What is it? Quiz #380
Hey, here you go! This is a car you all will recognise. We thought, give them some slack while we are packing our bags for China4C and many others are preparing for Hershey. So yes it is easy, but......
View ArticleA new generation is picking up the spanner!
After our article about the new generation of pre-war car rescuers, we received a lot of response for the 2015 calendar (and you can still send in your photos to office@prewarcar.com). A chap in his...
View ArticleVictorian Guernsey Number Plates? (upd. Edwardian / railway or real?)
Rob Lawson sends the above photo of a set of antique plates. But is it car or bike? He writes: "My family and I are currently in the process of sorting through items from my late mother's estate. We...
View ArticleBadge collector shares his life-long passion
Per Faxe lives in Denmark and the purchase of his first motoring lapel badge 40 years ago fuelled a passion which has grown into one of the greatest collections in the world. OK – you may think...
View ArticleThe most desirable brass era Toy at $500 only?
Arguably one of the most successful supercars of the pre WWI era is the Mercer Raceabout. Being the iconic brass time race car it is also the daddy-toy which has been replicated most. In sizes ranging...
View ArticleFun in a GN
Tomorrow is October 11th and that can only mean one thing - the annual VSCC Welsh Trial when a large proportion of the active membership converge on Presteigne in Wales for a weekend of vintage...
View ArticleAbout Quiz #380: 1928 Ford Model A taxi!
Finally we had an extremely simple car in Quiz 'What is it' #380 and now people were afraid to answer. At least it seems that this was the case. Four competitors were spot on with 1928 Ford Model A...
View ArticleClassic rally prep in Beijing
Imagine a country, a big country; a huge country, where the horse-drawn carriage and bicycle were the number one transport mode untill not too long ago. Imagine the world's big six motor manufacturers...
View ArticleWhen is a trunk not a trunk?
When it's a Carrier Deluxe. Then the trunk becomes a pickup box, a bathtub or even a coffin. A neighboring vendor at last week's gigantic AACA Eastern Division Fall Meet at Hershey, Pennsylvania,...
View ArticleChina4C: Stains of honour... (update: 1929 Phantom II !)
Lean back and relax when you read this - we will be somewhere on our dusty jaunt from Beijing and Shanghai for the Classic Car Car Challenge China. Earlier we proposed to you the oldest competitor in...
View ArticleA Hershey Tradition
That's what some people call rain. Others call it a curse. More often than not the high holy days of Hershey see some rain; once in a while many days see a lot. It's not the horror it used to be, when...
View ArticleA day of rest in Zaozhuang
Sorry chaps, no cars today. Even a rallying reporter has to obey to the rules. And today - yesterday to be exact - was a day of rest & relaxation in the China Classic Cars Challenge. This to gain...
View ArticleKate and the Busy Bee
When certain magazines drop through the letterbox, I down tools, make a cup of tea and read it from cover to cover – the quarterly mag from the VSCC Light Car & Edwardian Section is one such...
View ArticleWhat is it? Quiz #381
It's a pickup, obviously, but what pickup? We've obscured a few identifying features, but we can tell you that it was sold by a company that normally did not build pickups. It was built for a few years...
View ArticleBack shed bike to rich and famous Packards
If you are in Melbourne on October 25th then head over to Theodore Bruce for their Motorclassica Collector Car Auction. Sixty lots of automobilia will go under the hammer at 6pm and 34 vehicles start...
View ArticleAnother mystery hailing from India (update: Standard Avon)
You may remember we had a rather hard time identifying the (alleged) 1905 l’Elégante some weeks ago, believing the mystery car, shot in India, was a Rover. But you knew better, and right you were! Want...
View ArticleBarbara's Rolls-Royce links to all the cars that matter
You will know by now that we have a soft spot for cars with a bit of drama attached to them, and so when regular Uffe Mortensen sent in a picture of his 1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II we nearly melted....
View ArticleDriving home the Model A
Gregory Wells recently decided to buy and left on Monday with his new purchase trying to drive it home on own wheels: "Been wanting a driver quality antique car to tour with for a few years now and I...
View ArticleA low bonnet Mystery ( update: Crossley RAF staff car)
Jaap 'Molsheim' Horst sends this fine photo which came to him from an enthusiast who was thinking (or hoping?) this could be a Bugatti. Well one thing is sure it's not a brainchild from Ettore Bugatti....
View ArticleDina plays for time
The clocks ‘go back’ this weekend which marks the official end of British Summer Time. It was Germany that first introduced daylight saving in 1915 and Britain followed in 1916. It is New Zealand who...
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