Vintage Cars Research Articles

Cost-Benefit Analysis of converting vintage cars into EVs in India

Overview The following research paper attempts to analyses the viability of retrofitting old car models to electric cars in India. The increasing global problem of climate change and the developments in the area of electric cars make the concept of rebirth of old cars into EV’s a perfect marriage of youth into age. India with its tradition of having presence of vintage cars from quite some time can quite rightly wish for such a change. As it is this research aims to gather what one stands to gain both financially and non-financially by converting old model cars to EVs, PHEVs some of the questions included are; feasibility of the idea, cost, and its market. Purpose and objectives of the study The primary objective of this work is to provide the systematic analysis of the potential costs for the implementation of the change of the old generation vehicles to the electric propulsion system with regard to the initial capital outlay and recurrent costs and subsidies in India. Thus, the study seeks to also determine the prisms that underpin, the benefits in such conversion in terms of; Environmental gains for instance emission of carbon, economical gain such as cost of fuel, and the; social gain which is conservation of vintage cars. In this paper therefore, the authors endeavor to provide what they hope will be a useful analysis of the cost and issues involved in retrofitting old cars to make them electrically propelled, with a view to helping owners, businesses and governance institutions to make the right decision regarding this innovation. Its objectives are to find out if the benefits of environmental and economic nature will outweigh the costs and whether there is a market for remanufactured old model electric cars. Besides, this work will examine the factors that may be thought to slow this trend in the future such as technicalities, law demands and customers’ perceptions. This research assumes importance especially at this time in relation to India where there has been earlier association with cars of certain years of manufacture and especially the government to support its desire to champion massive usage of EV to tackle problems of pollution and use of fossil fuel. Therefore, this study will also contribute to the existing discussion on the gap of increasing the shares of sustainable transportation keeping the historic vehicles intact. The results could also include directions for the policymakers and the automobile enthusiasts who wishing to proceed with the change over from classic autos to electric automobiles as a possible and viable process.

When He's Not Researching and Treating CNS Infectious Diseases, This Journal Editor Is Collecting—Everything from Vintage Cars to Pinball Machines

When He's Not Researching and Treating CNS Infectious Diseases, This Journal Editor Is Collecting—Everything from Vintage Cars to Pinball Machines

A Review of Automotive Spare-Part Reconstruction Based on Additive Manufacturing

In the Industry 4.0 scenario, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies play a fundamental role in the automotive field, even in more traditional sectors such as the restoration of vintage cars. Car manufacturers and restorers benefit from a digital production workflow to reproduce spare parts that are no longer available on the market, starting with original components, even if they are damaged. This review focuses on this market niche that, due to its growing importance in terms of applications and related industries, can be a significant demonstrator of future trends in the automotive supply chain. Through selected case studies and industrial applications, this study analyses the implications of AM from multiple perspectives. Firstly, various types of AM processes are used, although some are predominant due to their cost-effectiveness and, therefore, their better accessibility and wide diffusion. In some applications, AM is used as an intermediate process to develop production equipment (so-called rapid tooling), with further implications in the digitalisation of conventional primary technologies and the entire production process. Secondly, the additive process allows for on-demand, one-off, or small-batch production. Finally, the ever-growing variety of spare parts introduces new problems and challenges, generating constant opportunities to improve the finish and performance of parts, as well as the types of processes and materials, sometimes directly involving AM solution providers.

Observation: Setting the Foundation for Creativity and Innovation.

Observation: Setting the Foundation for Creativity and Innovation.

