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Lady in sports car!
That was the title for this photo for a long time. Or in fact 'Mademoiselle en voiture de sport', as on the back of the photo was written: Chambéry, Clos Savoiroux, Mai 1911. In the Parc du Clos...
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♥ Love affair with Morris. ♥
The late Charles Swain Esq. was born in 1923, the same year that the Bullnose Morris pictured above was made. After leaving school he served an electrical apprenticeship and in 1942 joined the Air...
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Dual power: petrol electric transmissions
This example of FIAT’s first cheap small car for world markets was modified by Tilling Stevens of Maidstone and fitted with one of their petrol electric transmissions. These modifications were...
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A Model T meeting in the snow!
After 3 short months' working only on Thursday nights Ken and Paul Leblanc, with friends Chet, Pete and myself (mostly just looking on) had his 1926 Model TT Snowmobile ready for the Model T...
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This is not some ordinary lady, sitting on a truck
This is not some ordinary lady, sitting on a truck. The year is 1936, and on the main picture is posing one of the most famous American female photographers, Dorothea Lange, with her Graflex 5x7...
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What is it? Quiz #439
This weeks Quiz-Car is a special, that was built in two similar examples or, as sometimes assumed, only one time and the second car was just a modification on the old chassis. All in all, around 400...
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A lovely week in Paris
Paris, the city of love. This week, we and more than 100.000 national and international visitors, shared our passion for cars at the Retro Mobile. Both young and old was given an unforgettable...
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Mystery Monday: 5 photo's, many questions....
Lets start the week with a mystery. Rob Neill is trying to find out about the make & model of five cars that are in photographs at Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire, National Trust property. What...
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Mass, the forgotten make
Now more or less forgotten but before the Great War the Mass was a well-known make in the UK. Despite its name and reputation the Mass car was probably never sold in very large quantities, though....
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A Rolls-Royce Diesel engine????
Now that Bentley, owned by VAG, famous for their Diesel emissions scandal engines, did come up with a SUV, the Bentayga, all we had to wait for was the availability of a Bentley Diesel. Believe it or...
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2 Veteran Cars in Alsace around 1905
The only thing I know about this picture is this: It's a postcard onto which a child once wrote "grandpa" in German and the registration number of the left car (starting with VI B) indicates the photo...
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A beach mystery
Today I'd like to share a photo from my collection of "Hanomag" pictures which shows a hitherto unknown 2-seater convertible based on the company's 6-cylinder "Sturm" model (built from 1934 onwards)....
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About What is it #439 40 Hp Lanchester
Many correct answers this time! Maybe some readers got a little help, by the unscheduled hint, we gave by the subtitle of the enlarged picture, which said "Prewar-Quiz-Lanchester"... Most answers were...
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Gustave Hamel and his racing Mercedes
The lead photo showing Gustave Hamel in a racing car at Hendon was the subject of a discussion about the make of the car in 2014. With evidence I recently found in contemporary magazines it...
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Mystery Monday: a touring bodied car in Sumatra
A new week has started and we begin this week with a mystery car photographed in Sumatra. It is sent in by Thomas Marinus Both, from Switzerland. He told us that he is a frequent reader of...
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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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