The Delage D8 is a coupé, cabriolet, sedan/saloon or roadster bodies from Delage, built from 1929 to 1940, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold.
The story
The Delage D8 was an eight-cylinder luxury car produced by Delage between 1929 and 1940. The 4061 cc engine with a bore of 77 mm, and a stroke of 109 mm of the original D8 placed it in the 23CV car tax band which also defined its position high up in the market hierarchy.
Delage provided rolling chassis to be bodied and fitted out by prestigious carroussiers such as Letourneur et Marchand and Chapron operating (in most cases) in the Paris area. The result was that the D8 appeared, throughout its life, in a wide variety of (frequently) elegant coupé, cabriolet, sedan/saloon or roadster shapes.
Under the skin
The record carries the shape — a coupé, cabriolet, sedan/saloon or roadster bodies. The engine, output and weight have not yet reached the open record, and MotorJury does not guess at them.
Its place in the line
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Maserati Type V4, the Lancia type Dilambda torpedo, the Mercedes-Benz W11 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Delage catalogue sit the Delage D12 and the Delage D4.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Delage D8 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.