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The 100 Miles of Amsterdam, Fifth Edition
What's it gonna be this year? Rain, snow or ...? In a country like Holland you never know. What we do know is that, whatever the weather, the roads will be narrow, the edge of the canals very close and...
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Oh, those barns!
Being an auctioneer does have its advantages. UK based Richard Edmonds recently was contacted by the daughter of an elderly gentleman. He owned, she said, four old cars, one of which she thought was...
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A summer Serendipity.
The Twenty Second Summer Serendipity* was held on Sunday the 25th August at The Royal Oak, Herefordshire (also known for the VSCC's new year gathering). Mark Garfitt and team organised despite...
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A Bordeaux Bugatti Mystery (update: #57197 Stelvio by Gangloff)
What an abundance of information in this otherwise nearly deserted center of Agen, soutwest France. The building with clock was identified as the old Marché Couvert which was demolished in 1970. The...
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Roads are meant to be flat
Today we are used to roads that can be driven on at all times. But it hasn't always been like that. In the early days roads were not paved. No problem in summer, except for the dust, but in winter...
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What are they selling? (update: 1938 Plymouth)
Is it art they are selling? Is it palmtrees? Home decoration? Fashion? No we understand they are trying to sell the car and photographer Lars Plougmann took the assignment quite serious. Possibly...
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About Quiz #352: 1923 Diatto tipo 20
Sorry it not a Fiat and no FN either. Still we found that last week's quiz car is better known than expected. It is clear that many competitors recognised the car by memory of this specific car. But...
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Own a piece of MG Race History
By editor Rutger Booy: Ask any schoolboy to draw a sports car. What do you get? Four wheels, a small, two-seater body and of course no top. To sum it up: what the kid draws is the basic shape of a...
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A fine six-in-line Mystery (update: Cime? Renault?)
Within a few consecutive hours we received the same set of photos from Ed Fallon and Arnoud van der Sman. This mystery engine turned up in a Californian warehouse and is so far not indentified. Due to...
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Own a piece of MG Race History
By editor Rutger Booy: Ask any schoolboy to draw a sports car. What do you get? Four wheels, a small, two-seater body and of course no top. To sum it up: what the kid draws is the basic shape of a...
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Pick up a Benz during Beaulieu!
Calling all fans of the three-pointed star. We suggest you take a look at the digital catalogue of RM Auctions, who will have their next auction at Battersea Evolution in London on September 8 and 9...
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A wobbly Wednesday Mystery (update: 1899 Tour de France)
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...
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First call from... and last call for Morocco.
The first motorcars were the hi-tec toys of the rich and famous. And one would expect the first royalty to buy an automobile to be from the "Old World". Not so. The first sovereign to buy an...
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A game of Golf, anyone?
Introducing a new model can be done in many ways. But what to do with a new pick-up model? Chevrolet seemingly got tired of the usual bales of hay, so they asked the cast of a musical to do the honors....
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What is it? Quiz # 353
This is the kind of quiz, where we are not going to use many words. It's the photo that should do it. So study it carefully. All we can tell you is that the idea originated in 1903 and to help you...
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Ivan Mahy bought a new car.
by Fons Alkemade: Some weeks ago I visited the Mahymobiles automotive museum in Leuze, Belgium. I have been in the museum regularly for the last seven years and every time I come there Ivan Mahy and...
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Meet Rod Wade, Adventurer
110 Years ago H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker were the first to drive coast-to-coast across America in their 1903 20 hp Winton. Their journey took about sixty days. Now enter Rod Wade. He's...
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Celebrating 100 years of Morris cars
What better way to celebrate the anniversary of a car by driving the earliest survivor of the breed? Whilst many of the oldest examples of cars have been consigned to permanent static display in...
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The essence of the hobby: Beaulieu
Still slightly exhausted from three days of Beaulieu + the long way home we flipped through our photos and found these two shots of cars at the stand of Bernard Williamson, former president of the...
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Double Duck Mystery Phaeton (update: the "Toast-rack Tourer" ?)
We thought we knew all about Donald Duck's cars. We all know his adventures with the 1934 Belchfire Runabout "313", earlier described on these pages (somebody even built a 3D lifesize tribute). But...
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