd May 2012, 16,883 miles
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