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Does this count...? :D
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HisMastersVoice wrote:Does this count...? :D
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Is that you in the picture?
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Josephine Baker with her very fast & very expensive Delage d6-7 in 1935...
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Curt A wrote:Josephine Baker with her very fast & very expensive Delage d6-7 in 1935...
You could go over a hundred miles an hour in that boat. How, I don't know.
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epigramophone wrote:It is thought that Caruso never learned to drive, but this did not stop him clowning around for the camera. I think the car which he is pretending to start may be a Packard.
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Yes, that is a Packard... mid-Teens. If it is a Twin-Six ( V-12 ), no wonder Enrico is straining... ;)


( Funny - his stance at the front of the car is not unlike the famous press photo of him from Pagliacci: bending over at the waist and beating a large bass-drum... )
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Nellie Melba with her Daimler. The chain drive indicates a pre-1910 model.

Melba is said to have been interested in cars and sometimes drove herself. She owned, amongst other makes, a Stanley Steamer which is rumoured to have survived into preservation.
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Victrolaboy wrote:
HisMastersVoice wrote:Does this count...? :D
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Yes, this was at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, MI last summer. :D
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John McCormack with his Rolls-Royce Phantom II outside HMV's Abbey Road Studios, about 1931. To the left are Fred Gaisberg and Rex Palmer.

I don't know the name of the chauffeur, but he needs to do something about that bald front tyre......
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Note how non-driving Tom had Mina & little Theodore at the controls !
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Curt A wrote:Josephine Baker with her very fast & very expensive Delage d6-7 in 1935...
One of the rare photos of Ms. Baker fully clothed....without bananas. ;)
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