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Established July, 2001. Edition 3125
Saturday, November 07, 2009
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The daily Magazine & Marketplace
dedicated to the pre 1940 car
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November: 49 new - 28 sold/expired
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The most important find of the new century is not a Hispano, not a Bugatti, not a Duesenberg, nor a SSK Merc. It is a plain family car in far from pristine condition. It has no history whatsoever, no papers, no chassis number and is missing it's radiator, bumpers original wheels, and not unimportant, it is missing the original engine and possibly has the steering wheel & wipers on the wrong side. So what the heck about this pile of scrap?
Anybody interested in automotive history and development will understand. Each of those will see why we claim that this car is surpassing the above metnioned names in importance. This "The Missing Link" from the Japanese car industry. The zero milestone of mega car builder Toyota. The oldest known Toyota. The first known survivor of the 100 million or so cars that followed... Try to grasp the impact of that idea before returning to the quiz.
(check wikipedia) In 1987, when Toyota celebrated their 50th birthday , they built a handfull of replica's in the series AA(first), AB (cabrio), AC (seriesII) like this (click) , based on a lot of educated guessing.
And now, twenty years later, out of the clear blue sky of East Siberia this car pops in through an ambitious Russian journalist and PreWarCar's network. So far the Toyota works in Japan have not yet decided which exact type of car it is. The non existent windscreen divider (not on the AA model and very thick on the later AC), the wrong position of the wipers and many more details make it hard to say which exact model it is. Not even the factory dares to say so far.... All competitors who had the make correct will get the PreWarCar T-shirt. Our congratulations to winners: Gerard Lansink, Ced Pearce, David Miller, Jean-Marie Davis, Bryan Norfolk, George Cassidy, Raul San Giorgi, Fritz Hegemann, Gaurav Sawant & Luc Rijckart (also correct: jurymembers Kit Foster and Marc Fellman)
Finally one thing is sure, this is not the last that you have seen or read about this car. Currently it is in the hands of a large Toyota dealer, who avoids publicity. Like said before it is our opinion that the car should not be restored at all. It is the only tangible and 3D reference to the first products of the worlds largest automobile manufacturer. Most probably, the car will turn up in Tokyo not too long from now. This is not the kind of car to keep in a private collection.
There only can be one decent parking lot for this Scarfaced Warrior - or should we say Samurai: the Toyota Museum in Tokyo. Flanked right and left with a replica. And finally-finally: let no man raise his hammer, spanner or worse a paintgun to destroy the appearance of the oldest of all Toyota's !
(these photos for editors available upon request)
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Set to open on 15 January, 2010, the new office – RM’s second in Europe after London – is located in Hamburg. See full press release.
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Apart from the Sunday Run to Brighton there was also the Saturday Concours in London’s Regent Street. The weather cooperated very nicely giving the numerous spectators a lovely view of the veteran cars and the participators. Shown here are the winners of the Concours d’équipe, Miss Emma and Miss Elizabeth Bishop with their 1903 Panhard et Levassor (Click main pic!). But there was more to enjoy, the garments, the brass, more brass and even the Panhard et Levassor of Tim Scott undergoing repairs in a side street. In the end the Spectators Special Award went to Mr. Marco Fusco from Germany with his Petigars Prat Carrabin.
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Much fun and heavy rains sum up the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, held last Sunday. Editor Rutger Booy was fortunate to have been offered a ride with the Italian team entered by Domenico Paterlini They had two cars, an Aster and a Georges Richard. Together with driver Gemmi Tommaso, Rutger started in the second group at 06.58 hours just after sunrise. Out of Hyde Park and over Westminster Bridge went well, but going through Lambeth, the Georges Richard developed some trouble. During the road-side repair, which took over an hour, the heavens opened and when taking off again going got tough for the little Georges Richard. The Aster went well, but ran out of petrol and refused to start again after filling up. Having lost much time the Coffee Stop at Crawley had to skipped. Luckily the rain stopped and the weather became nice again, making it a pleasant drive through the country, although several times it was get out and push. About 16.00 hrs the Aster reached Brighton, proudly waving the Italian flag and very pleased to have made it to the finish.
(special thanks to the Brescia Veteran Team, Fabrizio Tatiana and www.MWVCC.it !)
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The DVD that was made about the epic Greatest Auto race on Earth, the New-York to Paris of 1908, has already won the Special Jury Award from the Houston International Film Festival. Then it received three AMPIAs, (a price from the Alberta Motion Picture Industry) and just recently the DVD has been given the prestigious EP Ingersoll Award from the Society of Automotive Historians. The (reconstructed) cars that were the stars in the movie are now living (along with 23 feet of original research and thousands of photos) at the Reynolds Auto Museum. (photos courtesy Michael Hamm / Frame30 productions)
ORDERING: You can order a copy of this DVD through this link.
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