Scans from wartime Autocar: more added, page 2

[Fat_Pirate]

Here are a few scans from a 1944 Autocar magazine; not standard Autoshite fare, but I reckon of some interest:

 

 

A long way from a modern front cover (typically 'SHOCK NEW BMW!' or similar overblown bollocks); defiance, maybe a little desperation within the text?

 

The magazine is pretty thin; there's some wistfully written articles on pre-war motorsport and foreign trips, and adverts from car companies promising new models when manufacturing can resume. That'll be good news for this old goat and his gold-digging new missus!

 

 

Bit of sticking it to Fritz in this one...

 

 

And some barely legible classifieds:

 

 

I've got more if anybody is interested, a 1943, 1948 and 1954. Cost me all of £2 from Beaulieu Autojumble!

[rml2345]

That is some pretty fascinating stuff.

Thanks for sharing.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Fabulous stuff. We want MOAR!!!11!1!One

[Negative Creep]

Any VWs for sale?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Rumour has it that the Opel Blitz was very popular at the time!

[Spiny Norman]

Love seeing these old magazine scans.

[Tayne]

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[ashmicro]

Cheers for that FP. I didn't know Schrader went back that far (they have a factory a couple of miles from me)

[Negative Creep]

What would £1095 (1944 pounds) be worth today?

I'm trying to figure out if that Bugatti Type 57 is a bargain or not.

 

And yes, more please.

 

£39,244.10. So yes, that's a bargain

[messerschmitt owner]

I'd have the type 23 at £185 too

[messerschmitt owner]

Mind you, the 1932 Bentley 4.5 litre sports tourer at £225 seems reasonable too.

[Ross_K]

I can imagine the Wolseley owner coming back from a Jap POW camp after the war, only to find his missus has wrecked his car Fast Show-style.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39qdhbkTko4

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I have four Autocars from 1945, and they're wonderful. I'd buy more if they weren't so pricey. It's utterly fascinating to read a car magazine from a time when you couldn't buy a car for love nor money, and full of ads like that Lanchester one for cars they aren't even selling.

 

One of them has a wonderful thing about driving in fog. I'll have to dig it out.

[Shep Shepherd]

Genuinely fascinating

 

Has anyone got any wartime copies of Practical Motorist? I'm sure that they are as equally fascinating, if not more so.

[Negative Creep]

Interesting to note the optimism regarding the end of the war, even though this was before the Normandy Landings

[DSdriver]

The Delco ad made me grin. Oh and the reg no. on the Wolseley would suit a certain Biturbo owning shite hero.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That indecipherable classified ad format survived into the 70s. I wonder why they clung to it.

[messerschmitt owner]

Genuinely fascinating

 

Has anyone got any wartime copies of Practical Motorist? I'm sure that they are as equally fascinating, if not more so.

Practical Motorist started IIRC in 1954, as I had a set of the first issues of it - Volume six is 1960 so it sounds like it makes sense that my date is correct.

I guess the wartime issues must be VIetnam war period or the Algerian conflict, or maybe an Arab-Israeli conflict ...

[Fat_Pirate]

Few more pages from the same issue:

 

 

 

 

 

1943 coming soon...

[Negative Creep]

I wonder what the readership would have thought if you old them that in 60 years the Germans and Japanese dominate world car sales and we wouldn't have a since volume car maker?