Earlier this week in the PreWarCar.com Magazine…

Only a few days left before Salon Rétromobile in Paris and we are very much looking forward to it. The PreWarCar.com and PostWarClassic.com team welcomes you at our stand in Pavillon 1, but there is more to do. Read this and more in today’s newsletter. Enjoy your Sunday!

 

Salon Rétromobile will take place from Wednesday the 6th of February until Sunday the 10th of February 2019 at the Expo Porte de Versailles. There is always so much to do so we will give our advice on how to spend your week in Paris. 

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The Grand Palais Sale of Bonhams is something we look forward to every year when we are at Salon Rétromobile. Besides the impressive location, it is the high quantity and quality of PreWarCars that makes it a must-go-to. We took a look in the catalogue to be well prepared.

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The darling of Concours judges all over the world, Alfa Romeo 8C 2900’s all seem to lead blessed lives of pampering, polishing and sunny days at the shores of Concourses while the wider automotive world can only gaze at them in awe. Now you can see this great car in person, as it will be auctioned by Artcurial.

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People just love to relive past memories. In general, but especially those which include PreWarCars! Today we go back in time… Back in 2016, we invited French car historian Fons Alkemade to show us traces the famous make Panhard Levassor has left in the streets of Paris.

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It was inevitable that when motorised tricycles became available from the mid-1890s, that they would be used by both sexes. In France, women on board motorised tricycles were a common sight from 1898, not just on the leafy byways of the Bois de Boulogne but as competitors in road races too. 

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The engines were advanced - twin overhead cam straight eights of 1100cc and 1243cc (rotating anti-clockwise), when supercharged they were reputed to produce over 100hp per litre at 9000 rpm. De Coucy's were entered into but did not compete, two races at Monthlèry, the 1927 Coupe de la Commission Sportive and the 1931 French Grand Prix.