Don’t call the Fire-Brigade!

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What do you get when you mate a quite ordinary Chandler with a V-8 aero engine? Fire, lots of fire! And there’s plenty of that in this Chandler that started its life at a Buenos Aires Chandler dealer. Ermanno Blanchiardi, their sales manager annex racing driver, decided he wanted some publicity by racing one. The Chandler however, was anything but a racing machine, so Blanchiardi fitted one of the overhead valve V-8 Curtiss aero engines that happened to be readily available from military surplus after the Great War. Blanchiardi competed with the Chandler-Curtiss Special until 1923, with considerable successes. A new owner also raced the Chandler-Curtiss, but after a few years pushed it into a corner of his workshop, where it remained forgotten until a couple of years ago. Still bearing many of the scars of its competition life, the Chandler-Curtiss will be auctioned by RM at their Automobiles of London sale on October 29. (photos courtesy RM-auctions)

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