1938 Delage Special

This car took part in the Brookland and Goddard Trophies race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

Listed in the programme of the event as Rod King's 1938 Delage Special, it was based on a 1938 Delage D70 Saloon and originally used that car's 2.7 litre 6 cylinder engine It was intended to be a replica of the ERA Delage, a car that was one of the original 1927 Delage GP cars fitted with a 1½ litre ERA engine. When the Delage engine very soon gave up the ghost it was replaced by a supercharged 1938 2½ litre SS Jaguar engine, bored out to 2,664cc. The green car behind the Delage is the Rejo Mk4 of Simon Edwards that competed in the Hawthorn International Trophy race.

Delage/SS Special

This car took part in the Brooklands and Goddards Trophy Race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

It's Rod King's 1938 Delage/SS Special. The donor car was a 1938 Delage D70 Saloon and originally used that car's 2.7 litre 6 cylinder engine It was intended to be a replica of the ERA Delage, a car that was one of the original 1927 Delage GP cars fitted with a 1½ litre ERA engine. When the Delage engine very soon gave up the ghost it was replaced by a supercharged 1938 2½ litre SS Jaguar engine, bored out to 2664cc. I'm not quite sure why the car was red, the Italian racing colours - it is basically a French car now fitted with a British engine so you would expect to to be French blue, or possibly British green. I notice that more recent photos of the car show that it's now French blue.