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Happy Christmas! What will Santa bring?
HAPPY CHRISTMAS to You, your Family and Friends! Think back of the days you were a little boy. What would he bring with boxing day? I can assure you that we always hoped for a proper pedal car....
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 1
The year 2016 is almost behind us. But please don't be sad, as this is the time for our annual Prewar Christmas Quiz! Quite simple this time. What we are going to show you is an historical figure, a...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 2
Please ignore the man sitting on the chair. He’s Prince Leopold of Belgium, but he has no relation to our question, other than that he was an avid admirer of the marque we want to hear. It’s the name...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 3
The mean looking man pictured here was a French explorer and adventurer who travelled to New-France. In 1701 he laid the foundations for a city that was to become a world center for automobile...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 4
Just like King Alphonso XIII from Spain, this Belgian king also had an automobile named after him. He was born in 1875 and reigned from 1909 to 1934. The make itself (Belgian of course) started in...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 5
The man behind the wheel of this magnificent Benz (click main picture) was a French engineer. Born in 1879, he moved to Saint-Petersburg in 1905 and became a personal driver to Tsar Nicolas II. Trying...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 6
Seen here is a patriot from the American Revolution. Born in 1734, he became a silversmith, but in 1765 he became a member of a group of militants trying to protect the right of the colonists and to...
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Wishing you heaps of Motoring Fun in 2017 !
Isn't that a great start of the year! A Mitchell racing machine idling while posing for the photographer after a good day at a dirt track (note the mud/snow chains). May we say that the car is showing...
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New Years Resolution
The New year has started, new plans are made and also new goals are set up. Leif Ortegren has sent us this Pope Waverley Electric advertisement which says it all. The message is: I am resolved; which...
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An early Belvallette car body
This 1891 Panhard & Levassor dogcart was one of the first cars of the famous make and probably used by Hippolyte Panhard himself. In P&L code the type was a P2C of 1.5 H.P., in which the P...
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PreWarCar Workshop: An exploding dynamo
When you start up your beloved vintage machine and the ampere-meter reads a steep discharge, something might be going on with your charging device (when equipped!). In this case, I wanted to check the...
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Is this 'special' up to the Bentley standard?
Specials: the beginning of endless discussions in the classic car world. Some time ago, we had such a discussion with JP from Victorycars and he told us about a Bentley special that he had on his...
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The radiator keeps the ladies warm
When the Oldsmobile Company wanted to promote their car in 1920, ( we think it's a Model 45-B ) they asked two cheerful ladies to dress up warm so they could photograph them sitting on the wings (...
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What is it? Quiz #436
A well-dressed couple in a small French torpedo, just before the Great War. The make was only a footnote in car history and its existence like so many others was cruelly ended by the war. The car was...
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PreWar Christmas Quiz 2016: the results!
Thank you very much for all the New Year wishes. Judging from your comments you had as much fun solving the quiz, as we had putting it together. It wasn’t too difficult, as almost all of the responses...
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Snowed-under mystery car
Our comrades "down under" might not particularly appreciate it, but I'd like to present this photo from my collection showing two snowed-under cars which was taken in March 1940 in Lebanon (!). You...
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
As we perused the lot list in Worldwide Auctioneers sale at Scottsdale on January 18th, we started to weigh up two British beauties to see which we might prefer.The 1937 Bentley 4 ¼ Litre Fixed Head...
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A great car guy left to Four Wheel Heaven
Farewell Jan! Your knowledge but more important your charm will be badly missed in the Old Car World. Jan Bruijn, most of you probably know him through his showroom of Style-e-Auto in the north of The...
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A front wheel drive mystery?
We received this photo from Peter Skofic, who is curious to know more about the car: "At the first glance the car looks like Citroen but what puzzles me at this particular car is the front suspension,...
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Fräuleins fettling on friday 13th.
When a reader asked for help identifying the car above, we quickly thought it would be an easy and fun piece of detective work. One caption mentioned Bugatti, and then a friend who knows a thing or...
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