Celebration of the Motorcar 2016

The 2016 show expanded to include an additional display area within the beautiful grounds of the Cottesloe Civic Centre. The Vintage Sports Car Club presented a special feature display of historic racing cars dating back 100 years to celebrate their club’s 30th Anniversary. A 100 Years of BMW display was another feature this year.

A record 170 cars, including very rare cars such as Lamborghini, Bentley, Porsche, Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Aston Martin, Ferrari and more… In excess of $35 million worth, with several cars coming from the eastern states this year.

Plymouth Roadrunner

Renault row led by the very first Renault Type A

Renault Grand Prix replica

1899 Renault Type A. This revolutionary car from the dawn of the motoring era introduced the concept of the differential and gearbox. This car one of only 150 Type A's built and has just completed a two year restoration.

Alpine Renault

Modern and classic Ford Mustang

View down on the Renault row

Two British Marcos sports cars. Marcos used the a fibreglass body mounted over a traditional ash wood frame. http://www.marcos-eng.com/

TVR is another small British sportscar maker. http://tvr.co.uk/

1936 Alvis 4.3 Charlesworth coupe

50th anniversary limited edition McLaren. This car was the people's choice winner last year/

What's better than a Fiat Multipla? Two Fiat Multiplas!!

Robert Wagner and Natalie Woods' Corvette

Packard Hawk, which is pretty much a rebadged Studebaker Hawk.

1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom II with a coach-built body by Roger Fry. This car was debuted at the show and received the people's choice award.

Celebrating 100 years of BMW.

BMW Australia had intended to display a pre-war BMW 327 at the show but it wasn't running on the day. The display instead featured BMWs post-war range. This is a 1973 BMW 200Z wagon.

1972 BMW 3.0 CSL

The star of the BMW show in my opinion is this 1959 BMW 300 Isetta. After the war BMW found there was no market for their big cars and the whole automobile division was basically shut down. BMW rebuilt its fortune on its motorcycle range before moving into microcars. The Isetta was originally built by the Italian refrigerator company, Iso, but they struggled with capacity issues. BMW built the Isetta under license and turned it into a success.

1922 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost limousine

A duo of MGs

Rolls Royce section

1938 Rolls Royce 25/30 Sedanca de Ville

1942 Cadillac

1959 Cadillac

1953 Cadillac

Cadillac row

The Vintage Sports Car Club display www.vsccwa.com.au

Morgan



1935 'Bartlett Special.' Based on a 1927 Salmson

Ford based custom

MG racer



Ferrari

Ferrari Dino

Jaguar XJ section

Jaguar XK120

1929 Bentley

1929 Bentley

This is THE Le Mans winning Bentley of 1923. After winning the race it returned to England, was eventually sold and its record breaking history forgotten. The car was turned into station wagon and then left as a derelict in a shed in the UK. It was eventually purchased by Peter Briggs in 1989, restored and is now on display at the York Motor Museum.

Citroen SM

Citroen DS and Facel Vega

1953 Porsche 356 and Porsche 911s

Delorean

NSU Ro80

For more details, check the website: https://celebration.org.au/wa-next-show/

Tazio Nuvolari Exhibit, Prague Technical Museum

The National Technical Museum, Prague hosted an exhibition about the Italian Grand Prix driver, Tazio Nuvolari between June and September 2016. The exhibition was built around photos that Nuvolari had taken during his racing years.

Nuvolari started his career in motorcycle racing

A Bugatti like the one Nuvolari drove in the 1934 Monte Carlo rally. Behind the car is a photo of Nuvolari in an Auto-Union Type C and an Alfa Romeo.

Nuvolari and his Alfa Romeo

Throwing an Auto Union around the track in 1936

During one Grand Prix race for the Auto Union team Nuvolari hit a stag that ran out in front of his car. The stag was killed but Nuvolari managed to keep his car on the road. After the race he had the stag butchered and served to the team. Here he poses with the head.

One of Nuvolari's photographs of his Auto Union team mate, Bernd Rosemeyer. Rosemeyer was tragically killed attempting to break the world speed record in a streamlined Auto Union like this in 1938.

Nuvolari posing with another Alfa Romeo

1934 MG B

Auto Union overalls

Nuvolari's red leather racing helmet

Nuvolari's camera

One of Nuvolari's photos. Boys posing with a DKW

Nuvolari's widow, Carolina, photographed after his untimely death in 1953. In his obituary he was declared the greatest driver of past, present and future.

For more information about his life and career: http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/170759.html

Oldtimer Museum, Koprivince

Tourists generally come to Koprivnice for one reason - to visit the Tatra museum.  The Oldtimer Museum capitalizes on this traffic with a neat, small collection of old cars and motorcycles. Czech marques predominate as you'd expect but there are some international vehicles as well. http://www.automotomuzeum.cz/

An early model Tatra 57 and Tatra 49 triporter. The triporter is a reproduction as no originals survive. https://tatrat600.blogspot.com/2020/11/tatra-triporter.html

Tatra T49 tricycle with a sedan body. Check the Tatra Museum post for a view of the bare Tatra 49 chassis in their collection. https://tatrat600.blogspot.com/2020/09/tatra-museum-koprivince.html

A Czech Aero 30 cabriolet and Tatra T87. Both cars are contemporary with each other but the Tatra is light years ahead in design and styling. It's no wonder these cars caused a sensation when they were unveiled in 1936. https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2022/07/1936-aero-type-50.html

A Czetta 'Iron Pig' triporter beside a Tatra 603 engine.

Tatra row commencing with a Tatra 12, through the T57 to the Tatraplan

Tatra 57. Tatra's most popular car https://tatrat600.blogspot.com/2022/07/1939-tatra-t57b-brochure.html

Tatraplan T600

The Opel P4 was introduced in 1935 partly in response to Adolf Hitler's call for a 'people's car.' Hitler was furious that Opel presented such a conventional car and refused to budget on a purchase price one and half times more than the minimum price he had demanded. Opel were forced to drop all advertising mentioning the term 'people's car.' Although it is actually a small car it towers over the Opel sportster beside it. 

1969 Opel GT. A very American looking car.

Mercedes row

View towards the Tatras looking over a bare Tatra chassis

Maserati 3500 GTI

Hans Frank's 1938 Horch 830 BL. Frank was the Nazi governor of occupied Poland and drove this car as his official vehicle. After the war Frank was arrested, convicted of crimes against humanity at Nuremberg and hung.

Despite its history it remains a handsome car

Mercedes-Benz pontoon

Handsome BMW 327

Another very rare (obscure) marque - the Walter.

A French motorcyclette

The Czech Praga company built large, conventional cars for a few years during the inter-war years.

Some of the extensive motorcycle collection. Unfortunately many of the photos we took didn't really work out as the bikes were parked very close together against the windows. Here though we can see a Dutch Nimbus in the middle of this display.

The museum is only a short walk from the Tatra museum and well worth a visit. There is now (2022) a second Tatra museum in Koprivnice - the Tatra Truck museum in the old grounds of the Tatra plant. All three museums are worth visiting.

Oldtimer Museum, Štefánikova 220/24, 742 21 Kopřivnice 1
https://www.automotomuzeum.cz/