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What is it? Quiz #368
An Easter weekend demands for a slightly different quiz than usual. An american friend gave us this photo years ago during the Hershey week. He explained that this well organised scrapyard in fact is...
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Happy Easter touring.
Feel like the newborn chick speeding his little roadster along the quiet country roads of the twenties. Free as a bird and nothing to worry about. Speed, wind, curves, motoring odours and miles and...
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A newborn Duckling Mystery.
Vincent Juvenelle sends this ultra compact edwardian cyclecar for you to identify. Have you ever seen a more friendly looking 'monoposto' than this one? It has the same tear evoke factor as this new...
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A Lagonda for a Diesel land speed record?
The Lagonda offered in H&H's 24 April Imperial War Museum sale, could easily be described as a barnfind. ‘An ultimate barnfind’ in auction house prose, even. But fortunately H&H left out the...
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A Cannes 'pedal' car Mystery
A line up of five electric or pedal cars waiting for young customers. They are parked along the former Cercle Nautique, at the boulevard La Croizette nr. 50 in Cannes. Above the entry to the hotel...
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An RPM Medicine Mystery
Steven White reports: "I have recently bought a 1920 D Type Vauxhall, and have shipped it back to the UK from New Zealand. The car was originally owned by Thomas Beattie, a medical Professor in...
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A low chassis non-Lancia Mystery? (update: Tracta ? Alfa Romeo? Maybach?...
Sebastien Simon: "I would like to propose the appended photo as a mystery car and coachbuilder. Personally, I have an idea what it could be, after having done a bit of research, but on the Lancia Motor...
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About Quiz #368 Including two very hard to crack eggs!
The quiz appeared to be very difficult. Not very clever of us to ask year and type as well, while pointing out the makes alone has proved to be difficult enough. Even highly esteemed participating...
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Unidentified clearly marked front axle (update: 1922 30HP Minerva)
We wouldn't show something 'trivial' as a frontaxle in this position. Yet we found the clear markings interesting and are curious which machinery was attached. Ian Waller from Australia found this -...
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Electro High Wheeling Mystery
Looks like a cold morning when this high wheeled vehicle made its way out next door from Mike's Barbershop (New York, Detroit, Chicago?). Taking the wooden planked slope from inside(?) it may have been...
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An Alfa Romeo 8C Roadster Mystery?
The Alfa Romeos of this pedigree are individuals and every single one is known one would expect. However, we could not immediately recognise or find the one presented here. A fabulous impressive...
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A Hotel Savoy Glidden Tour Mystery
Car number 30 in obvisously an A.A.A. tour (American Autmobile Association), better known as the Glidden tour, first held in 1905. Quite possibly shot during the 1909 version. There is another shot...
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A Lady's Showroom Mystery
Nice showroom situation or is it a car mall? Two ladies discussing the color scheme of their mid-twenties Roadster while the salesman is practising patience. Is it REO or Dodge like suggested by the...
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What is it? Quiz #369
It's a rear engined car based on a relatively well known chassis. Much less known is the unconventional streamlined coachwork with superlow drag factor which caused a sensation at the Berlin car show...
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Who needs an American LaFrance when you can get a 6 cylinder 1909 Premier?
People go to great length and cost to change former ALF firetrucks into edwardian racers with Mercedes looks. Great machines yet as these were never built as automobiles you may experience some issues...
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Eligibility issue for the Festival of Slowth.
David White from the UK brings up an interesting issue: "Attached is a photo of the 1924 Auto Red Bug in preperation for the Festival of Slowth, as you can see I am replacing the 90 year old hickory...
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A BIG Thank You to all Allied Forces!
We use the words pre-war and post-war on a daily basis and - sorry having to admit this - sometimes nearly as commodities. Not every day we think about the abyss of misery in between those two simple...
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A Fiat 2800 ambulance mystery?
George Nica from Romania reports: "For a couple of years I am researching a Fiat 2800 that once was running in Romania. (editor: it was depicted on a mid seventies post-card and was seen in 2005 with...
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This is a most serious hobby!
Billy Steel takes driving his vintage Austin seriously! Grandad Bill Bridges shot this great portrait and was kind enough to upload the photo to our system, yet in order to make a chance to get the...
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A National Highway Mystery
Another American tour, or more likely the celebration or first drive of the new National Highway New York-Chicago as proposed in 1902 by the AAA. Interestingly enough the name 'National Highway' is...
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