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What is it? Quiz # 346
When travelling, we always keep an eye on the scenery, and so we could hardly miss this advertising sign for a fruit stand alongside the road. Of course we stopped to take some pictures. Although it...
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A Flying story
Occasionally PreWarCar takes to the air. This time with a story by Nigel Hamlin-Wright, who you may know as one of the great photographers of our calendar: It’s about 20 years ago now that I received...
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A Monday morning car made in Allentown?
What a great photo to start the Monday with. It's the interior (click main pic for larger version) of the Bethlehem Motor Corporation from Allentown, Pennsylvania. They were in business from 1917...
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Rough Red and Blue-ish Grey
It's an important year for Vauxhall. Not only was the company founded 110 years ago, but this year also sees the centenary of their greatest model, the 30/98. A fully road-equipped 30/98 was capable of...
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Hands off! Or not? (Upd. White Gloves!)
When visiting a car show, we all too often see truly beautiful cars that have a small sign behind the window. Most of the times they read something like: "Don't touch me!" occasionally followed by:...
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Who was Pierre de Crawhez? (Upd. inventor of circuit racing?)
In a magazine dating from August 1909 we found several pictures of an expedition through Africa. There were no captions, except that one of the participants was Baron Pierre de Crawhez. We found a...
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The keyword is supervision
We suggest you take a moment to read the comments on the article about the 1939 Oldsmobile that we published last Wednesday. Whether or not we should any let anyone touch our precious automobiles is of...
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About Quiz # 346: 1927 Whippet Two-door coach
This quiz wasn't too hard, judging from the number of correct answers. Even if you couldn't identify the wreck, it would have been possible if you recognized the clues in our text. Both "gone to the...
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To Race or not to Race, that is the question (Upd. See Comments Pro and Contra)
This week we received a press release from the organizers of the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (LBVCR). They announce that they have added a "competitive element" to the Run (read the press...
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Old, but not garbage, trucks
After reading our recent article on street cleaning vehicles, John Elema checked his library to see if he also had some pictures of old garbage trucks. He couldn’t find those, but he did discover...
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Centenary of the First Spanish Grand Prix
Enrique Castells from Spain wrote to tell us of the upcoming Centenary of the very first Grand Prix of Spain: The history of this Grand Prix is a worthy one. In 1913 the RACE (Real Automovil Club de...
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Too easy to identify?
By Stuart Tallack: Is the attached photo too easy to identify? It is more than enough for anyone who has sat in the driving seat of one. Look at the instrument on the left of the photograph. It is the...
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The Cold Case Mysteries Part II
Here's a mystery that we published way back in 2005. Few will have seen it as we had not as much readers back then as we have now. We have recently published another old-time mystery and that one was...
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About Quiz # 349: 1927 Whippet Two-door coach
This quiz wasn't too hard, judging from the number of correct answers. Even if you couldn't identify the wreck, it would have been possible if you recognized the clues in our text. Both "gone to the...
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Nanny on the move!
By Michael E Ware: Today we are being encouraged to buy electric cars and councils are contemplating erecting plug-in charging points for them. The slightly eccentric William Dunkley from Birmingham...
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What is it? Quiz # 350
The last few quizzes have been (relatively) easy, so it's time for a more difficult one. Or so we think, as we have been proven wrong many times by the depth of your knowledge. The creator of this...
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Tearing through the mountains... at 30 mph!
On July 15-19, The HCCA's North Carolina Regional Group held their 62nd (!) annual tour in Hiawassee, GA, along the shores of beautiful Lake Chatuge which straddles the GA-NC state line. The NC Region...
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Detroit: from rags to riches and back, and up again...
Tomorrow, July 30, it will be 150 years ago that the man who changed the face of Detroit - Henry Ford - was born. It is a sour grape this memorial day comes so very short after Detroit filing...
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Rolls-Royce find in Frankford, Philadelphia
The most interesting and unusual of finds tend to come when you least expect it. Adolfo Massari and Andrew Mastin were only a few days into relocating Luxury Brokers International to their new...
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'Just the usual? Or something more refined?'
Michael Ware found this advertising postcard at the Motoring Picture Library in Beaulieu. The reverse of the postcard reads "The two Theo multiple pumps are connected to the one set of tanks, thus...
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