Earlier this week in the PreWarCar.com magazine…

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Lafitte First!

One of the many attractions of cyclecars is their tendency for eccentricity in some form or another, and the French-built Lafitte of 1923-28 perfectly embodies that, with power coming from a 736cc three-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine, swivelling around a pair of trunnion bushes so that the carburetter remains upright while the male and female members of the clutch assembly can meet at various angles.

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Share (your) videos!

You might already have noticed it. It is from now on also possible to play videos at PreWarCar.Com and PostWarClassic.com. This video, for instance, we made of the absolutely amazing selection of PreWarRaceCars entering the curved banks of Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry in France. This was during Vintage Revival Montlhéry earlier this month.

Do you also have a video you made at an event you visited? But it can for instance also be a driving experience, an old movie you found on the internet or something else fun which involves PreWarCars. Please send the video or the youtube link to us via letters to the editor or [email protected]. Then we can share the footage with other classic car enthusiasts!

When Joe’s GWK met a sister model

Joe Young from Tasmania, Australia got in touch with us some time ago regarding his British-built cycle car, made by GWK (Grice Wood & Keiller) in 1913. He wrote: “There are only eight existing in the world and the two remaining in Australia were together in May last year. The one I brought back to Tasmania came from New Castel NSW.” What’s more: he sent over a stack of photographs of his car in a variety of states – from the 1960s to last year when reunited with its sister model.

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A quest concerning the Grand Concours D’Elegance Automobile held in Biarritz, France in September 1931

One of our subscribers is restoring a 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental that came to the USA from Egypt in the late 1950s. Mounted on the dash was the wonderful art-deco plaque by Fraisse-Demey, which can be seen in the photograph.

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