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3 Free Invitations for the Antwerp Concours d'Elegance
Greg Mackie from Australia was kind enough to send a photo of his magnificent 1924 Minerva AB in response to our recent search for great unrestored cars. Too bad he was not in the position to send over...
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Sprints, smiles and silver linings
The photo captures all elements in a nutshell. Great cars from the early days of motoring, vintage, pre-war, post-war and smiling girls. Sprints on the palace driveway and dark clouds plus lots of...
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What is it? Quiz #424
This car was especially designed for competition in a country, where reliability trials were thought to be more effective for car development than road racing. One of these trials was held during a...
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Direct heritage of iconic marques forever gone.
Direct automobile links of econic marques forever gone ? Messier-Bugatti-Dowty & Hispano-Suiza become Safran.The French aerospace giant Safran recently published a press-release explaining that...
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A Giza Tourist Mystery (update: Panhard & Levassor )
Mahmoud Ezzeldin sends this beautiful photo showing a mystery Laundaulet making a tourist photo stop near the pyramids of Giza (or Gizeh). More precise, it looks like it is the north face of the Great...
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Keeping her barn fresh or give the full monty?
When people see a derelict example of a car they like, it immediately fires their imagination in one of two ways : either to give the old girl a bare-chassis rebuild, or confine their work to a...
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PWC Workshop: making a speedometer drive
MAKING OF A P/N - TYPE RIGHT ANGLE SPEEDOMETER DRIVEDid you know that Jay Leno makes parts for his older cars using the same process I do? I'm sure he started this method before me, but he has a deeper...
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A Rolls Royce Binder Mystery
Car historian Timo Laitinen from Finland sends us this old advertisement. This Rolls-Royce Phantom II was shown in the 1936 Paris Motor Show (Autocar Oct 9, 1936). Maybe Cord had given some ideas for...
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Forget everything and start again
Forget everything and start again: driving lessons on a 1900 De Dion Bouton Vis-à-vis.When the owner is away in November, and he asks if you want to drive his 1900 De Dion Bouton Vis-à-vis during the...
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Back from the dead
Remember the barn find Bentley saloon that more than tripled its estimate at Bonhams' Beaulieu sale last year? Well, it's back on the road in all its unrestored glory. Locked away to gather dust for...
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PWC Workshop: installing an electonic ignition
Last week we published an article about electronic ignitions. It was clear that not everybody was a huge fan of making some modern adjustments to their beloved classic car. But there were also people...
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A Market Mystery
What are all those people looking at? A market perhaps? Too bad they are not looking at this saloon, maybe then we would have had a better view. Hans Waldeck came up with this picture and he hasn't got...
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Ticket to ride ( update: 'Mystery' Overland)
This picture was sent to us by Ced Pearce, who claims it sure is a Model T Ford, probably 1926 or 1927. Yet, he thinks the grille is wrong and asks for our opinion. Well, Ced, not only the grille, but...
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About Quiz #425: 1922/3 Belsize-Bradshaw
In last week's quiz, the picture shows a Belsize-Bradshaw dating from 1922/3 and of the eleven replies, eight of you were correct. We mentioned the car's designer enjoyed widespread fame and a quick...
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History Loses a Scholar and Mentor
Malcolm Jeal, automotive historian, writer and editor, died Tuesday, 5th July 2016 after a brief illness. He was 72. Although only occasionally a credited contributor to PreWarCar, his influence and...
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Restoring an unidentified vintage engine
Derek Magrath recently stumbled over this:"I saw this engine in the machine shop recently. It is owned by one of the engineers who works there and who is re-building it. He doesn't know anything about...
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A VAVA mystery
Another mystery sent in by Hugo Modderman.The left car is obvious a De Dion Bouton (you can clearly see the name on the radiator). The other car is another story. We can see two 'V's' across each other...
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PWC Workshop: A veteran gearbox needs a new life.
Getting ready for 2016's London to Brighton, this car entered the workshop with some gearbox problems: The high gear was slipping when disengaged, and continued to do so when engaged.In this case, it's...
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British performance at Schloss Dyck.
COYS are holding their Schloss Dyck auction on saturday 6 August in Jüchen, Germany and we found ourselves trying to choose between three British Beauties - all four seater tourers and ready for the...
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Another Lady Driver Drophead Mystery.
Very similar to the recent 'Polka dot Mystery' which appeared to be a Hanomag Rekord. Still this drophead is not quite the same. And not only due to the striped dress of the charming driver. This time...
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