
Category: Classic Car Technology


Windscreen Washer
A 1950s Chevrolet windscreen washer reservoir and pump. In concert with their technical sophistication the sheer velocity of early automobiles increased at a rapid rate, so much so that even […]

Station Wagons
A Holden EK station sedan badge. Now largely displaced by the ubiquitous SUV the station wagon, or station sedan as the early Holden variants were known, was once the go […]

GM Tissue Box
An original 1950s Chevrolet “Auto-Serv” tissue dispenser. Optional accessories have long been a popular way of inexpensively enhancing the features of a base model automobile, especially in the U.S market. […]

Peugeot 504
An Autobooks Peugeot 504 owners workshop manual. In today’s automotive market there exist many individual models that have been produced for a number of years, even decades, by a particular […]

Zenith Carburettors
A vintage Zenith carburettor switch unit. The development of a device for mixing air and fuel to power internal combustion engines significantly predates the first practical automobiles by almost 80 […]

Personal Steering Wheel
A 1970’s Alfa Romeo steering wheel by Personal. The early development of the motor car saw many innovations that would set the automotive standard for all subsequent designs, although some […]

C1 Corvette
A C1 Corvette battery/oil gauge instrument cluster. Although it is now referred to as ‘America’s Sports Car’ the first Chevrolet Corvette model (Officially known as as the C1) was not […]

Ford Model T
With over 15 million examples produced from 1908 to 1927 the Ford Model T has gone down in automotive history as the vehicle that provided average wage earning Americans (and […]

Bleriot Lights
Lighting the way for early motorists, French entrepreneur Louis Bleriot developed the first practical automobile headlights in the late 19th century. Powered by acetylene gas (produced via the reaction of […]