1935 Delahaye 138-135 Sport

 Cool windshield design

The 1940 Coachcraft Roadster, a Hollywood original, with history and a great story (plus a website)

The grill was added by Kurtis in the late 40's when the 2nd owner had it primped.

  because the cars are so close together, and reflect each other, there is only so much that can be done to make a good looking photo happen. So, I recommend that you take a look at the photo on http://www.1940coachcraft.com that is how nice a photo can be when you can control the surroundings and setting.

 beautiful interior

 oh hell yes.

No trunk, no top. It is a roadster

In brief, after the great depression, Rudy Stroessel left Darrin, and with a couple other coach builders, started a company in Hollywood. One of, or maybe their first customer, ws a 17 yr old, with $1500, an Essex framerails, Ford flathead, and 40 Ford front frame section, Columbia 2 spd rear end, and Ford side shift trans.

The frame was boxed, then welded to the body, and thus it became a unit body construction... and hte footwells were below the frames, predating the Hudson trend, Read about the car, it's history as a magazine cover car, it's trophys and car show awards at   http://www.1940coachcraft.com 

least expensive and very competitive way to get into vintage racing like the Mille Miglia, Le Mans Classic, and Targa Florio... or car events like the Grand National Roadster Show, a '29 Chrysler model 77 Le Mans Roadster

for less than $100,000, this Chrysler will get you access to the word's best historic rallies, races and tours and provide you with one of the most reliable, competitive and beautiful pre-war vehicles ever built!

This Chrysler is able to out perform and certainly able to out-brake the similar era Bentley, Alfa and Bugatti's with incredible reliability and simplicity and it does so at less than 1/10th the price!

Unlike the significantly more expensive Bentley-Bugatti-Alfas of the day, the Chrysler 77 featured full-four-wheel, self adjusting, double leading-shoe hydraulic brakes, both front and rear.  The front axle is tubular and under-slung giving both excellent handling and impossibly good braking that the owner's of the other three mentioned machines only dream about having!  This Chrysler "show-room" ready racer also features simple but full weather protection as well as a sporting, full-folding front wind-screen and an extremely user-friendly, four-speed gearbox rather than the compromising three-speed units usually found on many of the other machines of this era.

In short, this is an all "matching numbers" completely documented, rust and accident free, road-race-car that can be driven every day in the "rear world," toured with and rallied as well as raced competitively in the finest events world-wide.


And it's in need of a new home, 


Contact Bill Noon

Symbolic International
Symbolic Motor Car Company
7440 La Jolla Blvd.
La Jolla, California 92037 USA

Phone    619 840 7811
Email    bnoon@symbolicmotors.com

One of 5 specially constructed 1929 boattail roadster Essex, by Hudson, coachbuilt by Biddle and Smart... all to make the Essex regional (5 regions got 1 each) sales increase when customers learned what a great car Essex made.

 now... why is the bottom line in a language obviously not on an original factory tag?

 I noticed that the top of this fuel apparatus says Vacuum Gasoline System

 what an exquisite instrument panel

 How the running board rubber mat has remained in such incredible condition is a mystery, could anyone be reproducing such a small sales item? Who could possibly buy enough of these to make a company produce them for profit?

 Odd that the kick plate is not one the running board, but keeps feet from damaging the alloy (which I think means Aluminum) custom handmade bodywork

this is only the 2nd Essex I've ever seen in San Diego

1938 540K Benz... mmmm, nice!

Deuces at the Grand National Roadster Show