1947 DELAHAYE 135 MS Cabriolet "Vedette" Chapron

Serial number: 800486
French registration
Two-seater convertible by H.

Chapron
- Car shown at the 1947 Paris Motor Show
- Only 4 survivors
- The most accomplished of Henri Chapron's creations
- The only one with recessed handles
- One of two with rear spats.
- Restoration in progress at the Touraine workshops
- Sold in its current state

After the war, the 135 was still the raison d'être of Delahaye.

Although the war interrupted production of the "normal" 135, the Delahaye 135M soon resumed production, still bodied by the same French masters.


Henri Chapon, who had already bodied the 135 before the war, launched a new design for the first post-war salon, which was to become his new spearhead: the Vedette.
This is undoubtedly one of the most envied and accomplished models by coachbuilder Henri Chapron, the undisputed master and repository of Grand Classicisme Français.


As Marc-Antoine COLIN points out in his book on "Delahaye 135",...