A Milestone on the Greasy Road to Pre-war Joys

It all started with an 1928 Amilcar CGSs we found on the website of Dan Mooney, classic Jaguar specialist in Austin, Texas. It appeared this was the car of the late Irving Silverman. YW77 is known with the UK Amilcar Salmson register since the mid fifties and club founder Desmond Peacock was glad to hear she came back to Europe.  That was in 1999, and it was then when the idea came up to build a community with a special appetite for pre-1940 cars. A category of classics that had the interest of very few people back then. Just check back most classic car magazines of those years and you will see ( The Automobile always was and is the exception).

Anyway, it took us three months to think up the simple web address www.prewarcar.com (Dutch people are quite lazy as long their feet are dry...). It was on or around July 9 that we sort of went online and the earliest stories still known (we lost some material over the length of time) still can be found here in the Wayback Machine. Subtitle of the online magazine & marketplace was : The Greasy Road to Pre-War Joys. No idea why we left that one. The rest is history. 5000 stories down the road we can only make a very deep bow and thank you for all the support you gave. All the stories, the ideas, the photos, the mysteries and more!  

To celebrate this milestone we invite you to send in one or more photos plus some wording. A nice memory. A (driving) report about your own car. An anecdote. The best sender is rewarded with 5000 Euro cents or 5000 US$ cents. All stories that come with a photo will be published. In order to have a chance winning the US$/Euro 50 please upload your story preferably within 50 hours from now!  ( comp5000 )

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