1939 DELAHAYE TYPE 165
                 "Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet"
                    Owned by Peter W. Mullin

Engine:   V-12

How many superlatives can be written for one automobile? 
Certainly it would be difficult to find more exciting coachwork
or a more interesting history than this grand Parisian possesses.

built for the 1939 World's Fair in New York, it was held by U.S.
Customs until the end of the war when it was purchased by
filmaker Roger Barlow.  Since the show car's engine was found to
be an empty shell with no parts available, Mr. Barlow installed a
Cadillac V-8.  The car's whereabouts from 1946 to 1965 are still
unknown, but in 1981 this very forlorn and poorly maintained
World's Fair showpiece was discovered in Fresno, California in
the hands of two elderly ladies.  Eventually Peter Mullin and Jim
Hull purchased the car and spent eight years restoring it.  They
had also found the original engine in the collection of Count
Dunhoff in Germany and after a five-year restoration the engine
was reunited with the automobile.  C'est Magnifique!!