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just old cars and love of them

Hey. how about this?  Just found it and found it fascinating. Not too sure how well it would hold up in constant use. I’m assuming this thing has been stored not used.  Whatever .... the fact it’s an old car is enough for me. I just like those old styles.  If I had the chance or more like it, the money, I’d get one of those cars built with modern materials and engine, but the style of the 20’s and 1930’s. Like the 1928 Mercedes. One among very many. The Stutz Bearcat comes to mind.
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Those cars had pizazz. They were jazzy. I just like the looks of them although having once ridden in an uncle’s model A, just like this one ...
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The ride wasn’t anything to write home about. A 1928 Ford and Uncle Al was still driving the darn thing in 1945.
Anyway, this posting is about a wooden car. This one.

Historic wooden car floated at auction

Is it a car or is it a boat? Unique car sails back into the limelight as it goes to auction with an estimated value of £20,000-£30,000.

By David Williams

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Q: What do you get when you commission a boat builder to perform a “makeover” on a 1932 Talbot 14/65?

A: A unique Boat Tail Tourer, such as this one that will go under the hammer next month.

The Talbot began life as an ordinary saloon car, created by the Clement Talbot factory in west London nearly 80 years ago. But it took on its nautical flavour 30 years later when boat-builder Peter Lawrence of Cranleigh, Surrey, was commissioned to design and craft a new stem-to-stem wooden body that still adorns the car today.

It was entirely handbuilt, constructed from three-inch by 1/4-inch planks of finest Honduran mahogany, laid fore and aft and contoured to the classic boat tail configuration. The bonnet and doors were then cut out and expertly fabricated, with the whole body finished to the highest standards.

The interior is finished in black leather with art deco detailing, reflecting the era in which the car was built. Ingeniously, so as not to interrupt the elegant mahogany lines when travelling without rear passengers, it features a removable wooden hatch, in true boat tradition, beneath which is a bench seat.

The Talbot has a conventional steel chassis and is powered by a six-cylinder, 1,670cc engine. Beyond two rectangular aeroscreens, a tonneau and magnificent nine-inch diameter Marchal headlamps, the specification – not to mention the creature comforts – are limited, requiring the “crew” to be suitably attired for inclement weather.

The unique Talbot goes to auction with Historics at Brooklands on December 4, when it is expected to fetch between £20,000-£30,000. According to boatbuilders Henwood & Dean, of Hambleden, Henley-on-Thames, the estimate is comparable to the cost of recreating the wooden bodyshell alone, today.

Further details at the Historics at Brooklands website.

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