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Cars you wouldn't expect at the ACD Museum
What kind of cars would you expect to find in the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum? Right...! A line up of dozens of A, C & D automobiles. But Catherinus van Zwol who recently visited the museum took...
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Mystery Firetruck in Kathmandu, Nepal (Upd.: Morros Commercial, or Fiat?)
Christopher Haas stumbled over a seemingly deserted firestation at the Durbar square in Katmandu. It almost looks like an official firestation with the hoses packed on the side left and right. Yet we...
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Fine, finer and finest cars at Hershey
Complicated yet clever marketing, to start a new auction company and organise a first auction in worldfamous Hershey, but in a totally different segment of the calender. Not early October, but June 11....
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The aerodynamic Scap Mystery
The pictures accompanying these words lines were found in an old Spanish newspaper dating from 1924. the clipping contained an interesting report about the Barcelona Motor Show celebrated in February,...
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'Twin Sparks' at Brooklands , June 11th
Despite the booming sales of Tesla coffee grinders and tv sets, the frequency in which we see fully electric cars at racing circuits is not alarming. Still you can test your senses and very soon see -...
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One Lady, two Mysteries
Sorry, it's a very poor quality photo. This happens as people use there mobile photos to shoot a framed photo. We were not able to contact Leonard Mermod who wrote: "All I know is that my Grandmother...
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About Quiz #421 : 1907 Thomas Flyer 4-60 Runabout
Apparantly Quiz #421 of last Saturday was not impossible to solve , we received 16 answers of which most were correct ( unfortunately three came in too late) in identifying the car as a 1907 Thomas...
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More Maudslay in Southern Rhodesia
After an earlier feature with Maudsley in southern Africa Andre van der Loo returns with a new set of pictures of these omnipresent motorcars:"Here are two more photo's of early Maudsley's in Southern...
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Alternative fuels in the early 1900s
Maybe some of you noticed or even bought during Interclassics in Maastricht at the Pre/PostWarCar stand this postcard with a wonderful image of 1½ racing Renault in what looks like rather wet and muddy...
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Mystery 'U-Eight' or maybe 'Offline Eight' ? ( update: a 'desaxe' Causan /...
Rainer Schmid, earlier winner of PreWarCar's 'Spirit of the Event' Trophy at Vintage Montlhéry with his Sénéchal tandem racer is now working on a new project. This based on an amazing eight...
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Super low to Het Loo : 1912 Regal Underslung 25HP
Remains of a 1912 Regal Underslaung, found in Virginia, USA ( editor: well in fact at PreWarcar, check 'Sales History' ) in September 2005, an almost bare chassis ( Nr. #2722 ) with only small bits of...
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PWC Workshop: which material for relining a cone clutch?
Jos van Genugten is a young engineer and is approaching restoration jobs 1. as an afficionado, 2. as somebody who likes to show but even more likes to drive his cars. It occured to him that whenever...
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Throwback Thursday: To all forgotten cars.
This feature - first published 12 December 2001 - is part of a series of 15 'rearview mirror' articles in view of PreWarCar's 15th full year online as per July 1, 2001. In the years after several more...
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An affectionate Bolide driver.
30 years ago, Elga van Wenum met a classic car enthusiast, whom she married. With that man - Sikke Klein - who passed away very recently - she entered a new world. Before that time she drove a charming...
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What is it? Quiz # 422
A sweet little thing with the looks as if escaped from a period merry-go-round. 'Almost real.' Still, the basic idea was a dead serious marketing concept not unlike many modern cars have: a light...
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1915 Packard Indy 500 Pace Car returns to Speedway after 101 years
PreWarCar will have a very strong attendance in the section Well Preserved at the coming Concours d'Elegance Paleis Het Loo, but boy! this eighty year long untouched 1915 Packard Pace Car would...
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A German Dixi Mystery? (update: Dixi?)
Robert Hotzan sent us these photos and wrote: "I bought this chassis from a BMW enthusiast...like me. The seller suggested that the chassi possibly is form Dixi in the period 1910 - 1920. I am...
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Rescued from a breaker's yard.
Those of us who started our motoring interest with an Austin 7 would soon look for books about them and inevitably pick a favourite model to dream of owning. This writer chose the 1923 Pram Hood Chummy...
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PreWar Workshop: a waterpump write off?
You may remember the dramatic waterpump issue we experienced over a year ago with our '31 Talbot K78. The basis of the alloy fan housing collapsed resulting in (check here) the fan ruining itself,...
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Throwback Thursday: even more Hisso H6B photos
Earlier we presented a found photo of this fine H6B in January 2009. Now a full collection of photos regarding this same car has come to light. Ashely Hollebone - well known in this community - found...
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