3D Printing Saves
100-Year-Old Grand Prix Car
Thanks to the 3D printing technology, the world’s only surviving 1914 Delage Type-S grand prix car was saved by a group of mechanics in Australia.
The car, which turned 103 this year, is now back on the road running as good as new. It was made a few months before World War 1, to compete at a premier race in Lyon, France. Due to WW1, the premier race came to a halt and the Delage Type-S was sold to a buyer in the United States. A few years later in the 1920s, it was brought to Australia to compete at local racing events. The Delage was then driven by a number of Australia's earliest racer’s and was once even owned by the country’s motorcar racing legend, Lex Davison.
Nevertheless, back in 2014 the car’s engine block cracked, causing water to drive out of it’s exhaust system. As a result, the Delage was grounded and was left to rust in a mechanic's workshop near the city of Castlemaine, which was 130 kilometres northeast of the state capital, Melbourne.
With only three cars of the Delage Type-S grand prix ever made in 1914, spare parts from this impressive milestone of
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