Sunday, March 27, 2011
1937 Talbot Lago with Figoni and Falaschi body work, original owner was a Follie Bergere dancer who wed a Maharajah
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Labels: Beautiful paint, concours, Concours De Elegance, Figoni and Falachi, french, Nethercutt Museum, Talbot
Monday, January 10, 2011
Unusual French parcel delivery vehicle
Very sensible design!
Found on http://www.roadtransport.com
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Labels: delivery truck, french, postal delivery, unusual
Thursday, December 2, 2010
1939 Matford, joint venture between French maker Mathis and Ford (i'd never heard of it before yesterday!)
The Matfords were a joint venture between French maker Mathis and Ford. They came with either V-8/60 or V-8/85 power.
Thanks to Chris for the link to this photo! : http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4107859301_0218eec28c_o.jpg
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Frank in the Netherlands needed help identifying this car, what make model and year? Chrisoncars.com knew immediately what it was! Power of the WWW!!
It has a unique hood ornament that isn't in the Hood Ornament ID Guide http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/hood-ornament-identifiaction-guide.html
Chris http://chrisoncars.com/ knew exactly what this was
Hi Jesse,
The mystery car on your blog is a ’39 Matford. The Matfords were a joint venture between French maker Mathis and Ford. They came with either V-8/60 or V-8/85 power. I think this one would’ve been a 60 car. There are photos of other Mathis cars that have a more ornate grille. Those probably got the 85s. How I know this shit, I have no idea.
Regards,
Chris
‘39
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4107859301_0218eec28c_o.jpg
http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/ma/43camatfordLuftwaffebeiKrosnoinPolen_Baydeww2.jpg
’38 was very similar
http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/ma/matfordli_Baydeww2.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4565088824_41b3988392_o.jpg
http://imcdb.org/vehicle_224302-Matford-V8-13CV-F82A-1938.html
Here’s a shot of the ’37 ornament:
http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/ma/37matford_Bay.jpg
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
1899 Peugeot De Dion Bouton was at the Encinitas 3rd Thursday of the month cruise
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Labels: antiques, brass era, Encinitas, french, Motorcycle, three wheeler, vintage
Friday, February 12, 2010
I found a cool website, Mega Moto... I think you are going to love the variety and unique things they post there, here's a sample
the cool tagline of Mega Moto is : Cars, Trains, Motorcycles, Planes, Airships & Other Awesome Modes of Conveyance
A WW1 mobile carrier pigeon coup... yes, that was the best communication technique they had available in the field of battle .
I've posted somehting about this before, and just can't recall what... beyond there was just one that made it through the years and still exists, was a 1920's car but only on 2 wheels, the little buggy wheels are for holding it up at stops
Brockhouse Corgi WW2 camp scooter
1938 Phantom Corsair http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/1938-phantom-corsair.html
Volkswagen museum bus... I hope to find out more about this
Not sure yet what scoooter this is... looks slightly like a Salisbury
the photography of Gaston Jacquin 1935
A lamboghini and wonder of beauty, the 1963 350 GTV
Above, 1971 Star Streak motorhome
Above, something called the Stiletto
1955 Packard Request
1955 Flajole Forerunner
1915 Senate Subway Railroad under the nations capitol, Washington DC
1924 Amphibious Fusetti
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion, one of two to survive, probably number 3 of the trio Fuller made. One was found in the backyard of a Arizona suburb in the early 70's by a Car Life reader after they did a story on the Dymaxions, by a fan of Fullers interesting cars. It wasn't bought by a collector, though Harrah's buyers tried, a couple college students got money together and then let it be shown in Museums in the US... more on this story in another post.
One cool puller, looks like a trailer truck
Above isn't labeled, but looks like a barn find custom
Above the Helica
Above, the 1948 Davis
1910 Ford on Forest Service patrol
One of the fabulous streamliner beer delivery trucks
Above, the Lincoln Futura that Barris based the Batmobile on
Above is a replica by Andy Saunders of the below concept car, the 1958 Ford X 2000
Go see what else they've got! http://megamoto.tumblr.com/Posted by alex at 9:59 PM 0 comments
Labels: Amphicar, beer truck, Cadillac, Custom, Davis, Dymaxion, french, Harley Davidson, Lamborghini, Lincoln, Packard, Phantom Corsair, Scooter, tour bus, train, VW, WW1, WW2 Helica
