vintage car Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/vintage-car/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 01 May 2026 09:27:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang commemoration reunion https://mechtraveller.com/2023/05/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-commemoration-reunion/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/05/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-commemoration-reunion/#respond Thu, 18 May 2023 13:33:38 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8948 In the 55th anniversary year of the much-loved film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, two of the vehicles that starred in the film are due to return to one of the filming locations as part of a commemoration service for Sally Ann Howes, who played Truly Scrumptious. On Sunday 21st May 2023, both a reconstruction Chitty […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/10/review-the-museum-of-the-24-hours-of-le-mans/feed/ 0 Riga Motor Museum, Latvia https://mechtraveller.com/2018/02/riga-motor-museum-latvia/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/02/riga-motor-museum-latvia/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:35:01 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3006 Soviet leaders and Pollitt Bureau chiefs had the luxury of travelling around the USSR in style whilst the rest of population were lucky to have any petrol powered transport at their beck and call. Now a fine collection of vehicles from that Communist rule era makes up an important part of a modern motor transport […]

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