Motorcars- Vintage and Classics


ATTI TYPE 23 (BRESCIA MODIFIE) – 1925


ATTI TYPE 23 (BRESCIA MODIFIE) – 1925
The extremely successful Type 13 was nicknamed “Brescia” after the resounding 1,2,3,4 victory in the voiturette class of the Italian Grand Prix of 1921. The Type 23 Bugatti is its touring version. It boasts the hallmarks of classic Bugatti design, including a single overhead camshaft engine of 1½ Litres and a sweet gearbox enabling lightning gear changes. The peculiar Bugatti rear suspension with reversed quarter-elliptic springs is also used. The brakes, on the rear wheels only, were not quite as good. They were indecently fast for their day with even the touring versions (known as the Brescia Modifié) able to maintain 120 km/h all day long. The Brescia Bugatti and its derivatives were in production from 1922 until 1926.


FORD MODEL T - 1911

FORD MODEL T - 1911

FORD MODEL T - 1911
“The Universal Car” and “The Car of the Century” describes Henry Ford’s classic Model T. Introduced in October 1908, it’s a curious mix of advanced and retrograde engineering and was one of the first American cars with a removable cylinder head. Extensive use of vanadium steel made it light and immensely strong. Being relatively easy to drive and maintain made it extremely popular in rural districts lacking highly-skilled mechanics. John Steinbeck immortalised the Model T in Cannery Row: “Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars… Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few born in them…”. South African right-hand drive Model T’s were produced in Canada until local assembly began in 1924.


HUMBER HUMBERETTE – 1914

HUMBER HUMBERETTE – 1914

HUMBER HUMBERETTE – 1914
Humber was a pioneering British cycle manufacturer, which began manufacturing copies of the French Michaux Vélocipede in 1870. The manufacture of powered vehicles started in 1896, and Léon Bollée vehicals were sold as either Coventry-Bollées or Coventry-Motettes. The first Humber car was built in 1901 in Humber’s Beeston factory near Nottingham with the production of the light Humberette starting in 1904 in Coventry. By the end of 1906, Humber was one of the largest British car manufacturers. Production of the first Humberette was terminated in 1905 in order to concentrate on the bigger cars, but by 1913 the model name was revived when a new Humberette cyclecar made its debut. Humber was taken over by the Rootes brothers in the 1920s. In 1976, the make was terminated when Chrysler took over.


DKW SONDERKLASSE – 1954

DKW SONDERKLASSE – 1954

WOLSELEY 15/60 -1960

WOLSELEY 15/60 -1960

FERRARI F40 - 1987
To celebrate Ferrari’s fortieth anniversary a year before, the company introduced the F40 in 1987. It was intended to be the fastest production car in the world. Tested by the respected Italian magazine Quattroruote, it achieved a maximum speed of 320 km/h and accelerated to 100 km/h in just under four seconds. Only 1311 F40’s were built from 1987 to 1992.