This car is believed to be the sole survivor of the French team of four cars built in Luneville for the 1912 Dieppe Grand Prix. Victor Hemery who proceeded to take a number of track and world records with the car at Brooklands race track England.
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Category Archives: Vintage
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Grindlay Peerless
1928 a 500cc Grindlay Peerless became the first motor bike to hit 100 miles an hour at Brooklands motor racing track ridden by Bill Lacey.
Heavy horses
Getting Steam Up
Take at the Honiton hill rally Devon
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1959 Austin Healey Sprite
Or better Known as its nick-name Frogeye Sprite, because the way the headlights were mounted and the grill given it the look of a frog. Designed by Donald Healey Motor Company in 1958 in Abingdon England. It was intended to be a low-cost model that a person could put in the bike shed, the car cost around £669 pounds. It was the successor to the sporting version of the pre-war Austin Seven. Today its a very collectable classic car.
All Steam Up
A miniature steam 3″ scale McLaren road locomotive finished in First World War livery. It had taken the owner a period of 11 years to build.
