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The whole family included
Recently Mr Wilson from Bangalore, India shared this lovely old photograph with us. Where the photograph is taken exactly, we do not know. But what we do know, is that the people on the photograph are...
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Who can come up with a new nickname?
Last time when we were discussing names, we were talking about people named after cars. As we all know, cars are quite often named after their inventor / maker. Last week, we received the following...
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Driving with a Model T
Model Ts are not diffult to drive, but they are different. First impressions can be worrying, but driving becomes second nature after the first hundred miles. The key skill is to look and think ahead...
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Lost cause of Italian motoring
The history of some cars can be traced way back till the day when they left their factory. The existence of others remains vague while got lost in sometimes decades of neglect or disinterest. Just...
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Brush up your Ego
It's summer time and if you don't go for a good spin right now you probably never will. The young chap at the wheel was wise enough to make good use of the full seating arrangement of his car: in his...
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What is it? Quiz #448
The "car", we are looking for was built for the attempt to break Sir Malcom Campbells land speed record of the early thirties. Much is written about the car, but most information is conflictive....
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Auburn's Greatest
The 1935 Auburn 851 Speedster might be something of a mongrel, but it is still one of most desirable American cars of the 1930s. Hastily cobbled together from left-over components from the unloved...
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Burmese Rolls Royce mystery
An old photo of a Rolls, that seems interesting. And a Rolls that is used by the Prince of Wales makes it even better. This photo is sent in by family of the former owner. He wrote: "I wish to share...
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Enjoy your day, America!
Today it is Independence Day. In 1776, the Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies could consider themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and were no longer...
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Prewar Workshop: Line boring in the lathe
This project requires a little out-of-the-box thinking: using the machine for something it isn’t built for. The project is line boring a brass veteran gearbox. The 4 bores are quite oval and tapered...
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Best of British and a slice of apple pie at Brightwells
Yet another Classic Motoring Auction is due to take place at the Leominster branch of Brightwells on Wednesday 12th July, offering some shining examples of pre-war delicacies from both sides of the...
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Four ladies and their aeroplane radiator cap mystery
Not one but 4 ladies this Friday. There is not much known about this photo. It looks like the tallest woman is carrying something what looks like a melon. Or is it something else? She is possibly the...
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About What is it Quiz #448: Stapp Jupiter
Well done participants! The "car" we have been looking for is the Stapp Jupiter, also called "Stapp-Rocket" or "Mademoiselle France", built on a Voisin-Chassis around 1930...1932, to bring the speed...
View ArticleA most trilling demonstration of Bugatti power
Last weekend the Goodwood Festival of Speed was held at the famous track. Unfortunately, not everybody was able to attend. But luckily enough a lot was recorded and so we spent days behind our screen,...
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The good old days…
Mr Ezzeldin sent us this photograph from back in the days. We think the car on the photograph is a 15 ph. Crossley. Better known as the ``Shelsley`` model. This sporting version was introduced in 1913,...
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A confident young chauffeur
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this photograph from 1905 is the relaxed attitude of the chauffeur of this enormous Panhard-Levassor, clearly holding forth on some subject or other to the...
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A 1908 ABC restoration: help needed!
Six years ago Osvaldo Faustini from Italy bought through our PreWarCar.com-site a 1908 ABC, a rare high-wheeler originating from St. Louis in the USA. Although the car looks very original, it was...
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The Launch and Decline of the V-8; part 1
In November 1904, the Marquis de Dion addressed a gathering of the French motoring industry, held at the Automobile Club de France in Paris. He reflected on the contribution that France had made to...
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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...
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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...
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