Perth Classic Car Show - Sunday 8th September 2024

The Classic Car Show is Perth’s premier classic motoring event, bringing together over 100 of WA’s finest motoring clubs for a display of classic cars, trucks, buses, and motorcycles.

From the latest sports supercars, through to wooden wheeled veterans, there will be more than a century of motoring heritage on display at this family friendly event.

Check out the new and improved website for more details: https://classiccarshow.com.au/

Flying the black flag of the KBG - Land Rover Mk 1, Honda ???, BMW R90

Part of the KBG display - left to right - Suzuki Carry, Nissan Pao and Mini Minor.



Czechoslovakia corner - Czeta scooter, Skoda Octavia and Tatra T600

Dodge Interceptor

MG B and Austin Healey 3000

A rare Holden variant - the Holden Overlander four-wheel drive. There were two at the show



Renault Caravelle

Renault Alpine A110

Citroen Traction Avant

Renault Caravelle

Messerschmitt Kabine scooters

Cadillac row

1932 Cadillac

1934 Triumph Gloria Speed Tourer

1970 Marcos GT V6

1937 Rolls-Royce

Holden Club

MG Club

Land Rover Club

Cadillac

Rambler Club

Triumph Car Club

1962 Ariel Leader and Arrow Brochure

Classic Cars and Coffee - Sunday 1st September 2024

It's almost here......Spring has almost sprung! The team at CC and C are very much looking forward to this Sunday's event with a great array of new classics and rare modern cars expected. Remember that from this Sunday and through all of Spring, Summer and Autumn we are reverting back to our normal hours of 8:30 - 10:30am.

After the incredibly busy August Classic Cars and Coffee (I couldn't even get in), September proved a quiet event. It was nice to be able to enter without queuing and get a parking spot. It was the Karmann Ghia's turn to attend.

A rather spectacular Bentley

A true rarity in Perth - Danny E's ZAZ

And another Soviet masterpiece - Lada Niva

1929 Hupmobile

Messerschmitt KR201

HDR Vincent

A Czechoslovakian masterpiece - Czeta "Iron Pig." This example was assembled in New Zealand as the NZeta.

Malvern Star moped

Ford



Volvo jeep

Big Jim rocking the NZeta

Renault 4CV

Kleinschnittger F250

The desperate need for cheap transport in war devastated Europe encouraged many small companies to develop 'microcars', small, simple vehicles affordable to people of limited means. Some of these machines went on to great success and fame, such the Messerschmitt Kabine scooter and the BMW Isetta, but a great many of these vehicles were poorly made and did not last particularly long. Kleinschnittger of Arnsberg, West Germany unveiled their contribution to this trend in 1950. The F250 was a very small two-seater roadster powered by a Jlo-250cc single cylinder two-stroke motor delivering 5.5 horsepower. Bodywork consisted of aluminium panels pressed over a steel spaceframe. This meant the little F250 was very light at only 150 kilograms empty. Light weight was important as the car had no reverse gear. To reverse or get out of a tight parking spot, a carry handle was attached to the rear body so that the driver could lift the rear end and manhandle the car onto the driving direction. Simple! Such a basic vehicle could have been quickly dispatched into oblivion, but the F250 was sufficiently sporty looking to find a market. It would be produced for five years, from 1950 to 1955, after which sales plummeted to a few dozen a year. The company would continue selling the backlog of machines for a further two years before going bankrupt in 1957. Approximately 3000 examples were sold.



A bilingual German and English brochure.



An American write up from Popular Mechanics. It's very doubtful any US customers would have been interested in this novelty.
More info: https://www.kleinschnittger-info.de/ausgabe.html