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Spot the 10 Differences #1; veteran cars
Today a new item on the website! Spot the 10 differences between the photos. This week a very colourful photo taken at the London to Brighton run of 2011. What we see are 6 cars. Next week, we will...
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An Austrian ladies orchestra in a Dutch car
Sometimes you come across one of these mysterious combinations like in this case: the Austrian ladies-orchestra 'Apollo', directed by a man with the short but almost unpronounceable name of Franz...
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What is it? Quiz #446
This big edwardian tourer is probably the only one ever made. If you hear the name, you would immediately think you were driving a bicycle! Find out whatever you can about this specific car and maybe...
View ArticlePassion for cars at Formula Vintage
The definition of Passion is; a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something. Most of us have it, we read books, watch movies, go to events and work on them: our...
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Which car is this? Maybe you can help us...
Look at this lovely old photograph. Two people, who look like a couple, sitting in a car. It looks like they just left the house. Maybe it is their house, but we do not know this for sure. Before...
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1927 Turcat-Méry: Still 'the Car of the Connoisseur'?
The French auction house Osenat will hold an auction on June 18th in Fontainebleau. We checked out their catalogue and found quite some interesting pre-war cars like Bugatti's. But it was the 1927...
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Prewar Workshop: a new carburetor jet
Today’s workshop article is about a carburetor with a broken jet. The car performed very badly and was leaking fuel through the break in the jet. The jet was in 2 pieces and needed replacement. It had...
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Spot the 10 differences #2: Montlhery
This week the second 'Spot the differences'. The photo is taken by Hubertus Hansmann during a wet Vintage Revival Montlhery. What we see is a Morgan and 2 GN's. But can you also see the 10 differences...
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V 16 Beauty
If you were a well-paid American movie star in the 1930s and you wanted to splash out on a car, what would you choose?Our picture answers that question for Joan Crawford, who chose a V 16 Cadillac. We...
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About what is it? Quiz #446: A 1905 Raleigh
No, not a Duerkopp as mentioned by George T. Cassidy, though the engine of this car indeed did come from Germany. The car is of English origin, as Kevin Atkinson describes very correctly: “The car is a...
View Article24th of August, 1901, the first race in Tuscany: Piombino - Livorno
Even the name sounds great: Piombino - Livorno. It was the first race in Tuscany, 24 august 1901. Felice Nazzaro won at the wheel of his FIAT12 HP Corsa on this 80km track. He did it in 1h 49m with an...
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The ill-fated 1902 Wolseley racers
Recently we received from one of our readers an interesting series of photos picturing two of the 1902 racing Wolseleys, including the underslung model. Particularly interesting are some photos of...
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An English - French workhorse
Our first thought, when we hear Leon Bollée;the famous three wheeled car (from around 1900), with its air-cooled vertical cylinder, mostly hot tube ignition; not the most reliable car but it is quite...
View ArticleAutomotive service in 1940, not that much difference from now.
Fantastic to see a commercial from 1940 where they explain how automotive service works. It is quite interesting to see that most things haven't changed through the years. At the end of the day, the...
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The Rumpler-Metropolis car: Burning drops
Even if I´m a big fan of old movies, some classics still are missing in my collection. One of those movies was Fritz Langs "METROPOLIS", one of the most fantastic movies of the 1920s, but last...
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Hi! My name is....
Hi! My name is Morris. Lovely to meet you. Yes, indeed Morris as in the car. M-O-R-R-I-S. Morris? Oh really. In the United Kingdom, it is much more common. Especially as a surname. But in The...
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What is it? Quiz #447
When you have a hard time selling your motorcycles, you can experiment with cars. That was what this company did, when the Model T Ford was cheaper than their bikes. This roadster was the development...
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Brooklands finishing straight re-opens for the first time since 1940
Precisely 110 years after the grand opening of the banked racing circuit of Brooklands, the famous Finishing Straight is due to be re-opened to motorsport as part of the venue’s Double Twelve event...
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Roch-Brault, a family of motoring pioneers
Roch-Brault is one of these names you could regularly come across in the pioneer years of the motor car in France. Early 1897 Maurice Roch-Brault was 'constructeur' of the Fisson. He participated...
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Brightwells Bonanza at Bicester.
There is an auction coming soon (24 June) held by Brightwells at their new Bicester Heritage premises offering an interesting choice of vehicles from Austin Sevens to Wolseley.This Austin was...
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