ANTIQUEXPLORER MAGAZINE AUTOMOBILIA BROOKLANDS LALIQUE

For many automobilia collectors, BROOKLANDS Motor Car Racetrack has a special nostalgic appeal By Margaret G Powling .

'Brands Hatch. Le Mans. Nurburgring. Jack Brabham. Stirling Moss. Michael Schumacher. Names which send a frisson down the spines of motor racing aficionados. And then there is Brooklands. Ahh, Brooklands (in a whisper of nostalgia, as if saying, “Ahh, Bisto...”). For Brooklands really is in pole position when it comes to the giants of motor Racing...'

OIL CHIC: Innovative, imaginative advertising ideas from SHELL By Andrew Leston.

'Feathered and furred, web-toed and hoofed, long tailed and snub muzzled, the multitude of animal figures that poured out in an exuberance of creativity from the Austrian bronze workshops from the 1850s onwards would have had Noah scratching his head as he puzzled how to fit them all into his ark...'

Classic cars have never been so popular.

'There's no doubt about it, the classic car world is enjoying something of a boom at the moment. Scarcely a week goes by without a new world record price being set at one auction or another, especially in America where muscle cars from the late 1960s and early 1970s have gone absolutely ballistic recently. Spectacular evidence of this trend came in May this year when a 1969 Dodge Charger that had starred in an episode of the 1980s TV series 'The Dukes of Hazzard' was sold at auction for a staggering $9.9 million. ...'

Fuelled by passion; Clare Blake meets Barry Burnett, a man whose boyhood dreams became a reality.

'How does a collection start, What plants the seed? For Barry Burnett as a 12 year old, it was the sight of a sleek gleaming 1930s D8S Delage in a garage, an unusual French car from a company renowned for high quality design and manufacture with consummate perfectionist Louis Delage at the helm...'

Lalique CAR MASCOTS By Mike Penn.

'Amongst automobilia collectors the most common to be found is that of the mascot collector. Car mascots have been individualising their owner’s mounts for over 100 years and have been produced in all sorts of differing forms from evil imps to beautiful young ladies and from fleas to elephants. They can be bought cheaply or you can sink tens of thousands of pounds for a single mascot. The expensive end of this market has been cornered by the work of a French jeweller by the name of René Lalique...'