Het wereldwijde magazine en verkoopplatform voor liefhebbers van klassieke auto’s, door liefhebbers.
Het wereldwijde magazine en verkoopplatform voor liefhebbers van klassieke auto’s, door liefhebbers.
Filter
Maak een keuze
- Auto's
-
Merk >>
-
Bouwjaar >>
-
-
Categorie >>
- Motorfietsen
- Onderdelen
-
Automerk >>
-
Fabrikant >>
-
Categorie >>
- Fietsen
-
Bouwjaar >>
-
Landen
Won in a wager – 1929 Talbot-Darracq K74
Imagine the scene: the early hours of 1st January, 1948. The new year's celebrations have begun to subside, and the focus has turned to a game of cards. Perhaps suffering the effects of a little too much festive spirit, one player makes a high bet – the ownership of his Vintage motor car, a 1929 Talbot-Darracq. Of course, he loses his hand. The winner thinks nothing more of it until several hours later, when the car appears outside his house. He insists the bet had been made in jest, and in any case he doesn't want the car, but the high-stakes loser is determined, and ownership is transferred.
It sounds like something from a cheap novel, but it really happened to Roger Tanner, and the Talbot-Darracq became the first in his collection of high-quality pre-war cars, which later included marques such as Hispano-Suiza, Isotta Fraschini, Rolls-Royce and Bentley. In the latest issue of The Automobile, John Warburton speaks to Roger Tanner about his love of Vintage cars and the enviable collection he built up over six decades. Incidentally, although Tanner claimed not to want the Darracq at first, he went on to use the car for the next 10 years, and only parted with it in 2007, when it was auctioned along with other cars from the collection. Does anyone know what became of it?
Gepubliceerd:
woensdag februari 25th, 2015
Facebook
LinkedIn
Twitter
WhatsApp
Email
Copy
Reacties
Onbekend
27 Februari 2015, 14:55
Congratulations to Geoff Hope and his crew at Greenfield Service Station for keeping them all running in the days that they had lathes and other more complex tools in garages, of course, including an anvil, not parts catalogues.
Lees verder
From a BBC News article, 19th October, 2023:
A man who discovered his father's beloved classic car on an auction website has completed its restoration after three years of graft.
Malcolm Stern, from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, chanced on the 1930s Talbot Darracq while trying to recreate a 3D model.
He said he could not believe it was the very car his father owned, although it had become a "right wreck".
The 94-year-old said taking it to the road again was "terrifying".
"Many people get old cars but this one is different, because it was my father's car, it makes it a little bit special," he said.
Mr Stern bought a 3D printer before lockdown and wanted to make a model of the bright yellow classic car his father owned and drove when he was growing up.
When looking for reference pictures on the internet, he found the actual car being sold at auction.
He said his father, Alec Stern, acquired the car in 1935, adding: "He drove that car to work every day, and he took us on picnics.
The yellow classic car was manufactured in 1930 and is nearly as old as Malcolm Stern himself.
When Mr Stern and his wife went to visit the car, they said it looked a "right wreck" but decided to buy it for £6,000 because it was so special.
"For sentimental reasons I thought I would buy it... then we brought the car home, and that was in September 2020 and I've been working on the car three years since," he said.
"The original engine was smashed up in a rally... I reckon that the renovators did about 2,000 hours work and I reckon I did about 1,000."
Mr Stern now hopes to spend another six months renovating the interior, saying the restoration project had been "difficult" and "expensive".
He said: "I'm still very excited, very surprised that I'm 94, able to be here and do this and still be fit enough to go out in the car for a ride.
"I think my father would be very proud, he'd be very excited as well," he said.