 After Tuesday's controversial Lakester, how about this for an altogether different type of hot rod? This Antipodean special started life as a 1920s Crossley 20/70 tourer, owned by Mrs Vida Jones of Sydney. Vida and her husband John were keen motor sport participants in races, trials and hill climbs in a variety of interesting cars – Vida even owned an Alfa Romeo 1750SS at one point. The Crossley was sold to Bob Pritchett in 1938, and after an accident left the engine and radiator unusable, he did what anyone would do, and fitted a supercharged Mercedes engine to the chassis... Bob didn't complete the car until the 1950s, and quickly made a splash on the VSCCA scene with his thoroughly over-the-top creation. It soon earned the nickname that it still carries today – Monster. A most appropriate name for a true Australian hot rod, which is still causing a stir today. Current owner Tim Shellshear has recounted its history in the latest issue of The Automobile, which is out now. |
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Monster - A different kind of hot rod
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Pebble Beach 2014: “The most interesting, breathtaking, swoopy cars ever built”
Concourses d’elegance will never get rid of all their stigmas about piano-gloss paint jobs shining deeper than the Kaspian sea and waxed tyres on glass plates. But then you may like to know that Pebble Beach – the concours of concourses that took place yesterday – every year submits their participators and their vehicles to the ‘Pebble Beach Tour d’elegance’ – a 65 mile drive along the winding roads of Carmel-by-the-Sea, with bonus lap at Laguna Seca raceway. Entrants are not obliged to do the tour, but the organization of the concours states ‘If two vehicles tie in class competition at the concours, the vehicle that has successfully completed the Tour gets the nod."
And so a most extraordinary range of cars could be seen along the California coastal roads last weekend, ranging from early steam cars to bright coloured Ruxtons - both featured classes for this year. Or how about this 1934 Hispana-Suiza K6 Fernandez et Darrin Coupe? It’s one of two cars commissioned by Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, and this one actually was for his wife! Another 1934 Hispano-Suiza with Fernandez et Darrin Coupé de Ville body – this time a J12 – was for himself. In true American fashion co-owner Anne Brockinton Lee said: “This is the most interesting, breathtaking, swoopy pair of formal cars ever built. For anybody. By any coachbuilder.” We’re not too sure, but she has a point!
Interestingly, the 'Best of Show' award went to a not quite so swoopy post war car for the first time since 1968. The silver grey Ferrari 375 MM of former Microsoft-boss John Shirley was given top honours. See the footage and Shirley's reaction here.
(Picture courtesy Kimball Studios)
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Art-deco Ruxtons overwhelm at Pebble Beach
Right. Holiday is over and we’re going back to work. Well, okay – just one more look back at Pebble Beach before we do just that. Now, there was quite a lot that impressed. How about a Bentley Speed Six with drophead coupe body by Saoutchik. Yes – a Bentley! Or that gorgeous little 1913 Peugeot L45 racer in between all that big machinery and century-old BIS Mercedes racers.
But it’s this image of a string of 1929/1930 front wheel driven Ruxton Sedans at the prestigious concours that stays with us above all. To see one of those crazy multi-coloured creatures is something you won’t forget soon – but four of them! We learned that this unusual colour scheme was designed by art-deco architect Joseph Urban to lengthen the appearance of the car through broad bands of white intermixed with vivid colours. Certainly a most daring feature to put on the market in the middle of the big crisis…
(Picture courtesy Kimball Studios)
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What colour to choose for George Roesch's finest saloon?
