Earlier this week in the PostWarClassic.com magazine...

As always, we had some fine features in this week’s PostWarClassic.com magazine. We have summarized it in today’s newsletter. Enjoy your Sunday!

 

The above pictured watch was built by the German brand Laco. Watch experts gave it the nickname ‘Beobachtungsuhr’ or B-uhr’. The term ‘Flieger’ was a better description for this type of watch due to its purpose. Of course the English called it differently, a so called ‘observers watch’.

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Peak Performance

The Panhard Dyna X Saloon was a strange-looking little car, but it was exceptionally well engineered. It was therefore sensible of Panhard to supply rolling frames to other companies to equip with their own bodies, which were typically of a sporting nature and impishly pretty.

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Happy Halloween 2018!

This gentleman would be happy to sell you a pumpkin from his International Harvester (was there ever a more suitable name for a vehicle to use during these days?), and then it's up to you to make something suitable from it. 

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Car of the Week: Bertone Fiat 1400 Saint-Leger

We love uncommon and unfamiliar model names here at PostWarClassic and have to admit the Saint-Leger was a new one to us. What it is? Well, it is in fact a model line created by Bertone in the early 1950s for a range of Fiat 1400 cars.

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Friday barrel ladies

In our part of the world, the word ‘barrel’ refers to an old banger, which seems pretty much out of tune here. So what exactly is a barrel contest? Was the prize originally perhaps a barrel of wine, whisky or something else alcoholic?

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About Tough to Crack Car Puzzle #195: 1961 Plymouth Asymmetrica

Having a new PreWar quiz and PostWar puzzle every week is quite a hard task and therefore we are very happy that we made a new partnership with our friends at AutoPuzzles.com. Many of you might know it as it is the world's largest index of rare cars. Really rare cars.