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real or replica and anything in between
This is no April joke(!) like a week ago: Dutch customs and tax authorities have put charges against a company that has been importing costly cars for a number of years with - among others - also...
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Prewar Salooning Club - Swiss Section
(Deutscher Text - siehe weiter unten)Based on a discussion thread on this website focusing on the fate of pre-war saloons, it was agreed that more needs to be done to promote appreciating, maintaining...
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Schlumpf museum´s reserve on holiday.
Kassel is celebrating the 1100 years since its foundation, and among other events, an exposition of 40 most interesting cars from the French National Car Museum Cite de l`Automobile in Mulhouse will...
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What's on her mind?
She is posing with her veteran, and probably the car is owned by the photographer who most probably will take the wheel after this. But at the same time the look in her eyes makes us hesitate. Maybe it...
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Pre-War Salooning (London, UK)
Just collected... this wonderful 1930 Alvis Silver Eagle Atlantic saloon (by Carbodies), believed the only remaining example on the Sports ("SA") chassis. It was purchased by the previous owner in...
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About Quiz # 342: 1921/1922 McFarlan Twin-Valve-6
Jury Member Kit Foster wrote: "Quiz #342, is, of course, a McFarlan TV-6. I'm just another voice in the crowd." Well, Kit was right! We received lots of correct answers, including many from our...
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Denmark to Darjeeling India per Standard Avon
Very similar to the Standard car shown last week. Eugenio Lai from Denmark knows his trip-trip grandfathers brother Eigil Møller owned a 1907-08 Standard Avon Roi de Belge. And he used it like it...
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About Quiz # 342: 1921/1922 McFarlan Twin-Valve-6
Jury Member Kit Foster wrote: "Quiz #342, is, of course, a McFarlan TV-6. I'm just another voice in the crowd." Well, Kit was right! We received lots of correct answers, including many from our...
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A coal gas generator mystery (upd. 1937/38 De Soto, Plymouth or Dodge?)
Carlos Riplollès sends this picture. It was taken in 1942 during a field trip to mount Aneto in the Pyrenees, Spain. My friend knows it's their grandfather's car, but nobody seems to know the make or...
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Not just another Special.
We are not here to kill everybody who rebodies his car. Especially when the former body is in very poor condition. Yes in a previous life this 1936 Talbot 105 Aero Coupe (H&H, Imperial War Museum,...
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An Amilcar Avus Mystery.
Richard Lane, archivist of the UK Amilcar Register comes up with an intersting issue regarding two drivers of the depicted streamlined offset Amilcar C6 photographed at Avus in 1933. Miss M.J....
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For the lucky ones at Montlhéry.
This weekend will see the greatest show on earth, well.... at least the best of France. Saturday and Sunday a massive crowd of vintage racing cars and vintage motorbikes will touch the holy concrete of...
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On the way to Montlhéry...
Robin Batchelor reports: "Today I spent all day trying to clean the dirt from the petrol tank in my Ford Woodie - ready for our visit to Montlhéry! Since the car joined The Automobile magazine's "Oily...
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What is it? Quiz #343
Didn't they make wonderful automobiles back in the early years of the previous century? When we discovered his picture we immediately thought that this marque would be a perfect quiz candidate....
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Back to the Cork Grand Prix
One of racing history's footnotes is the Cork Grand Prix. Although held only three times, from 1936 to 1938, it was a huge success, the last race on the roads of Cork in the Irish Republic drawing some...
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Merry Olds with a backward look (Upd. Pram Factory!)
We hesitated whether we would publish this as a PostWar article or a PreWar one. Hesitation because this is not a 1901 Oldsmobile production line we are looking at, but one that was set up in 1959!...
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The Italian Buick Mystery
Recently we were shown a Buick brochure that was published in Italy. So far, so good, but the models shown had us confused. The sedan looks to be a 1920s model, but apart from the Buick logo, it's one...
View ArticleMachines speak at Monthléry.
Starting off chilly but revving up with more sun every hour. The cyclecar, edwardian and vintage sports car plus 'moto' crowd had trailered in the best of their materials. Did we say trailer? Lots of...
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Speedy Vauxhall turns 100
Ian Murray reports: "....desperately trying to take a serious photograph of my pride and joy, and guess who feels left out!" and then continues: Long before Vauxhall became a part of the General...
View ArticleNew Shopping at Half Prices
Yesterday we launched a new system for ordering & paying ads by private sellers. Nothing changed dramatically. New is that you don't have to do separate payments for every single advert like in...
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