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Why Scout?
Last Friday we showed you an edwardian mystery sports car. Frequent visitor and honorable jury member Ariejan Bos came with 1908 Scout whish seems highly probable.He wrote: " This illustration from the...
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Today we’d like to introduce you to three ladies - two real and one fictional. Let’s start with the Honourable Phryne Fisher ( pronounced Fry-knee) – the star of the popular period detective drama Miss...
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About Quiz #414: 1923 Dunamis C-8 Limousine
Over 20 responses answers to the quiz of last Saturday, not a bad score. An extremely rare (probably no lonfer existing) and interesting automobile? The clue about its belgian origins definitely was a...
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Honorary member of the DVSCC: Philine Heikens
Last Sunday the new year's meeting of the Dutch Vintage Sports Car Club took place at the workshop of Ab van Egmond just outside Amsterdam. Some 70 active members came together to evaluate 2015 and to...
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Is our Amilcar a factory racer?
Some ten years ago we purchased an Amilcar which, at the time and having no great experience of the marque, I believed to be a mixture of CGS and CGSs parts. In any case it drove well and looked...
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Skinner's union: the story behind S.U.carburetter
By Michael E Ware:(please note: I have used the spelling for carburetter which is used throughout the book)There can be few old car enthusiasts who have not experienced a car which was fitted with a...
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Sculpturer of Bugatti brakes: Eldon Guay
One of the people who visited our stand at the recent Rétromobile was Eldon Guay from Calgary, Canada. He is a sculpturer, who likes to work with contrasting materials like carrara marble and stainless...
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Alvis for sale with room to improve.
Today is Day 1 of Richard Edmond Auctions' three- day sale in Chippenham, Wiltshire and the car lots on saturday include several vintage Alvis cars at easily affordable prices. There are six 12/50...
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Pic-nic season is getting closer
Western Europe is still chilly and wet. And we hear more about the flu which is going round than about pleasant pic-nic drive outs. So we can't blame our charming Driday team for wearing long and heavy...
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What is it? Quiz #415
A reknown photo by the famous French photographer Louis Lumière of a car, of which the identity was hitherto unsolved. Now it is time to finally crack the mystery. The make had its roots in the early...
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The Hautier electric car Mystery
The Russian car historian Vasily Shiska is struggling with the above issue for a long time already and is asking your help (Vasily published in russian about Leon-Bollée and about Darracq) :"At the...
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Daimler find in central Islamabad
"What you don't expect to see on pakistani pakistani roads roads is exactly what we saw a little while back. This is in Saddar Rawalpindi that is considered downtown to the capital of Pakistan i.e...
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Veil, Duster and Tire Iron.
Today is March 8 and International Women's Day and we gladly support the global efforts to achieve 'gender parity'. Coincidentally we recently found a first edition of ' Veil, Duster and Tire Iron'...
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The François de Montferrand family Mysteries
Sébastien Richer sends a very nice set of photos showing a group of five veteran and edwardian motorcars that once were owned by the family of François de Montferrand. We presume the picture...
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Beaches are getting crowded...: BABS is returning as well
Less than two weeks ago we reported about the Sunbeam Tiger returning to the beach. Today we present you another returning beach visitor.In April 1926, John Godfrey Parry Thomas drove BABS ( this LSR...
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Dance and fly with a Terraplane.
Today's picture was taken outside the El Capitan Theatre in the Mission, San Francisco . Famous for its beautiful Spanish Colonial Revival architecture with a splendid Mexican Baroque facade outside....
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About quiz #415 - A 1907 La Buire double phaéton
The Chantiers de la Buire were founded in Lyon in the middle of the 19th century to produce tramway and train materials. In the 1890s a contract was made with Léon Serpollet to produce some tricycles...
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Lesser known French cars most welcome in Lelystad
When the city of Lelystad was about 16 years old, people there organized the first gathering of classic cars. That was in 1983... Since then Lelystad has grown and became the capital of a new province...
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Amilcar found under a van !
With the prices of the Amilcar cars growing and growing, the enthusiasts of this French marque who haven´t managed to buy one yet have a difficult task: to find one at an affordable price. Your...
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Would you rather own the Daimler or the Rolls?
This lovely picture of a Daimler breakdown lorry towing in a crashed Rolls-Royce was reproduced in the magazine of the Colchester Vintage Motor Club and Michael Ware likes to thank Ken Sheppard for...
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