AUTOS CARS CUSTOM

the movie is about a guy with a wonderful wife, and she has been putting up with his annual run in the London to Brighton event, and this time, he bets the family savings that he will beat his old pal, the guy in the yellow 1904 Spyker, that his 1905 Darraq will finish first between the two of them










this red car giving a tow? It's actually an Allard


How cool is the 3 wheeler with the red dress wearing passenger in front?








and how cool is this little kids 3 wheeler? Looks like a compartment on the step area I'm familiar with

Pantasote was a material that tops were made of, at the bottom of the ad you can see they listed 134 car company makes they were ready to equip

 above, 1919, below, 1928






all found while browsing http://bertc.com/subfive/flash/illustration_menu.htm

in 1907 one Spyker participated in the Paris to Peking race... one of the few cars that did. It placed 2nd http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/1907-spyker-charles-godard-and-jean-du.html

Image from Wikipedia via http://silodrome.com/1903-spyker/

Found on http://www.cardesign.ru/forum/diskussii/obschenie/1352

 the Italia that won the race is here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/winner-of-1907-paris-to-peking.html

The challenge to drive from Peking, China (modern day Beijing) to Paris, France in 1907, using totally untested automobiles, was taken up by five men:
- Prince Scipione Borghese, accompanied by his mechanic Ettore Guizzardi. They were further accompanied by Italian journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.
- Charles Goddard, accompanied by journalist Jean du Taillis.
- Auguste Pons and Octave Foucault, his mechanic.
- Georges Cormier.
- Victor Collignon.

On the 30th of August, twenty days later, the Spyker, followed by the two De Dions, arrived in Paris. Charles Goddard wasn’t behind the wheel of the Spyker; due to money-troubles, he wasn’t able to finish the race! But his car won second place and that was probably good enoughfound on http://scheong.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/peking-to-paris-the-original-amazing-race/