Classic Cars

By pure chance I came across a classic car auction during my walk this morning - and what's more I arrived there in a bout of lovely sunshine in between heavy showers. For a few moments I was in car/camera heaven!

Choosing my blip was tricky but I particularly liked this radiator mascot on a goegeous old Packard Super 8 so that's my main blip. No way am I knowledgeable about such cars so I looked it up - it was made in a variety of body styles in Detroit between 1933 and 1939 (and unsurprisingly it has 8 cylinders).

In the extras is a photo showing the Packard behind a fabulous Studebaker, which Google Lens tells me is a Special 6 Model E, made in South Bend, Indiana between 1918 and 1927. The 2nd extra is the radiator mascot of the Studebaker.

Somehow I don't think either of the radiator mascots would pass modern health & Safety legislation but they are rather grand!

(Covid update: My Editor is still sneezing and coughing but no worse...and I'm still negative on this morning's lateral flow test. Statistically I'm not out of the wood yet!)