Building a car for Concours D’elegance Events – Car Insurance From Enthusiast
Preparing a car for top-level concours d’elegance display has been described as the most excruciating form of masochism ever devised. To onlookers, the cars so perfectly presented for judging are in ‘showroom’ condition. In reality they take even the most exacting of manufacturers’ standards to new heights. Some concours exponents will say that the best […]
History of.. Relationship Between Music & Cars – Car Insurance From Enthusiast
Ever since radios were fitted to cars back in the 1930s, music and motor vehicles have played a role in each other’s existence. FM radio came to vehicles in 1952, followed during the 1960s by tape players and William Lear’s 8-Track cartridge, then CD stackers, MP3 interfaces and Spotify. The sounds coming out of these […]
Muscle Car – 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase 3 – Car Insurance From Enthusiast
It isn’t often that a car of any kind makes the evening news or gets several minutes of coverage on a range of current affairs programmes. However, it also isn’t every day that a car made in Australia sells for more than $1 million ($1,030,000 to be exact) or comes with fascinating history including links […]
History Of Colours and Cars – You can have any colour, so long as it is black – Car Insurance From Enthusiast
Did Henry Ford really say that his customers could have a Model T in any colour so long as it was black? Well, not exactly and although a lot if the 15 million Ford T Model’s sold were black the most successful car of its era did come in other colours. However, the man who […]
Cars – Classic vs Modern Classic vs Vintage – Car Insurance From Enthusiast
Readers who have been around since the 1970s or before will have witnessed continual movements in the value of vehicles we today know as ‘classics’. Before 1960, older cars would be described as ‘vintage’ or maybe ‘antique’. The term ‘classic’ didn’t become common until used in the titles of books and motoring magazines that catered […]
What is considered a Sports Car – Car Insurance From Enthusiast
Most dictionaries disagree or simply do not try to define the ‘sports car’. One which accepted the challenge was the Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring penned by motoring authority and trained engineer Pedr Davis. Under the heading ‘Sports Car’ Davis summarised the concept as: “Vehicle in which the design philosophy is to concentrate on performance, road […]
History of Australian Car Industry – Pre and Post 1948 – Car Insurance From Enthusiast
Some people think that Australia’s automotive industry dates from 1948 when the first Holden was built. Not so. Australia began making motor vehicles when the Nation was still a conglomerate of British colonies. One of our automotive pioneers was Victorian Herbert Thomson, who in 1900 drove his steam-powered ‘horseless carriage’ from Sydney to Melbourne. History […]
What is a Vintage Car & Getting Insurance – Enthusiast
No one alive today will have owned a vintage-era car from brand new and very few would remember even riding in a new car built before 1930. That’s the internationally acknowledged cut-off year for a vehicle to be designated ‘Vintage’. Even more exclusive are Veteran models which need to have been built before 1 January […]
Importing a Car From Overseas & Getting Insurance – Enthusiast
One of the loneliest places on Earth is a Customs compound at the far end of a windswept wharf where the Personal Import cars sit in cages like lost dogs awaiting collection by their owners, As a valuer of vehicles that first turned a wheel in disparate parts of the planet I have seen all […]
Insuring Modified Cars & What you need to know – Enthusiast
You can hear it in the voices of car owners whose attempts to complete an on-line quote have been foiled by an ominous message popping onto the screen. Usually it will read something like; ‘Vehicle Does Not Meet Underwriting Requirements, Please Contact Insurer’ and translate into ‘We Don’t Want Your Hot-Rod Here’. If the company […]