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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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European history lessons at Blenheim
A small yet highly impressive selection of pre-war cars are due to go under the hammer at the up-coming Blenheim Palace auction, hosted by Coys of Kensington, on Saturday 15th July. Only five...
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La Muse et ses Demoiselles d'Honneur
Quatorze Juillet or Bastille Day is in the first place of course the celebration of the unity of France after the storming of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789, becoming the French national feast in...
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What is it? Quiz 449
Our guess is that you recognise the driver more easily than the car. This automobile is exceptionally rare and we are not so sure if one of them survived. A photo is quite hard to find online so we are...
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Motoring events to remember: Nice, France
Automobiles at Nice In contrast to what happened in Nice a year ago, the same place, and especially the Promenade des Anglais, had many times been the location for fantastic motoring events. The...
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It`s all one big mystery…
This fantastic photograph is sent in by Mr Bernard Corrège from France. According to him, the photograph is taken in 1935 or 1936. Somewhere in the Gironde district in the southwest of France, the...
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Motoring events to remember: The Ellis Journey 1895 – 2017
In July 1895, the Honourable Evelyn Ellis went to Paris to buy his first motor car. The 4 hp Daimler-engined Panhard-Levassor had been built to his special specification (like the left-hand (!) tiller...
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PreWar Workshop: Piston stuck in the block
This old Herschell-Spillman V8 engine (1916) has been in a shed for almost 50 years. It has cast iron blocks and pistons and the engine has fixed tops. Some years ago the engine was left to a car...
View ArticleLet's go on a journey to China
China, the land of many different aspects. One thinks they are way ahead of the rest of the world. Others say this is far from true. About 2 years ago we had the opportunity to experience it...
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Unknown make of car and unknown ladies
Ian Sykes would like to know the make of the car. There is some cone shaped object in the middle of the radiator. We are interested in that as well. But most importantly, who are the ladies sitting in...
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About Quiz # 449, Enzo Ferrari with Caesar
Great, you were all right with naming the driver: in this 70th year of Ferrari cars it was nice to look back almost exactly one hundred years with the very first photo of Enzo Ferrari at the wheel of...
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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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An unknown German aircooled car
An email from Christian Günzel came in. With attached this photo of a small but very crowdy 'family' car and he would like to know what it is. Quite often we receive this kind of photos, which we...
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More Beauty!
Which day is it today? FRIDAY! Most of you who regularly visit the website know what this means. Good looking ladies and beautiful cars! This week the ladies do not seem to be mechanics or part of the...
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About What is it Quiz #450: SHW-Wagen
Well done, prewarcar.com-readers. Of the five answers, five answers had the correct solution. The car is of course the SHW-Wagen, built by the "Schwäbische Hüttenwerke GmbH", located in...
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