When we found our Amilcar back in 1999... in Texas, we learned from the accompanying letters the car had the intriguing 'surname' Imogen. We did a lot of research trying to figure out what was the time and the circumstances this name was attached to the car. Result: zero.
Until end of April this spring. Thirteen years after publishing these few lines about my car there was a response from Canada..! It came from the daughter of Rozanne Moizer who raced the CGSs - then better known as YW77 - at Brooklands and Silverstone in the late fifties. It appeared that Rozanne named the Amilcar after her daughter Imogen. Two weeks ago Imogen visited the PreWarCar headquarters to meet up with the car that once belonged to her mother and bears her name.
Of course we took Imogen & Imogen for a ride and we thanked the wheatergods for giving us some brilliant autumn sun for the occasion. Imogen handed over a true treasure of documents which still remained with her mother. Ranging from a queery for the start up of the british Amilcar Club (1955) by John Lisle. To the actual ex-RAF(?) goggles used by Rozanne when racing Silverstone. And one thousand items in between. We (Imogen and your scribe) are preparing a full report for the newsletter of the Amilcar-Salmson Register.