13 May 2012

Cupa Carpatilor 1935 / Carpathia Trophy, 1935

Recent pe eBay s-a licitat o medalie pentru Cupa Carpatilor, eveniment desfasurat la Sinaia in 1935. Bogdan Coconoiu a mai scris despre acest eveniment si a prezentat programul. Din pacate, desi am licitat, am ratat ocazia: se pare ca erau mai multi pasionati si sper ca a ajuns in mana unui alt iubitor de istoria auto din Romania. Oricum, pozele raman. De remarcat ca masina e identica cu cea din brosura. E greu de spus ce marca ar fi, dar parerea me e ca seamana destul de mult cu un Lincoln 1933 sau 1934, o masina care iesise in evidenta in concursul de eleganta Sinaia din 1934.
Recently, eBay auctioned a medal for the Carpathia Trophy, which took place in Sinaia in 1935. Bogdan Coconoiu has already written about this event and presented the brochure. Unfortunately I was outbid in the last seconds; clearly there were other people keen to have it, and I hope it was bought by another fan of Romanian motoring history. We still have the photos, however. Interestinly the car is the same as the one on the brochure. It's perhaps useless to speculate as to the make, but I think it looks pretty similar to a 1933 or 1934 Lincoln - one of which was a star at the previous year's Concours d'Elegance.

1 May 2012

Reprezentanta Lincoln de pe Take Ionescu / The Bucharest Lincoln dealership

In perioada interbelica, pe bulevardul Tache Ionescu (actualmente Magheru) din Bucuresti se gaseau o mare parte din reprezentanele marcilor serioase. Una din cele mai ravnite era Lincoln, marca cea mai de elita a gamei Ford. Poza facuta de Willy Pragher in 1937 e relativ cunoscuta, celelalte nu. Oricum, e clar ca magazinul Lincoln, situat la intersecita Balcescu / Rosetti, era una din bijuteriile Bucurestiului art-deco. Ma intreba daca peste 70 de ani vor fi publicate poze cu dealerii de lux din Otopeni sau Baneasa...
In Thirties Bucharest, on Tache Ionescu Boulevard (now Magheru Boulevard) most of the main car showrooms could be found. One of the most luxurious of those was that of the top-of-the-range Fird-woned Lincoln. Willy Pragher's 1937 photograph is well-known, the others less so, but what is clear is that the Lincoln showroom, at the corner of Balcescu and Rosetti boulevards, was one of the jewels of art-deco Bucharest. I wonder if in seventy years' time people will be publishing photos of today's luxury showrooms in Otopeni or Baneasa...