 This is about the dilemma of Stewart Wilkie. While restoring his Talbot Saloon (hear-hear!) he has arrived at the point where he needs to decide about colour. Stewart adds: "Very few of the type 110 saloons have survived as they were broken up for racing spares or converted into racing specials. Even more rare than the standard saloon is the James Young creation. Two were made and only one survives. My 1935 Talbot BA110 James Young sports saloon has the wonderful 160 BHP engine - designed by George Roesch the maestro. It was with a similar production car (not a single seater) that he lapped Brooklands at 130 m.p.h. After a 22 year restoration it wil be seen on the road by early next year. The photo above is the other one while my car - the survivor - was made for the Birkin family (Tim was one of the Bentley boys) so Brooklands green or Bentley BRG are the favourite colour options at the moment and with a month to decide I will have a bit to think on..." Editor: In view of the Brooklands story, that shade of green seems to be more close to the essence of the car. Yet that's only our humble opinion. What would be your vote? Editor (2): James Fack adds to the info about the James Young coachwork as provided by Pass & Joyce Ltd.. Archie H. Pass & Charlie J. Joyce were the partners in a car-dealing business which they described - rightly or wrongly - as the largest in London and its surrounding counties (the so-called 'Home Counties'). They also fancied themselves as coachwork designers, and during the early 1930s they were either the owners of James Young & Co., or its financial backers in one form or another: I've just received an e-mail from Tom Clarke, probably the greatest authority on coachbuilding in Britain - if not in the world! - and he has a 1936/7 Pass & Joyce Rolls-Royce and Bentley sales brochure in which every single body is by James Young & Co.! I've heard it said that Charlie Joyce died young - in about 1937. Whatever, James Young & Co. was then bought by the major Rolls-Royce & Bentley dealer Jack Barclay, and he re-named it James Young & Co. Ltd. He then bought J. Gurney Nutting & Co., and transferred the latter's Chief Designer A.F.McNeil - whom many believed to be the best in the country - to James Young & Co. Ltd. Gurney Nutting then carried-on with John Blatchley as its Chief Designer - but he went to work for Rolls-Royce during the War and never left it afterwards: he part-designed the Mark VI Bentley/R-R Silver Dawn, and totally designed the Bentley S/Silver Cloud and the Bentley T/Silver Shadow! Gurney Nutting basically never recovered from this, and went out of business in about 1947... |
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Oily Rag Ford returns to the road
With The Automobile's event exclusively for unrestored cars, the Oily Rag Run, drawing ever nearer, it seems like the perfect time to take a closer look at a truly Oily Rag conservation story. This rare 1935 Ford 22hp coupé was found by owner David Acon in 2012 in the USA. Discovering it was originally an English-market car, he bought the Ford and had it shipped back home. Instead of embarking on a full restoration, he had the mechanical parts rebuilt and renewed, including a full engine rebuild, and carefully conserved the paintwork and interior in their original state.
As expected, there are some age-related scuffs and the moth has been at the seats, but overall the condition is amazingly good. David discovered why when researching the car's history: owned from new by a doctor who died in 1940, the Ford was put into storage by his widow, where it remained until 1962. After the engine was damaged in the harsh winter of 1962-63, it was again taken off the road, where it remained until 2012, meaning this rare survivor has spent more of its life off the road than on it. Read the full story of its discovery and renovation in the latest issue of The Automobile, which is out now.
(photographs by Tom Pilston)
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Lady in Racing (update: 1919 Eric-Campbell 10 h.p.)
The lady you see smiling from the seat of her car is Violette Cordery – or Violet for short. The car is a 1926 Invicta and it was this marque with which she was closely associated. Her eldest sister, Lucy, was married to Noel Macklin who founded The Invicta Motor Co. After Macklin was wounded in WW1 he employed Violet as his driver and that started a long and successful period of motor sport for our venturesome flapper where she set records behind the wheel of Invictas. In 1920, she entered the South Harting Hill Climb driving a Silver Hawk built by Macklin and it is thought she used this car to win the 1921 Junior Car Club race averaging 49.7 mph. This picture shows her at Brooklands in a GN in the early 1920s where she also raced an Eric Campbell.
In 1926, one year after the launch of the Invicta brand, Cordery led a team of six drivers around Italy's Monza circuit for 10,000 miles at an average speed of 56.47mph. The crew drove a 3-litre Invicta to that record before taking the 15,000 mile record at an average speed of 55.76mph. Later that year, the same car saw Cordery granted the nickname 'The Long Distance Lady' after she piloted it round the Montlhéry track for 5,000 miles averaging 70.7mph in a record attempt supervised by the RAC. In honour of her record-breaking attempts, Violet Cordery became the first female beneficiary of the RAC's Dewar Trophy, which celebrated the highest motoring achievement of the year.
