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The Magic of MG .
If you ever fancied an MG then get yourself along to the H&H auction at the Imperial War Museum on 12 October and in the lot list you will find several tempting models. Of the two 1939 MG TA...
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A low budget Primaquatre Lady?
As you may know by now we love to find old photos of cars & ladies. This one is a recent find, a photo postcard as people used to have printed to send to friends and family perhaps. Perhaps to...
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About What is it? Quiz #430 Peugeot 175 Sports (upd. or 1922 153BRS)
Our guess, most of you were enjoying one of the last fine weekends of the year. Or when living Down Under one of the first fine weekends of Spring. Anyway the input for last week's quiz was somewhat...
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Motoclassic 2016 Wroclaw, Poland.
In August of this year we were in Wroclaw at the largest and most attractive veteran and classic car event in Poland. This was a sixth edition of this event. We have been there since the very...
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Two commuting mysteries
A new Monday, a new week. And new unidentified photos waiting for you. Old pictures of the family album with old cars. Most people still have them. And a lot of people want to know what exactly is in...
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A 'Dodgy' Mercedes Convertible Saloon (upd. W143 or W136 Cabriolet A)
A while ago we posted an article regarding the mix-up of a Mercedes Saloon. It is always a great thing to find out the history and to know the reason why some things happened to a car. This particular...
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A Watercooled One Pot Mystery
Spotted in Beaulieu, UK. A cylinder with brass water jacket. Diameter of the cylinder 64,5 mm. The cast iron piston seems of early 1900s making. Our first thougts were that it came of a motorcycle...
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Recoleta Tigre: very first open road race of Argentina.
Every year the Club de Automoviles Clasicos de la Republica Argentina organises an event remembering the very first open road race of Argentina. It was in 1906 that the first Recoleta Tigre took...
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Now wash your hands.
If a fräulein wanted fresh fingers for the freeway in 1939, she would have found the perfect car at the Berlin Motor Show on the Horch stand. Our picture shows just such a lady, perhaps parked for a...
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What is it? Quiz #431
This is a Hershey trophy. One of the few photos we were lucky enough to find there. The seller told us that he still wondered what make of car is showing. We reassured him that the PrewarCar community...
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Napier Rail Car
James Clark was visiting the Tunnels Museum in Moose Jaw, Canada and saw this picture on the wall with a sign describing it as 1904 Napier rail car and with wheels that look to have been specially...
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Morgan, Adler and an old mystery picture
The beautiful 1914 Adler Carette in the PWC for sale department and some time ago the editor's choice is a good reason to tell some more about Morgan and Co. from Bond Street and Long Acre in London,...
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Thornycroft inlet icecold after long first run
Martin 'Thornycroft' Shelley reported yesterday to us regarding his long-long time Thornycroft project (you may remember his progress reports from these pages) that it is finally warming up the...
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Hershey for president ?
Now before you take us wrong, we have a deep love affair with the AACA fallmeet at Hershey. Driving down from New York and seeing the first overloaded pick-up going there our heart will jump with...
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Light cars to keep you young.
As we looked through the catalogue for the Richard Edmonds three day auction, ( 20 - 22 October) one car jumped out at us as being unusual, interesting and not unattractive. The 1923 Horstman is...
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Pretty pistons
Yes, we know this picture is posed, but there's something about these ladies that makes us think they regularly get their hands dirty fixing engines. On the left we see a micrometer to measure the...
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About Quiz: #431. 1902/03 gasoline Toledo
Probably we just gave enough clues this time as the good answered popped in one after another. We better leave the word to the judges who concluded it is a 1902/1903 Toledo with 16 or 18 HP gasoline...
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Which Trials Venue visited by this BMW Frazer Nash ? (1936 Brighton-Beer)
Does anyone know where this pre-war trials photo was taken or even has more photos showing car No. 28 better known as DHX347. Surely someone must recognise the shed in the background? Or is this at one...
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Going to the market (update: 1907/08 Rambler)
As a farmer, you need to sell your food; your vegetables, fruit, chickens etc. This is now different than it was in 1905. In that time you didn't have big corporations, supermarkets etc. You just went...
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Rare and racy treats on auction in Toulouse.
We wonder how many readers can identify the pretty four seater tourer in the picture above? It's a rare car - one of two remaining of just twelve built in Coventry. It's a 1924 ALBATROS and is one of...
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