Tamplin Cycle Car - 1921 by Perico001 This is one of the few...

Tamplin Cycle Car - 1921 by Perico001 This is one of the few remaining Tamplins, a car make from Staines in England.

The car is a proper cycle-car, with its narrow wheels, straight mudguards and staggered, tandem-seating arrangement. It was designed by Captain Sir John Carden, who had built his first car in 1913. This model has a front-mounted 1,000 cc, V-twin JAP engine, reinforced fibreboard bodywork, a simple belt drive and rather flimsy, independent front-wheel suspension.

In 1919 Carden sold the production rights to this car to one of his dealers, E.A. Tamplin, who immediately linked his name to the car. Tamplins remained in production until 1925, though it is said that the cars were manufactured to order until 1927.

Louwman Museum
Den Haag - The Hague
Nederland - Netherlands
March 2013
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Delahaye 135M Cabriolet - 1937 by Perico001 Coachwork by Henri...

Delahaye 135M Cabriolet - 1937 by Perico001 Coachwork by Henri Chapron

At the paris Motor Show 1933, Delahaye broke totally with their traditional productions by presenting two modern chassis with independent front wheels : the four-cylinder Type 134 and the six-cylinder, 3,2-litre Type 138. The latter would lead to the celebrated Type 135, characterized by a lower chassis frame of even more modern design, with side-frames of with tubular struts, the ensemble being electrically welded.

In June 1934 Delahaye obtained approval from the Service des Mines (French vehicle-testing service) for a chassis with a 3,5-litre engine known as the 135M (for modified). The engine entered production in 1935 after being tested in competition.

This 135M with bodywork by Henri Chapron, belonged for many years to the well-known collector Jacques Dumontant, who inherited it from his father and often used it on his travels in search of vintage cars. Although that 135M usually came with openwork sheet-metal wheels, this one has more elegant wire wheels, always available as an option at the time.

Zoute Concours d'Elegance
The Royal Zoute Golf Club

Zoute Grand Prix 2016
Knokke - Belgium
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Avions Voisin C23 Cabriolet - 1932 by Perico001 Coachwork by...

Avions Voisin C23 Cabriolet - 1932 by Perico001 Coachwork by Graber

Gabriel B. Voisin was an aviation pioneer and manufacturer who in1919 starting producing cars using Knight-type sleeve valve engines at Issy-les-Moulineaux, an industrial suburb to the southwest of Paris. Former student of the Fine Arts School of Lyon and enthusiast for all things mechanical since his childhood. Voisin’s uncompromisingly individual designs made extensive use of light alloy, especially aluminum.

One of the company’s most striking early designs was the Laboratoire Grand Prix car of 1923 : one of the first cars ever to use monocoque chassis construction, and utilizing small radiator-mounted propeller to drive the cooling pump. The characteristic Voisin style of ‘rational’ coachwork he developed in conjunction with his collaborator André Noel. Noel prioritized lightness, central weight distribution, capacious luggage boxes and distinctively angular lines. The 1930s models with underslung chassis were strikingly low.

This C23 was found in Montpellier, France, in 2015 by its current owner. The car was in an incredible original condition, has been technically and mechanically restored but no cosmetically restoration was carried out. It was presented last year at the Concours d'elegance at Schloss Dyck in the class 'Masterpieces & Style’ and received several prices : Best in Class, Fiva Trophy - Preservation award, and world most pristine Masterpiece.

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Knokke - Belgium
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Fiat 8V Berlinetta Rapi - 1953 by Perico001 Ex-Works Coachwork...

Fiat 8V Berlinetta Rapi - 1953 by Perico001 Ex-Works
Coachwork by Rapi - Fiat
Chassis no. 000032

Displacing just under two liters, the Tipo 104 motor V8 featured an unusual 70° architecture, as well as advanced racing components such as a finned aluminum sump, forged crankshaft, polished intakes and ports, and tubular 4x1 stainless steel exhaust manifolds. As Giacosa later noted of the V-8 in his autobiography, “the idea of mounting it on a sports car for a small production run was attractive and aroused the keenest interest among the design engineers.”

And so was born the Fiat 8V, which featured the only overhead-valve V-8 that Fiat ever built during its long and storied history. Known in Italy as the Otto Vu, the new model was positioned as a luxury grand touring sports car.To maintain the necessary quality-control for such a high-end product, the fabrication of the chassis was farmed out to Giorgio Ambrosini’s Siata, the tuning specialists that had long served as Fiat’s in-house competition and customization department. This choice was probably further facilitated by Ghia owner Mario Felice Boano’s 1950 hiring of Luigi Segre, a former Siata sales manager, as Ghia’s sales director.

The Otto Vu made its public debut at the Geneva Salon in March 1952, and immediately impressed all who saw it with Fiat’s ability to produce such a jewel-like automobile. Over the following two years, about two hundred tipo 104 motors were produced (though more than fifty of these were eventually installed in the upcoming Siata roadster).
The Otto Vu automobile was even more rare, with approximately 114 examples built through 1954. While at least forty of these cars were bodied with the factory coachwork by Rapi, the other chassis were clothed by coachbuilders such as Balbo, Pinin Farina, Vignale and Zagato.

The 8V Rapi Corsa presented here was delivered new in Milan where it was owned and raced by Scuderia Ambrosiana. The car was fitted with lightweight body and sliding windows, it was raced in the 1953 Mille Miglia finishing 18th overall. Sold to Vincenzo Aurricchio in 1954 and it participated again in the Mille Miglia that same year where it didn’t finish.

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