More impressive still, in 1927 Cordery - accompanied by a mechanic, a nurse, and an RAC observer - drove around the world. The team covered 10,266 miles in five months, travelling at an average speed of 24.6mph through Europe, Africa, India, Australia, the United States, and Canada. After their return, Macklin enlarged the engine to 4.5 litres and Cordery embarked on a record breaking attempt at Brooklands. She and her sister Evelyn covered 30,000 miles in 30,000 minutes at an average of 61.57mph (earning her a second Dewar Trophy). Not satisfied with her list of records, Cordery tested her Invictas to near destruction, highlighting their build quality in the process. By 1930, she had driven a 4.5-litre Invicta tourer from London to Monte Carlo and back, at an average speed of 25.6mph. Oh, and she was in third gear all the way. Next up was London to John O'Groats and back in second gear, completed at an average 19.8mph. Finally, Cordery drove her Invicta from London to Edinburgh and back, stuck in first gear, at an average 12.5mph.
Only the circuit officials were able to stop Violet from attempting 25 miles of Brooklands in reverse, as they thought it would be too tough on the car. Instead, she proved the car's worth by completing fifty laps of the RAC's Traffic Route in top gear, at an average speed of 11.9mph. In 1931 Violet married John Stuart Hindmarsh, a racing driver and aviator. They had two daughters, of whom Susan married racing driver Roy Salvadori. Hindmarsh won Le Mans in 1935 and Salvadori won in 1959.
(Text Robin Batchelor, picture courtesy flashbak.com)
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What is it? Quiz # 377
This beautifull Brooklands rocket is a racer of ill fame. Developped for the 1100 cc class with complicated twin cam engineering ahead of it's time it was'nt very succesfull. Twin overhead cams and tubular conrods were some of the features of the car that was partially based on the equally complex production car with Italian genes.
In order to have a chance of winning the infamous PreWarCar T-shirt tell us what you know about the car which is pictured here.
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Killing the AV Monocar gremlins.
 Back in 1919, a new British Cyclecar appeared on the market. The AV was manufactured by Ward and Avey in Middlesex between 1919 and 1924. One of the more successful cyclecars, it was based on a design bought from Carden and built in the factory they had previously occupied. The first model produced was a mono-car and I was recently invited to drive the only road going example. The V-twin JAP engine is rear mounted and exposed at the back of the car with a two-speed epicyclic gearbox attached. Steering is by wire and bobbin via a centre pivot axle which also incorporates a coil spring for suspension. The front axle is only 30 inches wide with the main body akin to a streamlined coffin only a cigar shop owner would commission. Built of plywood and apparently even compressed paper, it feels remarkably comfortable and you feel like an Edwardian fighter pilot when seated. After being towed to the scrutineer, I tried to familiarise myself with all the controls. Starting the beast requires a doctorate in cyclecarology, with the throttle and choke levers needing to be in a precise position and the oil feed set, otherwise all attempts at starting will be in vain. Firing up the car involves pulling a handle directly upwards which in turn is connected to a chain which is wrapped around a simple ratcheted pulley on the end of the crank of the engine. Each failed attempt requires the ratchet to be reset. Now, after several attempts, the engine fired into life and I hastily locate the starting handle into its holder and jump into the cockpit behind the wheel. With a certain amount of stabbing in the dark, I discover the right-hand foot pedal operates the epicyclic gear and I slowly move forward. A hand brake lever on the outside of the car is linked to the only other foot pedal and I make note of this as a trundle off down the little roads of the showground. Still in first gear, I approach a bend in the road. I put my foot on what I assume is the clutch and this engages 2nd gear, finding myself hurtling towards the bend at three times the desired speed. Panic set in and not knowing where to put my hands and feet, I pull on the hand brake and the car jumps to a halt, stalling the engine. After removal of my heart from my mouth, I gather my thoughts and try to think rationally about how to tame the AV. I get the car started again and then practice using the clutch and gear system along the interlocking roads within the showground while at the same time finding the right spot for the throttle and choke. After a while, I pluck up courage to select the devil 2nd gear. The revs of the engine drop and the car accelerates swiftly like a coiled spring to about 30 mph. With the lack of engine noise and the combination of the suspension, I feel like I am floating down the road. This momentary lapse of concentration is erased as I am aware of another bend rapidly approaching. Just then my previous practice pays off and I somehow find 1st gear and slow down to take the corner. After several more practice runs, I drive back to our meeting point ready to be the pace car for the afternoon selection of cyclecar friendly driving tests. I can see why the AV monocar was so popular in its day. Like me, the owners must have felt like a WW1 fighter pilot. However, I’m sure if you look back through old copies of ‘The Cyclecar’ magazine, it is full of stories of crashed AV’s and lucky escapes with the owners wiping sweat from their brows. Text by Tim Gunn. Images courtesy of: Geoff Gray – Nick Harrop – Peter Allen. Thanks go to Roland Duce. Micky Hudson, Bob Jones and Peter Allen. |
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A long weekend Mystery (Update: 1913-20 FN? Minerva? Vauxhall?)
