Showing posts with label coach builders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coach builders. Show all posts

Sunday, March 27, 2011

between the age of horse drawn stagecoaches and the age of brass and horseless carriages

1899 Hautier 1911 Aberdonia Park Royal Landau

Above 1926 Hispano Suiza


1913 Thames, body by Thrupp Mabery


1909 Babcock electric brougham

and just for fun, and the wonder of it, I add the following

The George Barris Revere and the Raiders coach

Sunday, February 27, 2011

bridging the eras of horse drawn carriages and the first engine driven vehicles

Above is an electric coach built for the Queen Mary of Spain in 1896

from the Thrupp and Maberly coachbuilders in 1913 on a chassis from Thames Iron Works

Friday, October 22, 2010

An example of the cool vehicles that Bring A Trailer" has every day

Australian Charger Hemi Six Pack

Mercury Comet Cyclone

1965 Impala NASCAR racer

1959 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider, like the Ferris Bueller car
1957 BMW 503, like the Elvis post a couple weeks ago

Cord 813 Beverly

1922 Battistini coachwork Buick

1914 Hupmobile
So enjoy Bring A Trailer; http://bringatrailer.com/ there is no telling what will show up, last time I looked it was an SCCA racer Mustang from the late 60's, in need of restoration and then you'd be on the vintage racing circuit in great company!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

1947 Franay Bugatti


from the Paris Fair in 1948, a powerful Bentley with special bodywork by Franay, the car seems to have disappeared without trace.