 Visiting a friend´s garage we spotted these framed photo clippings from a French but otherwise unidentified newspaper with photos of three veteran racing voiturettes. In the article there are some mentions to the Decauville marque and the car in photo two seems to be a "regular" Decauville from around 1898. However, In the main photo you can see a mystery racing car with evident signs of an unhappy 'parking' incident, in the remains of the article it is described as "Voiturelle de course Nº 66". The aerodynamic front end is most curious and the car could be another Decauville. In photo 3 there is another racing car with the more concrete description "regular automobile with special seat" and in in smaller letters the name of the driver "Thery". In the article also appears a mentioning of the race "Paris - Amsterdam - Paris" over 1.550 kilometers and in a short search we have found this Paris-Amsterdam-Paris Race of 1898 with Decauville winning the voiturette class. Can you identify correctly voiturette nr. 64, car nr.65 and 66? |
|
|
↧
A wobbly Wednesday Mystery (update: 1899 Tour de France)
↧