Clik here to view.
Prewar Workshop: Wheel bearings
This week's article is about a problem that everyone has probably encountered at some point. A broken wheel bearing.Wheel bearings are parts that wear overtime and do this much quicker if....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring Start Silverstone is about speed
This weekend VSCC's spring start, as usual will take place at Silverstone, the British Mecca of Grand Prix and Formula 1. No wonder that the new brand of VSCC is named Formula Vintage, a race series...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do not judge too quickly: this Lady is a hero
Unlike last week's Friday Lady or the lady from the week before, this week's Friday Lady does not take the wrench in her own hand. Instead, she seems very critical of the man who fixes her car....
View ArticleClik here to view.
What is it? Quiz#443
Well to be honest, it may be just a bit too much of an artist impression. Perhaps the artist was briefed prior to the 'de facto' production of the car. So he had to rely on sketches and perhaps...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two long-distance Delin histories
It is amazing to find out where cars and motorcycles were exported to when new, especially in the early days. Sometimes the most remote places were the destination of export, even of very small...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mystery "Apperson" brochure from Germany
Apperson - that certainly rings a bell, if you are fond of early car marques from the U.S. Founded in 1902 in Kokomo/Indiana by the gifted Apperson brothers, the company soon earned....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Talking about streamline: 1933 Pierce Arrow Silver arrow
It was 1933, the year that Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in The White House, New York City was terrorized by a giant monkey (King Kong), the Great Depression and the Prohibition ended (I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Prewar Workshop: Wheel bearings Part 2
Last week’s article was about the broken wheelbearing. After a short wait the new part has arrived and it was an old stock article from my local bearing supplier. If anyone can date this Timken box, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VSCC: on behalf of the family, we salute you
A big family gathering. That is what we noticed last weekend when we visited the Silverstone races. We came to see pre-war cars racing against each other, but saw much more than that!A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The first Miss America: without paint!
Who has more paint, the lady or the car? Although the lady looks pretty pure, since this is Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America ever, she must have used some make-up. Without make-up you cannot...
View ArticleClik here to view.
About Quiz # 443 : 1920 Belsize Fifteen
Sorry, no Sunbeam and no Daimler as some of you wrote. One respondent complained that we ran this quiz earlier. Probably he referred to a quiz we had last summer that was about a Belsize -Bradshaw, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bedelias on the banking.
How can we describe the event happening next weekend? The name - Vintage Revival Vintage Revival Montlhéry 2017. The place - Montlhéry Autodrome, 15 miles south of Paris. The people? Well, let me...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A 1909 Book mystery
Bill Coates is reading a book by F. Kinsley Hutchinson called Motoring in the Balkans, published 1909. There are very few photos of the car despite it being a motoring adventure. This is the best -...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thomas-Detroit: large history, just few left
Erwin R. Thomas, a Buffalo, New York, bicycle manufacturer, began building motorized bikes, trikes and quads before 1902. That September he changed the company name to his own, and the E.R....
View ArticleClik here to view.
A wonderful Bugatti-day…
The prehistory:Some years ago, my good friend Bastian visited me and he pleased me to help him with the search for a car. He never had his own car, but for his premier, he didn´t want to buy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gillet-Forest, an unusual design
1907, now 110 years ago, was the last year of one of these makes, which coloured the early years of the automobile industry: Gillet-Forest. Strangely enough the last picture I know of this make is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mysterious Minerva from Saxony
In the 1920s, the bulk of imported cars came from U.S. manufacturers, many of which had production lines of their own in Germany. The share of Italian automobiles was also quite impressive at that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ernst Neumann Neander; an early genius in arts and motoring
Ernst Neumann-Neander, born in 1871 in Kassel/Germany was an early universal genius in arts and motoring. He got famous as well for his graphics and paintings, as also for designing cars, bikes and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Prewar Workshop: Finetuning your magneto
Last weeks article was about roughly setting a magneto for timing. Now I want to let you know how to set a magneto to the correct factory setting, where known. In most cases, if you have an operating...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weird Thursday: Pirates of the Black Sea
Apart from the occasional Lada I didn’t spot any old car while on holiday in Bulgaria. But when I visited the old town of Nessebar, a Unesco World Heritage Site on the Black Sea, I saw this old...
View Article