14 Jul AFTERMARKET

The replies received to last month’s newsletter’s picture query were all correct in indentifying the out-of-shape car taking part in the May 1930 Muldersdrift Hillclimb as a Salmson. This month while searching through some auto archive material that had been donated to me, I stumbled across this photo of this Baur-bodied Auto Union F7 Meisterklasse Coupé. Question is, does anyone know of its whereabouts? And as a final ‘smiley’, how about this 1967 ad for Shelby GT road cars? The point trying to be made is about safe performance and the pay-off line is “Suddenly, everything you (and your wife) ever wanted in a car is here!” These days it is all about SUVs. How times have changed… MM