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Established July, 2001. Edition 2723
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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The daily Magazine & Marketplace
dedicated to the pre 1940 car
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November: 132 new - 86 sold/expired
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Tintin & Snowy; Tintin & Milou; Kuifje & Bobby; Tim & Struppi. Who hasn’t enjoyed the comics of the roving reporter and his little fox terrier? Tintin’s adventures were drawn by Belgian artist Georges Remi, who was better known as Hergé. From 1929 until his death in 1984 he wrote twenty-four of Tintin’s albums. Many of his earlier comics were also published in the Belgian newspaper supplement “Le Petit Vingtième”. This mysterious looking gouache graced the front page and comes from “The Blue Lotus”, published in April 1935, about Tintin’s struggle against a gang of drug smugglers. Titled “Where we see how Mr. Fan-Yeng is taken care off”, it is one of the many artifacts to be sold by Artcurial during their auction of comics on November 21-22. However, gems like these don’t come for peanuts. Artcurial estimates the Blue Lotus to sell at 35.0000-40.000 euros which is not outrageous for an artist with this fame between here and Hong Kong! (photo copywright Moulinsart / Artcurial)
UPDATE by editor: we wouldn't be surprised if the car depicted is the same as the Renault Reinastella which you can find at the Tin-Tin pages of François de Dardel.
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Now if you know about Amilcars, you may know that keeping these vintage jewels on the road is a labour of love. So keeping a car like that on the road in the former Soviet Republic is something which is really not simple to understand. Still at least one man managed and deserves our deepest respect. See the photos found by Ivan Barentsev of the pick-up that managed to survive. Now the amil-archeologists have the pleasant task to determine which exact type it is. Here is another shot which is showing the real Amilcar 'amateur'. More good news: the car has survived until this day. However not in its kolchoz livery but in a post-Soviet racing disguise. It is showing many Amilcar features but all 'upgrades' make the total hard to judge. So (check this first !) and give us your opinion.
UPDATES (II) came in form Glenn Robb, Detlef Kayser & Ivan Barantsev. Ivan tells the car is in the Letland car museum and that the first owner was factory driver Eugeny Kansky (who know more about him?). Anyway this may fit togehter with the remarks of Glen Robb: The car seems to be a G type and last time I saw it, it was in a car museum in Riga. The story is it ended there with a guy who who worked at Amilcar, Paris, and competed with the car in rallys etc. Detlef adds: "This strange Amilcar has already been treated in the British Newsletter of the Amilcar Register some years ago. There were several discussions about it and it seems to be a G or L chassis. But one should remember that a saloon bodied Amilcar G with a compressor once won its class in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1927 when it started from Königsberg (then still Germany). Could it be that very chassis?"
Updates (I) came in from Jos Cox who claims the engine to be an M-type. Craig Little adds: It's certainly not a CGS as it doesn't have the waisted front to the chassis with out-hung front springs. The front axle and chassis set-up looks typical G series tourer and this is supported (if you'll pardon the pun) by rear cantilever springs which are typical G series and also common to the Larger E type. But the E had a fore and aft drag link and there is no sign of it that I can see. So I'll say it's a G Series even though the hole at the base of the radiator doesn't quite add up. If it's not a G it could possibly be an M.
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Very addictive and no prediction how it will affect you. That’s LSD for you. And we don’t mean the colourless, odourless and tasteless stuff that causes a lot of trouble. No, in this case it’s this colourful, smoking and tasty 1922 L.S.D. cyclecar, recently bought by Mike Tebbett. The initials L.S.D. stand for Harry Longbottom the designer, Sykes and Sugden the manufacturers, and Dyson the accountant. The Yorkshire make, made from 1920 until 1924, distinguished itself from other three-wheelers in having a reverse gear. Mike’s L.S.D. seems complete and in fair order, except that it has an incorrect single cylinder 500cc JAP instead of a side-valve JAP V-twin. Mike would like to hear from anyone who recognises this L.S.D. and especially about a mysterious man in East Anglia or Norfolk, who is reputed to hold a cache of brand new spares for the make! Can we trace this treasure? Tell us!
Update III Luc Ryckaert came up with this original LSD poster that is hanging in his kitchen!
Update II comes from Paul Linster about a LSD in the Tolson Museum in Huddersfield. The museum explains the name LSD as coming from the English currency at the time and was used to emphasise the pounds, shillings and pence that the owner could save driving the LSD.
Update I by Fons Alkemade who reports that there’s a 1923 LSD with the correct V-twin JAP engine in the Dutch Louwman Collection.
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What is strictly taboo in museums under normal circumstances will be possible in the BMW museum. But only on Friday, November 21, during the “Night of the White Gloves”. Visitors will be permitted, even encouraged to touch the many classic cars, motorcycles and engines on display so they can "sense" their technology and design. Not only can the exhibits be handled, but BMW staff will also be opening up the vehicles' interior, engine compartment and luggage compartment. Everyone is invited, but this Night of the White Gloves will, for the first time, also offer an opportunity for the visually impaired to touch and "grasp" the exhibits at the Museum. But as BMW really treasures their precious classics, you will be handed a pair of white gloves. (photo courtesy BMW)
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