By Jay Hirsch
Howard “Dutch” Darrin was an American-born car designer/stylist who came of age designing cars in Paris, working at first with fellow American Thomas Hibbard and later, during the great Art Deco era, with financial backing by Argentinian born J. Fernandez, who lived in Paris.
Darrin is best known for the work he did with Packard on his 1937-1942 custom designed and built Packard Darrin and his 1954 Kaiser Darrin with sliding doors.
Delage was one of the most famous and successful of the great French cars of the 1920s and 1930s. It was known for its coach-built cars, its engines, and, to some degree, its engineering. Not that many cars of the early 1920s and 1930s put much importance on engineering and safety over such aspects as: coach-built, speed, style, and design. In 1919 Delage had four-wheel brakes, one of only a handful of cars to …
