Tuesday, October 18, 2011

1931 SS Jaguar

This fantastic first edition of the famous Jaguar began as the optimistic dream of a young 20 year old entrepreneur named William Lyons that had started building side cars for motorcycles that he named as the Swallow sidecars. When he was able to enlarge his business and start making full size cars this was his first production model. With his keen eye for design and beauty and untiring energy he designed and built this car that immediately sold out the orders that were delivered and created a huge backlog of orders waiting to be filled. At that time Lyons just had himself and one partner helping him to build these cars and production was very slow.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Alfa Romeo early 1930's

The Alfa Romeo was Italy's crowning triump in international racing. Designed and built by many of the world's most brilliant engineers and craftsmen such as Tazio Nuvolari,Achille Varzi, Antonio Ascari and many more the Alfa dominated the races with over 560 wins from 1894 though 1949. If you want to know more about this fine car just contact me. I have a good write up on it. Henry Ford has been quoted as saying, "I tip my hat when I see an Alfa Romero passing by".