Alain Legrand sends this photo that was shot in Belgium around 1920-1925. It seems the couple depicted just has returned from a long weekend or similar. There's still some luggage waiting in the gravel behind the automobile. A lady passenger is bringing in her luggage to the big house. The car seems nearly new and of american making if we're correct. An interesting detail is the nearly total absence of brightwork except for the headlight rims. Also the closed spare tire cover is drawing our attention. Dodge Brothers?
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A $200 American Dream
Auctions are wonderful opportunities to dream, and we all need our dreams. We must believe that dreams can come true and so when deciding which one car to buy at the 7th annual Auburn Auction held by Worldwide Auctioneers on Saturday August 30th in Auburn, Indiana (Labor Day weekend) we are faced with a difficult decision.
One man whose dream came true is Virgil Sciolaro who always admired his brother’s Auburn and so one day in 1945, he took out a chattel mortgage for $200 and bought a 1935 Auburn 851 SC Boattail Speedster. He was only 18, but he had eyes for a girl called Delores Sayers and his new car helped his courting. Whether it was the throaty burble of the 4.5 litre supercharged Lycoming straight 8, or the oh-so-stylish body lines, or Virgil’s own charm which won Delores but they married in 1948 and went on honeymoon in the Auburn thus naming it the ‘Honeymoon Auburn’.
Lot 38 is a 1938 Talbot-Lago T-23 Sport Cabriolet with rare and fabulous coachwork by Figoni & Falaschi. The race-bred four-litre inline six transmits its 140 horsepower through a Wilson competition pre-selector gearbox offering you just over 120 mph. We confess our preference for the Talbot, but if we are out-bid we will have missed the chance to buy the Auburn in Lot 17. But enough dreaming – there are plenty of other exquisite cars on offer. Lot 55 is a 1934 Packard Twelve 1108 Convertible Sedan sporting aristocratic custom coachwork by Dietrich in vivid two-tone green and black canvas top.
The catalogue entry describes its 7 litre 160 H.P. V12 engine, three-speed selective synchromesh gearbox with vacuum-assisted clutch and brakes. In 1934 America was in the throes of the great depression but Packard threw caution to the wind and offered a dazzling choice of 55 different models and the select models designed by Dietrich had price tags double those of standard models. If this one is too expensive, the auction offers 17 other Packards.
There are just two Cords however, a 1929 Cord L-29 Town Car and a 1931 Cord L-29 Convertible Sedan. They both have 4.8 litre straight eight Lycomings, three-speed gearboxes and hydraulic brakes but the surprise is their front wheel drive – a remarkable feat of engineering for a car of its day. The town car’s 1929 owner transferred the body from his Minerva and it has retained its wonderful patina to this day.
There are 189 lots of automobilia offered before the cars including a Circa 1948 Schwinn Whizzer Gasoline Motorbike – it’s all in the name, as we found out with the owners of the Honeymoon Auburn.
(Text Robin Batchelor, picture courtesy Worldwide Auctions.)
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Portugese pumper mysteries
 Not a long time ago several interesting fire pumps were exposed at a Portuguese classic car event. The 1930 Citroen C6 (photo 3) or the 1929 Brockway (Photo 4) seem to be fully original while others like the 1929 Buick (photo 5), 1930 Cadillac (photo 6) or 1920s Packard (photo 7) have suffered of deep transformations during the postwars years. The Packard seems to be derived of a grand luxury, maybe even from the desirable "Twin six" if we observe the steering wheel. Also there were two trucks that despite their original appearance we haven´t been able to find the concrete marque. The one of the main photo is a real oddball with this rounded radiator. The round shape indicates a possible french origin (Delaunay-Bellevillle?) but this baroque words in the front are unidentifiable for us, as is the little badge of the more current fire engine of photo 2, equally difficult to name. Do you have any idea? (photos Unai Ona; text Francisco Carrion) |
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The Pierce Arrow must go
What do you do when you find a superb unrestored 1931 Lincoln Dietrich convertible sedan? No issue for David Schultz, director of the Stan Hywet Concours d'Elegance. He has Lincoln blood in his veins, so he will always choose the 'Lincoln highway'. Even when it will ask for sacrifices in other areas. In this particular case he probably will need to say fare well to the untouched, never restored 1936 Pierce Arrow 1601 Sedan pictured above.
