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An Edwardian Sports Car Mystery (update: 1907 or 1908 Scout )

Update: It looks like Ariejan Bos cracked the mystery once more, check this page about Percy Dean and Scout Motors of Salisbury.Earlier text:Peter McGann sends a photo of an unknown edwardian sports...

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What is it? Quiz #414

Here we have a nearly forgotten car maker. Even the most respected classic car encyclopedia dedicates only a few lines to this Belgian brand, and the information is not very concise. The picture shown...

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Sunbeam Record Breaker back to the beach!

In March 1926, Sir Henry Segrave drove his Sunbeam Tiger along Southport beach at a speed of 152.33mph, capturing the world record and becoming the fastest man on earth. The car is now set to return...

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A Burned Down Convertible Mystery? (update: 1938 Buick Series 40 Convertible...

This is an early post-war photo made after heavy bombing near the village of Schijndel (probably in September 1944 when the allied forced fought their way form Normandy direction of Arnhem)  in the...

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Salooning in Florida?

On Saturday 12 March  RM/Sotheby's are holding their annual auction to coincide with the Concours d'Elegance being held at Amelia Island.  From the abundant offerings we limited ourselves to a choice...

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A 'Monaco' Mystery? (Chénard & Walcker!)

Christian Philippsen from Monaco - a reputed concours jury member - sends this picture of a fine vintage tourer and adds: "I am trying to identify the car on the attached picture.  Would you kindly...

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Why Scout?

Last Friday we showed you an edwardian mystery sports car. Frequent visitor and honorable jury member Ariejan Bos came with 1908 Scout whish seems highly probable.He wrote: " This illustration from the...

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Today we’d like to introduce you to three ladies - two real and one fictional. Let’s start with the Honourable Phryne Fisher ( pronounced Fry-knee) – the star of the popular period detective drama Miss...

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About Quiz #414: 1923 Dunamis C-8 Limousine

Over 20 responses answers to the quiz of last Saturday, not a bad score. An extremely rare (probably no lonfer existing) and interesting automobile? The clue about its belgian origins definitely was a...

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Honorary member of the DVSCC: Philine Heikens

Last Sunday the new year's meeting of the Dutch Vintage Sports Car Club took place at the workshop of Ab van Egmond just outside Amsterdam.  Some 70 active members came together to evaluate 2015 and to...

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Is our Amilcar a factory racer?

Some ten years ago we purchased an Amilcar which, at the time and having no great experience of the marque, I believed to be a mixture of CGS and CGSs parts. In any case it drove well and looked...

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Skinner's union: the story behind S.U.carburetter

By Michael E Ware:(please note: I have used the spelling for carburetter which is used throughout the book)There can be few old car enthusiasts who have not experienced a car which was fitted with a...

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Sculpturer of Bugatti brakes: Eldon Guay

One of the people who visited our stand at the recent Rétromobile was Eldon Guay from Calgary, Canada. He is a sculpturer, who likes to work with contrasting materials like carrara marble and stainless...

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Alvis for sale with room to improve.

Today is Day 1 of Richard Edmond Auctions' three- day sale  in Chippenham, Wiltshire and the car lots on saturday include several vintage Alvis cars at easily affordable prices. There are six 12/50...

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Pic-nic season is getting closer

Western Europe is still chilly and wet. And we hear more about the flu which is going round than about pleasant pic-nic drive outs. So we can't blame our charming Driday team for wearing long and heavy...

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What is it? Quiz #415

A reknown photo by the famous French photographer Louis Lumière of a car, of which the identity was hitherto unsolved. Now it is time to finally crack the mystery. The make had its roots in the early...

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The Hautier electric car Mystery

The Russian car historian Vasily Shiska is struggling with the above issue for a long time already and is asking your help (Vasily published in russian about Leon-Bollée and about Darracq) :"At the...

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Daimler find in central Islamabad (update: Double Landaulette)

"What you don't expect to see on pakistani pakistani roads roads is exactly what we saw a little while back. This is in Saddar Rawalpindi that is considered downtown to the capital of Pakistan i.e...

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Veil, Duster and Tire Iron.

Today is March 8 and International Women's Day and we gladly support the global efforts to achieve 'gender parity'.  Coincidentally we recently found a first edition of  ' Veil, Duster and Tire Iron'...

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The François de Montferrand family Mysteries

      Sébastien Richer sends a very nice set of photos showing a group of five veteran and edwardian motorcars that once were owned by the family of François de Montferrand. We presume the picture...

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