Sir,<\/p>\n
I enjoyed your Ghost Story very much in the October issue of Motor Sport, I also enjoyed very much the excellent pictures of Mr. Southall’s 40\/50 Tourer 89 AE.<\/p>\n
What brings thiS letter is that I have also a 40\/50 Tourer by Kellner of Paris, which is also a 1920 car from the same series as 89 AE: 32 AE. Also, like Mr. Southall, I bought the car from the original owner, Mrs. Ganna Walska MacCormick, in 1967. The car had been laid up a little before the last war near Paris and never used afterwards.<\/p>\n
The car hadn’t done a lot of miles but almost 30 years of immobility has led to the necessity for a complete overhaul which is being done right now. When it’s finished I’d love to pay a visit with 32 AE to Mr. Southall.<\/p>\n
But this is not the end of the story. The year .after I bought 32 AE, in other words in 1968, a very good friend of mine, also in France, bought another 1920 40\/50 from the original owner, Mr. Viguier from Paris. This is 85 CW with a Muhlbachcr 3-position landaulet. The car was well maintained during these 48 years by the owner who in between drove many later Rolls up to a 1967 Silver Shadow. This car is totally original but is not being driven pending a looksee into the engine just to make sure everything is in order.<\/p>\n
Up to the 2nd war France was full of 40\/50s as well as Phantoms but the metal scarcity during the war saw to the disappearance of many.<\/p>\n
I also bought from the same original owner at the same time, -another 40\/50, this time a Landaulet New Phantom, 40 SC, which I have disposed of since then. The body on this car had suffered from dampness because of a leaking roof hut the New Phantom had covered very few miles when I bought it.<\/p>\n
With my congratulations for your excellent magazine.<\/p>\n
Paris 16 JESS G. POURRET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,51709,190,64241],"issue_decade":[121607],"issue_year":[121652],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/26002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/26002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251736,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/26002\/revisions\/251736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26002"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=26002"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=26002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}