PASSE MOTOR-CARS
RACE FOR "OLD CROCKS'^
(British Official Wiroless.) RUGBY, November 18. The annual London to Brighton 'Old Crocks' race for motor-cars over 30 years old attracted 99 entries yesterday and 68 of these completed the course.
The winner was a 33-years-old Napier. Its owner first purchased the car in 1902, but sold it six years later. Two years ago lie rescued it from a rubbish heap in Kent. In yesterday's race it attained a speed of 50 miles an hour. The oldest car in the race was a Connstatt Daimler, built in 1894.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 11
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94PASSE MOTOR-CARS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 11
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