When David is taking care for a car he likes to do it properly. See what he has done with the unrestored Lincoln ... (not a drop of paint added so far). The paint is not original, so he considers bringing the car back to factory livery with Slate Green(upper) over Hamilton Green(lower).
Sorry you won't see the Pierce nor the Lincoln at the Stan Hyweth Concours as David doesn't want to be distracted from his organising role and most probably will use a golfcart only. But no worries, no less than 160 superb other automobiles that were carefully selected will turn up there. Stan Hywet Concours d'Elegance, 19-21 September
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Hats off - goggles on.
We are lucky to live in this digital age and today we invite you to revisit an old friend we introduced back in 2012. Our picture shows Joan Newton Cuneo in 1911 at the wheel of her Pope Hummer (corr. 1911 Knox) with which she set the woman’s speed record of 111.5 MPH. This was after her previous successes had helped The American Automobile Association ban women from entering their events .
Even before her motoring career, Cuneo had displayed her spirit when she helped start the Ladies Four- in-Hand Club for driving a coach and four – a pastime not for the faint hearted! Men had their own Coaching Club open only to gentlemen.
The digital age has helped author Dr. Elsa A. Nystrom complete her painstaking research into today’s subject and publish the fruits of her four years’ labour in Mad for Speed - The Racing Life of Joan Newton Cuneo and it has also helped us receive a copy through the letterbox with an easy click of a mouse.
The book was published in 2013 and more pictures have emerged since our first story. This one is rare since it is the only ‘staged’ shot where Cuneo looks clean and posed as opposed to her usual business like images. You’ll like this one of her at the bench and here she is changing a tyre.
Surviving pictures often show our Friday lady wearing an elegant hat, but as Dr. Nystrom says in her comment on our original story, “ The hat came off and the goggles went on when she put the pedal to the metal.”
Text Robin Batchelor, picture courtesy Pettee Memorial Library / Wilmington Historical Society.
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About quiz #377 : 1923 Newton (Ceirano) Brooklands
Well this was one of those cars that you either know or never haVE heard about. The car that was subject of quiz 377 turned up at a most pleasant 'strawberries & bubbles' event at Bicester Heritage airfield.
It is the 1100 cc 1923 Newton 200 miles Brooklands racer as developped by Noel Newton. You can read the various knowledgeable additions about the car from the comments of last week's competitors. We particularly liked the comments by Gerry Barrett. Why? As he explained about the name and second name of the car and as you know our 'What is it?" quiz is in fact about namegiving. Gerry added that the car was only to become the 1923 Newton - Ceirano when Newton with business partner Bennet became importers for Ceirano cars. This fits nicely with the the remarks of Frazer Sloan son of one of the former owners and Ceirano connoisseur Nick Sloan, who explained us that there are virtually no Ceirano parts on the car.
Congratulations Gerry! Next week a new chance. Or start chewing on this weekend's post-war quiz car..!
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Gordon Bennett Balloon Race; follow the flight! (ed.Updated below)
The Gordon Bennett Balloon Race has started last night from Vichy in France. 19 balloon crews took off with balloons filled with hydrogen and the winner will be the pilot who travels the furthest.
The best will stay in the air 70 hours or more open to the elements in a wicker basket. Balloons can only travel where the wind takes them and nobody knows where they will land, but conditions look as though they will travel east and may end up anywhere from Poland to Romania.
Gordon Bennett published The New York Herald in Paris and offered a magnificent trophy in 1906 to the winner and sat back waiting for the stories to roll in which would sell his newspaper – just as the aeroplanes and motor cars had done in the similar Gordon Bennett Races.
