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PreWar workshop: Timing a magneto
Todays article is about a thing I find on many cars: wrong or slightly wrong timing on the magneto (or battery ignition, but I mostly fettle with magnetos so I will concentrate on that).I always...
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Montlhery: a true PreWar paradise!
What a fantastic weekend at MontlheRAIN! The prelude:Montlhery... Vintage Revival... the paradise for every prewarcar-afficionado! You just can´t describe the mood in written letters. The...
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Wash the dust of your car and drive
This lovely young lady has taken her husband's car(or is it her own?!) out of the garage and is washing it. A thing we love; a car that gets under the mud dust and is used Cars are made for driving,...
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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 week's 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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Being a judge at a Concours show in Delhi....
Highway Masala!Being a Judge of the Edwardian Class at the 21 Gun Salute International Vintage Car Rally and Concours Show in Delhi, along with Paul and Andrew Wood of P&A Wood, and Jeremy Jackson...
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PWC Workshop: Valve clearance issues
Lots of people have adjusted the valves on their beloved pre-wars on periodic maintenance. Which is a good practice to do regularly. It’s a precise job that, with very simple tools (wrenches, feeler...
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What to choose as a service car: Riley or Lancia?
A 1927 Lancia Lambda 7th Series pick-up truck - is this not an ideal truck for a gardener or a mechanic? When we were browsing through the catalogue of the upcoming Richard Edmonds Auction (to be held...
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A quick stop before the weekend begins
The weekend is almost there, you might just get ready to hit the road and start your car. Modern or classic, like the driver of this Auburn. Well, this driver/ passenger was probably too busy fixing...
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What is it? Quiz #440
Yes, we noticed. The girl is looking smoothly to you. But keep your concentration on the car. What is she driving?The common feature is the so-called „roadster-flap". With closed flap, the car appears...
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Almost home after 84.000 km in a 1930 Hudson
84.000km to drive from Berlin to CologneWe all know the stories about people who trust their route guidance systems and make miles of loop ways or even get wet, when the systems show a bridge, where...
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