tours

Finished! The final car of the six different marques that took part in the 1923 French Grand Prix at Tours. Possibly a bit of an anti-climax if you believe in saving the best to last. I saved it until last because when I first started researching these cars there was almost no information...

Number five of the 1923 Tours cars, only one more to go. Another one that has very little technical information available so expect lots of guessing, both educated and uneducated. It was given a whacking great airplane engine after it's short Grand Prix career and still survives today as the...

THE car of the 1923 season, without the characteristic unreliability that nearly all cars of that era suffered from it probably would've won every race. It was the first supercharged car to compete in a major Grand Prix although apparently a 1.5 litre FIAT in a minor regional race beat it to the...