You can watch the progress of the different teams on a live-tracking page HERE. The picture shows Charles Rolls ascending from Paris in 1906 and he landed in northern England 26 hours later in third place.
SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE.
The balloons have been flying for 30+ hours and leader ‘Swiss 2’ has travelled 870 km mostly at 15,000 feet breathing oxygen in freezing temperatures and are just crossing the coastline of Croatia. The other balloons elected to fly at lower altitudes and headed south east towards Marseille. Four have landed before the coast and the remaining eleven balloons are currently drifting across the sea towards Corsica and Sardinia.
Weather conditions, air traffic control and remaining sand ballast dictate their options but some may attempt landings in the unstable heat of the day on those islands. Not easy! Their retrieve drivers are waiting in Italy for instructions.
You can watch the balloons’ progress on the live tracking page and also get a taste of what the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race involves by seeing pictures of the launch HERE, a video of champion Vincent Leys ‘weighing off’ his balloon at the start HERE, and my commentary on the race HERE.
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About quiz #377: 1923 Newton (Ceirano) Brooklands
Well this was one of those cars that you either know or never haVE heard about. The car that was subject of quiz 377 turned up at a most pleasant 'strawberries & bubbles' event at Bicester Heritage airfield.
It is the 1100 cc 1923 Newton 200 miles Brooklands racer as developped by Noel Newton. You can read the various knowledgeable additions about the car from the comments of last week's competitors. We particularly liked the comments by Gerry Barrett. Why? As he explained about the name and second name of the car and as you know our 'What is it?" quiz is in fact about namegiving. Gerry added that the car was only to become the 1923 Newton - Ceirano when Newton with business partner Bennet became importers for Ceirano cars. This fits nicely with the the remarks of Frazer Sloan son of one of the former owners and Ceirano connoisseur Nick Sloan, who explained us that there are virtually no Ceirano parts on the car.
Congratulations Gerry! Next week a new chance. Or start chewing on this weekend's post-war quiz car..!
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The World's Fastest (Indian) Cyclecar?
 Keith McElroy spotted this sporty cyclecar at Steam & Traction rally at Lake Goldsmith, Victoria, Australia two years ago..! And the mschine is still haunting him. The engine is an aircooled Indian V-twin. Furthermore one can see it is a frontwheel drive. A rather intersting machine We suspect the car is a one-off, and we're sure there are a few friends out there who can tell Keith and all of us all about it. |
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What will you be bringing home from Beaulieu?
Beaulieu is on our mind! Only a few days away from totally unexpected treasures. And only a few days away from unexpectedely selling that heap of parts. You'll never know what happens and one thing is sure, whatever you think of Beaulieu, it's never a bore. Like the nearby sea Beaulieu gives, Beaulieu takes...
So what have we got here? A prototype of a Lotus Super Seven van? Well not quite, although we're not sure what the designer/engineer had in mind when he started of with his 1936 MG TA in the sixties. Seller Bonhams describes the MG TA Special tongue in cheek as a 'breadvan'. One thing is sure, when you get EPG32 on the road again, you won't go unnoticed. And Beaulieu 2014 will stay in your memory forever. See you this weekend!
(photo courtesy Bonhams)
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An Eastbourne Seaside Mystery (UPDATE: 1906-07 FIAT ?)
 Nick Graves sent us above picture of his great grandfather William Charles Butler standing next to an impressive machine. Nick writes that the man was a 'motor engineer' in Eastbourne, Sussex somewhere from around 1910 to 1940. His garage was located at 8, Seaside, as his old business card shows (telephone 1005 - love it). The romantic street name - you can hear the sea gulls cry - has meanwhile been renamed into A259, with number 8 now housing a dull three-story-appartment block. And so it seems that much of Butler's Garage heritage has been erased for good, with only Eastbourne pier on a stone's throw away as a silent and now ghostly reminder of days gone past. Still then, Nick wonders about that lovely picture. Who knows what kind of car his great grandfather was standing so proudly next to? The number plate DI 37 indicates it was registered in Kent after 1913, but we guess the car is a bit older. More like 1909, or? Check the engine design up closely - do we see four seperate pots? And what about the crankcase(?) cover left on the ground? Is the brass ID-plate high up on the right of the firewall... Peugeot? But then the XL Rushmore headlights may bring us in the US. Over to you! |
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