An old friend would like to know the make/model of this vintage touring car. Collective family memory says it's a Nash but no one is sure but it does bear a strong resemblance to a late 1920s model.
The picture is taken next to the entrance of the Royal Castle of Bran, better known these days as Count Dracula's Castle from the 1897 Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker. The two ladies in the car seem quite relaxed and happy, despite the vampire habits of the Transylvanian monster that lived there. It's a wonderful story which has transfixed each new generation with progressively modernised film adaptations of the old myth.
Those of you with good memories may remember Mary McConnell Borah, a friday lady from 2014 , who met a resident of Bran Castle - Princess Ileana of Romania - and amongst these pictures of the Princess there is one of her standing beside her husband and his aeroplane. Am I dreaming or could it be the lady on the right of today's picture?
The date today is friday 13th - unlucky for some - but fortune seems to have favoured our merry band of motorists. However, they were born too early and are therefore unlucky not to have had the chance to thrash their Nash down the nearby Transfagarasan highway - built between 1970 and1974 on the personal orders of Nicolae Ceausescu. This 150 km long spectacular road which passes over the Fagaras mountains in Transylvania was made famous by the TV Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson after filming an episode there and describing it as "The World's best driving road."
It's on our bucket list!
Text Robin Batchelor, picture courtesy Radu Comsa.
(UPDATE: Robert Marenzi reciogniesd the photo from a quiz we did in 2014. ( His memory obviosuly is better than ours!) The car depicted is - sorry Robin , not a Nash - a Buick Master Six.