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PEKING-TO-PARIS CLASSIC CAR, ENDURANCE RALLY

6/2/2013

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Dear Anglophiles:  If you are enamored by classic British automobiles and/or the "Golden Age of Travel," you may swoon, as I did, reading about the Fifth Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge.  This classic car, endurance rally, which traverses half the globe, first ran in 1907--before Peking was renamed "Beijing" and before the rise of the Communist state, which forbade contestants to drive through Soviet territories.  Amazingly, in this first race, contestants had no maps and drove mostly off-road!

The Peking-to-Paris rally resumed in 1997, a few years after the fall of Communism.  The current race boasts entrants from 26 nations and 96 vehicles, with a route taking the teams through China, Mongolia's Gobi Desert, Russia, Eastern Europe, and on to France.  The race "prize" is a bottle of champagne!  (And, of course, priceless adventures and great prestige!)

Most of the vehicles in this year's race were manufactured in either Britain or America--but many were produced in other countries too.  Click through the links below,  and you'll see Bentleys, Rolls Royces, Mercedes, Jaguars, Land Rovers--as well as Volvos, Porches, etc.

  • To see a map of the race's route, click HERE

  • To see the list of race participants, click HERE

  • To view the homepage of the Endurance Rally Association, which sponsors the race, click HERE

  • To see a Photo Gallery of the race, click HERE   

  • To read a Telegraph article about the race, click HERE


ALJAZEERA VIDEO: PEKING--PARIS

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VIDEO: ON THE ROAD IN BEIJING




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News Alerts for "Downton" and "Classic Brit Cars"

3/1/2013

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NEWS ALERTS!  Dear Anglophiles: I've received bits of news today that I must share. 

  • The very first images of Downton Abbey's Season 4 have emerged!  Click the link below to get the lowdown and to feast your eyes.  (Note: If you've not seen Season 3, this link is a spoiler; do not tread here.)
METRO: First Images of Downton Abbey, Season 4
  • British classic cars topped the famed Retro Race and Classic Car auction held in Silverstone, England, this weekend, pulling in more than £1.4 million.  (The "drool-mobiles" included a 1967 Aston Martin and a 1952 Land Rover.  Check out the article and photos!
GT SPIRIT: British Classic Cars Top Auction

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NEW BRITISH "SUPERCAR"

2/6/2013

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Think "electric car" is synonymous with "slow"?  Well, think again.  England's Bristol Car (now owned by Kamkorp Group) is set to manufacture an extended-range, electric, supercar that can reach 186 mph.  I don't think the price tag on these handmade jobs will be cheap, though.  If all goes as planned, Bristol will debut its supercar this summer at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, "the largest motoring garden party in the world."  

The festival runs this year from July 12-14.  If you're in London and want to zip down to Goodwood, it's an easy trip.  Take the train from London's Victoria Station to Goodwood (1 hour, 40 minutes; 60 miles southwest of London), then hail a taxi to the festival location.  The festival, on the gorgeous grounds of the Goodwood House, is replete with entertainment, fine dining, and the "biggest, best, fastest, loudest, and most outrageous vehicles of all time."  Oh, and you'll very likely run elbows with celebrities....    

  • To view a video about the Goodwood Festival of Speed, click HERE
  • To read a Motor Authority article about the Bristol supercar, click HERE
  • Wish to join the elite BRISTOL OWNERS CLUB?  Find used Bristols cars for sale HERE
  • For Goodwood Festival of Speed info (and to discover other exciting events held on the Greenwood grounds), click HERE

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THE HANSOM CAB

12/9/2012

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Call me old-fashioned, but I rue the day hansom cabs stopped being a form of public transport.  Reading Sherlock Holmes has ruined me on this count, making me wax romantically about hansom cabs far more than I reasonably should.  For example, during Victorian times, a woman riding in a hansom cab was quite scandalous.  (A carriage for two--Oh mon dieu!)  Proper ladies used the enclosed, four-seater carriage called a “landau.”  Yet, when reading Sherlock novels, I always imagine myself zipping around London in a hansom, which was much faster and more maneuverable than the cumbersome landau.  Weaving in and out of traffic in a forbidden carriage!  Ooh la la!  What fun!  Scandal in Bohemia!

In Victorian times, Londoners also had transportation choices of horse-drawn trams and horse-drawn buses, but if one were in a hurry—as Mr. Sherlock Holmes frequently was—the hansom cab was the way to go, if one could afford it.  The poor walked.  The mass-transit trams and buses provided the lowest fares, but amongst the private carriages one could hire, hansom cabs were cheaper than landaus because they required only one horse, thus lowering the carriage owner’s operating expenses.

Joseph Aloysius Hanson patented his cab design in 1834, billing the vehicle as a “safety cab” because the carriage’s center of gravity was lower than in other types of two-wheeled carriages and it had fewer accidents.  Londoners wanting to summon a hansom cab had several options.  One could prearrange with a cab driver to arrive at your door at a certain time.  Or, if a cab was nearby, one could simply shout for it.  If a cab was not nearby, one could pay a street urchin to run to the nearest stable or cabstand to fetch one.  Or, on a more fashionable note, one could purchase a cab-whistle and toot once for a four-wheeler or twice for a hansom.

Check out this video dated 1896 showing various forms of London transportation crossing Blackfriars Bridge—including jaunty hansom cabs!




Blackfriars Bridge, 1896
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A Morgan Roadster, in All Her Glory

10/8/2012

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Dear Anglophiles: I had to share the photos of this Morgan with you.  Gorgeous, isn't it?  I snapped the pictures in Central Park this summer.  The vehicle isn't for those who must be chauffeured like the Bellamys...no, it's for those who fearlessly don a British racing cap and take to the roads themselves!


Note: I do not know the year or model of this car--only the make, because the Morgan emblem is visible.  If anyone knows the other details, please let me know!

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