{"id":496077,"date":"2016-12-01T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=38718"},"modified":"2024-09-05T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:53:32","slug":"sophistication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sophistication\/","title":{"rendered":"1948 Delahaye 135M &#8211; Sophistication (Chassis #800998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p><strong>1948 Delahaye 135M Cabriolet\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to decide whether the Italians or the French designed the most beautiful cars in the years prior to World War II. After the war, though, the French appear to have had a decided advantage in design, possibly because their auto industry was quicker to recover than the heavily bombed Italian industry. And, the French had their independent carrosserie, including the Carrosserie Automobile of Figoni et Falaschi who, along with other coachbuilders in and around Paris, continued to sculpt beautiful automobile forms, such as the 1948 Delahaye 135M Cabriolet that is the subject of this profile.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-823687 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_9067-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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And, the French had their independent carrosserie, including the Carrosserie Automobile of Figoni et Falaschi who, along with other coachbuilders in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":823689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,17177],"tags":[17178,1464,17197,20869],"class_list":["post-496077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delahaye","category-chassis-histories","tag-chassis-histories","tag-delahaye","tag-delahaye-chassis-histories","tag-delahaye-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1948 Delahaye 135M - Sophistication (Chassis #800998)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sophistication\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1948 Delahaye 135M - Sophistication (Chassis #800998)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1948 Delahaye 135M Cabriolet\u00a0 It is difficult to decide whether the Italians or the French designed the most beautiful cars in the years prior to World War II. 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