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Segrave was also Dick Seaman's first racing hero.
Well, yes ... but whether it actually conformed to the then 750kg Formule Internationale is another matter. If, as is often suggested, it was...
An interesting machine! An unblown 3 litre Delage Spéciale formerly owned by 'slot machine king' Louis Gérard. It was actually a Delahaye 135CS...
Several European street circuits featured tram tracks! Slightly out of the parameters of this thread; this is Pat Garland's Delage in practice for...
Two-seater bodies were variously mandatory or optional in the various International Formulas between the wars - the minimum cockpit width was...
The event is the Tatra hillclimb, at Zakopane nr. Kraków, August 16th 1931. Sixth round of the European Hillclimb Championship. FTD set by...
I have fond memories of seeing the Alfa Historic team at Goodwood. The astonishing sound of an Alfetta being fired up with what looked like an...
The silver one is indeed a Voisin 'Laboratoire'. However, the tank-bodied car is a 1925 Chenard & Walcker Z1.
The Bugatti factory, incidentally, was appropriated by the Germans in 1941; at various times it built torpedoes for the Luftwaffe, V1s and various...
That was during the Great War, not WW2. At which time Molsheim was in Germany. Very few European racing cars of any importance disappeared...
Well, where to begin? Firstly, it should be borne in mind that Monsieur Lago was known for his 'smoke and mirrors' approach to business. The plans...
Yes, there were many weird and wonderful specials in Argentina - including a twin-engined Cadillac. Lots of Ford, Chev, Buick, Plymouth and Hudson...
The ex-Caviglia/Nasi car, surely? A 1938 308 chassis, fitted with the 3.8 litre engine from an 8C-35 (as supplied).
I saw the same picture and caption on Facebook, Bob. The error is down to Facebook's auto-translate and/or Google Translate, which always...
Many years ago, Michael and I had a discussion about these cars as a diversion from a thread on Bucciali! Although I'm not sure if we reached a...
The only thing which seems to be known about the Bergström car is that it had twin DKWs - engine size unknown, but they did also build a 500 from...
Pictures of 'Fuzzi' - even 'clothed' - are hard to find. Motor Sport's obituary of Waddy gives a few details of the components which went into it;...
And this chap is standing next to a life-size cardboard cut-out of Jenks, who is holding the Duesy's crankshaft! [IMG]
A much -travelled car! Doug Nye tells its story here.
Thanks for those pictures. I'd seen the first one before, but not the other two. In August/September 1937 Oldfield seems to have tried to interest...
Presumably they weren't superstitious?
Sorry Bob, but that's one of those 'facts' which has been passed down as true when it isn't. Admittedly there wasn't a #17 in the 1924 Italian GP...
Not Indy, but both Ernst-Günther Burggaller's rebodied Bugatti and Pierre Felix's Lombard had them by 1932. Both appear to be integral -...
Since there seem to be no takers on the error ... Tazio's shirt should be bright yellow, not white.
No - the picture in my avatar is actually representative of Tazio's final race for Auto Union, at Belgrade in 1939. The only other time he drove a...
You're both partly right ...
But can you spot the mistake which was made when it was colourised?
:oops: *polishes glasses*
I wonder which Grand Prix? Guess it could be either the GP de Provence or maybe the GP du MC de Marseille - both 1925. In which case, it's...
I've certainly never come across Mlle Dutrieu racing cars. It would definitely have been worthy of note at the time! The British press reported...
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