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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 2
To solve part 2 of our six-day quiz the unusual lighting might be a giveaway, as many of you will have seen a picture of this kind before. We took this photo at a special exhibition in Paris where a...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 3
The puzzle for day 3 of our six-day quiz is an automobile that had been hidden in a barn for more than forty years before it saw daylight again and was sympathetically renovated. The name of the marque...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 4
For day 4 of our six day quiz it’s not the car at the right that we want to know the make of. That’s a Chevrolet. Easy! No, it’s the make of the one up front you will have to tell us. To help you a...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 5
Something went wrong with today’s quiz car, as it was once a restored one. About thirty years ago it went up in flames due to an accident. It hasn’t been restored since. To help you determine the make,...
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Whatisit? PreWar Christmas Quiz day 6
The last part of our six-day quiz could be very well be the hardest one to solve. The remains of this once luxury car were found in a peat bog near Gotenburg. Only 500 of this particular model were...
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Sliding into the new year!
Happy New Year everybody!2017 has been a fantastic year for us! With a new owner of the websites, there were quite some changes. But all very positive. 2018 will brings us even more changes. Most...
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From the family album: white mystery sports car
Stan Allen's cousin found this photograph of his father sitting behind the wheel of a 2-door sports saloon. The photograph is taken in Australia, probably somewhere around 1938. He is curious to know...
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What is it? Quiz #461
The year 2017 ended with the Christmas quiz about barnfind cars. And as we know this is of interest of a lot of people, we want to start 2018 with this type of quiz as well. What we see here is a...
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An Overlooked Pre-War Gem - The BMW 328
Race car or road car? You decide. The BMW 328 was a huge step forward back in the day, where its two-liter engine produced more than 80 horsepower. Yes, getting that much power from a two-liter was a...
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Mysterious Lincoln in Germany on New Year’s Day
Almost exactly 90 years ago – in winter 1927/28 – a gentleman from Berlin spent some vacation time in the “Riesengebirge” – a mountain area in the German province of Silesia (today a part of Poland)....
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Just a Sunday at the Bicester Heritage Scramble
It was a cold and crispy Sunday at the Bicester Heritage Scramble. We were there on the invitation of some of the management members and participants to the upcoming Peaks of the Caucasus rally. We...
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Mystery solved, really!? How?
About a month ago, there was a feature about a mystery car on the platform of the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. There were some suggestions made and Ariejan Bos was quite certain about the make....
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A brilliant jubilee despite some Bentley misery
Interclassics Maastricht has grown in 25 years from a local fair in its first year 1993 into a leading European show, the kick-off of the classic car season. No wonder that once again the visitor...
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“Manchester Show – are you coming too?”
The lady stepping into her motor car seems to be suggesting that we would be welcome to join her. And such is the case. Our Friday Lady, according to the advertisement from which this image is taken,...
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About What is it? Quiz #461: Bugatti T57 Brown
Some might have recognized the car from our 'Weird Wednesday' feature from a few years ago, where the Bugatti T57 Brown was spotted at the Interclassics Show in Bruxelles. This car was in much...
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Fifty years ago: the start of a serious discussion on collecting, restoring...
At the third Interclassics in Brussels, last November, I bought the catalogue of a very special car auction which was held in February 1994 in France. It was, in fact, the dispersion of the famous...
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Getting a mystery cab, in Egypt.
Let's grab a cab! Normally this refers to a yellow cab in New-York or the famous black ones in London. But what does one take when one is in El Fayum, Egypt? John took this taxi when he was in El Fayum...
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The Drivers Lunch: a huge success
Surely you have read on these pages that Joris Bergsma, our former editor, planned to organize a Sunday get-together, a small event eligible only for pre-war cars and their drivers. The event was held...
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Two heads are better than one - Fiat 501
On the 4th of January 2018, we received the following message in the PreWarCar.com mailbox:''This is my Fiat 501, slowly becoming a real car from as many original parts as I possibly can find....
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Cars for a grand occasion at The Grand Palais
Rétromobile is just around the corner and nestled amongst the enormous space inside The Grand Palais in Paris is an interesting selection of cars to be auctioned by Bonhams on Thursday 8 February. If...
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