Earlier this week in the PreWarCar.com magazine...

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On Monday:

Let's start the week with some fun!

Let's start the week with some fun! No meetings with grumpy colleagues or an endless list of e-mails. We found this clip on the world-wide-web and thought it would be fun to show you. Our friends Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy can now sell their parts in our online Marketplace!

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On Tuesday:

The Gordon Pixie

If one decade had to be acknowledged as the golden age for bespoke coachbuilding, it must surely be the 1930s. Not only were the high-end firms dressing long, low chassis in increasingly elaborate, sweeping designs, but an array of special, stylised bodies were also offered for commissioning by mid-market buyers.

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On Wednesday:

Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille 2019

“The superfluous is very necessary!” said Voltaire, the French philosopher and writer. And nowhere is this more evident than amongst the splendour and historic grandeur of the Château de Chantilly, rebuilt after the French Revolution by Henri d’Orleans duc d’Aumale in the late 1870s to the new design of Honore Daumet on the site of the original dating back to 1484!

But for the car lover even more importantly it is the home of Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille. There cannot be many better settings than the gardens of the Grand Château in which to display a selection of some of the most artistic automobiles of all time. Very apt as an Italian tribunal in Bologna recently ruled that a car indeed can be classified legally as a “work of art”.

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On Thursday:

Iconic race cars primed for a rare high-speed demonstration run

Four iconic race cars are set to share the track for the first time ever in what will undoubtedly be one of the main highlights at the Bentley Drivers Club’s 71st annual race meeting at Silverstone on Saturday 3 August. The high-speed demonstration run, featuring the Barnato-Hassan Special, the Pacey-Hassan Special, the Napier-Railton and the Napier-Bentley, will offer spectators a once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness this fabulous quartet of giants on track together as the BDC celebrates Bentley Motors’ centenary in fitting style.

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On Friday:

What’s the link between Berliet’s and Renault’s Dauphines?

There won’t be many motor aficionados who think about Berliet when the model designation of Dauphine is mentioned. French motor manufacturer Berliet, based just outside Lyons, was first using the name, way before Renault. And the cars seen here are all 9CV and 11CV Berliet Dauphines of around 1936-vintage. The Berliet PR department surely seemed to know that ladies were the best promotion to sell cars and 83 years later these are still lovely photographs, aren’t they? By the way, does anyone recognise that bridge in the background?

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