Earlier this week in the PreWarCar.com magazine…

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On Monday

Docteur Mendailles and his mysterious car

This picture was recently found by Jean-Luc Bach who lives near Saint Pantaleon, a small village near Cahors in the South of France. It was sent in by his friend Bruno Estibals who asked for our help as he has some difficulty identifying this beauty.

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On Tuesday

Aussie Special saw it all – but is it original?

Apart from the last driver’s name on its side, this neat little Special wears another three names on its side and that’s because it comes with quite some motorsports history from Down Under. To mention just a few more names: Julian ‘Gib’ Barrett, John White and Alan Ashton, gave the ‘BWA’ its name when they built it in 1938, using a blown four-cylinder 1.5-litre Meadows engine from a Fraser Nash that had been raced during an earlier part of the 1930s. Front suspension, brakes, steering box, gearbox and wheel hubs were Lancia-sourced.

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On Wednesday

Soestdijk goes Veteran style - and we would like to invite you!

When one thinks of veteran cars, the first thing that comes to one's mind is the famous London to Brighton Run. One of the oldest events for motoring cars is held every year in the first weekend of November.

During the upcoming Concours d'Elegance Soestdijk in The Netherlands, there will be an ode to this event with a special class for automobiles built before 1904. As some of you may know, the staff of PreWarCar.com has a special interest in the early cars and we are therefore pleased to work together with the organisation of Concours Soestdijk. This year we will show the very beginning of the cars that we know today to a bigger audience.

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On Thursday

It all started with a trunk of old racing memorabilia

It is so admirable how passionate Brian Blain is able to talk about PreWarCars. Please take 5 minutes time to watch and listen to this gentleman's story. It all started with a trunk of old racing memorabilia.

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On Friday

Anonymous mechanic girls

When, a couple of years ago, this enchanting photograph was uploaded on the worldwide web by ety.com it didn’t take long before it spread like wildfire in a dried-out wood. It is now regularly used to illustrate the need of young women in the motor industry. And why not? It is another great example of a picture saying more than a thousand words, we reckon.

But here at PreWarCar.com, we are always hungry for a bit more than just that. So we were eager to learn a little on the background of this now well-known image. Not much, or so it seems. All we could find was that it was taken in 1927 – allegedly, while the girls are said to be college girls learning about the mechanicals of a car – supposedly.

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