For many
automobilia
collectors,
BROOKLANDS Motor
Car Racetrack
has a special
nostalgic appeal
By Margaret G
Powling .
'Brands Hatch.
Le Mans.
Nurburgring.
Jack Brabham.
Stirling Moss.
Michael
Schumacher.
Names which send
a frisson down
the spines of
motor racing
aficionados. And
then there is
Brooklands. Ahh,
Brooklands (in a
whisper of
nostalgia, as if
saying, “Ahh,
Bisto...”). For
Brooklands
really is in
pole position
when it comes to
the giants of
motor Racing...'
OIL CHIC: Innovative, imaginative advertising
ideas from SHELL By Andrew Leston.
'Feathered and
furred, web-toed
and hoofed, long
tailed and snub
muzzled, the
multitude of
animal figures
that poured out
in an exuberance
of creativity
from the
Austrian bronze
workshops from
the 1850s
onwards would
have had Noah
scratching his
head as he
puzzled how to
fit them all
into his ark...'
Classic cars have never been so popular.
'There's no
doubt about it,
the classic car
world is
enjoying
something of a
boom at the
moment. Scarcely
a week goes by
without a new
world record
price being set
at one auction
or another,
especially in
America where
muscle cars from
the late 1960s
and early 1970s
have gone
absolutely
ballistic
recently.
Spectacular
evidence of this
trend came in
May this year
when a 1969
Dodge Charger
that had starred
in an episode of
the 1980s TV
series 'The
Dukes of Hazzard'
was sold at
auction for a
staggering $9.9
million. ...'
Fuelled by passion; Clare Blake meets Barry
Burnett, a man whose boyhood dreams became a
reality.
'How does a
collection
start, What
plants the seed?
For Barry
Burnett as a 12
year old, it was
the sight of a
sleek gleaming
1930s D8S Delage
in a garage, an
unusual French
car from a
company renowned
for high quality
design and
manufacture with
consummate
perfectionist
Louis Delage at
the helm...'
Lalique CAR MASCOTS By Mike Penn.
'Amongst
automobilia
collectors the
most common to
be found is that
of the mascot
collector. Car
mascots have
been
individualising
their owner’s
mounts for over
100 years and
have been
produced in all
sorts of
differing forms
from evil imps
to beautiful
young ladies and
from fleas to
elephants. They
can be bought
cheaply or you
can sink tens of
thousands of
pounds for a
single mascot.
The expensive
end of this
market has been
cornered by the
work of a French
jeweller by the
name of René
Lalique...'