The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson

Reviews 181 The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910. By Stephen Johnson. London: Faber & Faber, 2020. 314 pp. Paperback £10.99. ISBN 978–0-571–36752–8. The premiere of the Eighth Symphony at Munich’s Musik-Festhalle in September 1910 brought Mahler the greatest success of his life. Opened in 1908, this cavernous space now forms the ‘Verkehrszentrum’ of the Deutsches Museum and hosts a collection of vintage buses, trams and cars. Given Mahler’s love of the unpredictable and paradoxical, this development might well have appealed to him. Within nine months of the concert, however, the composer was dead. Thomas Mann, who had witnessed the triumph, was so shaken by the composer’s untimely death that Gustav von Aschenbach, the tragic artist in Der Tod in Venedig (1912), not only resembles Mahler physically, but even bears his forename. In this innovative study Stephen Johnson writes as both musicologist and cultural historian, championing what is probably Mahler’s most popular symphony but also his most critically contested. Completed in 1906, this twomovement choral work was to be the last piece premiered in Mahler’s lifetime. Dubbed the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ because of the vast forces deployed at the premiere (858 singers, 171 instrumentalists), this work in its opening movement sets the hymn Veni, creator spiritus, attributed to the ninth-century German monk Rabanus Maurus. The second movement sets the final scene of Goethe’s Faust II. The ‘true connection’ between these very disparate halves is the driving force of love, both Platonic and physical: ‘In the words of the ancient Latin hymn Mahler had read the message that had evidently struck Goethe too: fired by love, real erotic love rather than some disembodied ideal, we too can follow Socrates and scale the Heavens’ (p. 45). By 1910, however, Mahler’s world had been shaken to its core. In 1907 his infant daughter Maria had died; shortly afterwards, he escaped Vienna for New York, only to be diagnosed there with severe coronary disease. On top of this, his wife Alma was sleeping with the architect Walter Gropius, the composer’s junior by twenty years. In despair, just days before the Munich concert, Mahler met with Sigmund Freud who concluded he was suffering from a ‘Holy Mary complex (mother fixation)’. As Freud’s pupil Theodor Reik observed, ‘this will come as no surprise to anyone who knows Part II of the Eighth Symphony’ (p. 277). Johnson’s examination of Mahler’s private catastrophe and public acclaim is searching and sympathetic. The examination of the Eighth’s genesis and purport is followed by a rigorous defence of the Tenth Symphony left incomplete on Mahler’s death. Once more, Johnson reveals the autobiographical impulse of the music, stressing the interplay between the composition and its creator’s attempts to regain his wife’s affections. Near the end of the score, he despairingly inscribed the manuscript with the dedication ‘Für dich leben! Für dich sterben! Almschi!’ [To live for you! To die for you! Almschi!]. The symphony remained unperformed for fifty years, until Alma sanctioned its performance in versions prepared by various Reviews 182 musicologists. Dismissing conductors who reject these versions as unauthentic, Johnson insists that there is far more genuine Mahler here ‘than there is genuine Mozart in Mozart’s fragmentary Requiem’, performed across the world in Süssmayr’s pastiche completion (p. 245). The seminal chapter ‘Questions of Identity’ opens by citing Mahler’s famous remark (as reported by Alma) that he was thrice homeless — as a Bohemian in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world: ‘Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed’ (p. 145). Proceeding from this cri de cœur, Johnson examines the composer’s relationship with pan-German identity and culture, the status of Vienna in particular within that culture, and the city’s strained relationship with its Jewish community. This chapter reveals the range of Johnson’s research and his ability to synthesize complex non-musical issues in accessible prose. An additional pleasure of this study is the author’s skill in conveying how music works and sounds in language comprehensible to nonspecialists . Given that The Eighth is so generously indexed...

Vintage Car. The Beginnings of Czech Motoring in the Film

In the mid-1950s, a unique film called Dědecek automobil (Vintage car) was born in Czechoslovak cinema. The film was based on the eponymous model by the writer Adolf Branald and Alfred Radok became the director. The film is dedicated to the beginnings of Czech motoring in the first decade of the 20th century. The processing combining the genre of documentary and feature film is also unique for the period of its creation. Thanks to the love liaison that culminates in the marriage of the Czech car fitter and the French girl, the film also acquires a poetic dimension. Part of the story of the film takes place at car races in France, which opened the way for the participation of French actors, unusual for the 1950s. However, the filming took place exclusively in the Czech Republic. The acceptance by Czechoslovak film critics was embarrassing after all the film deviated significantly from the period works. He aroused even more interest abroad. At the San Sebastian Film Festival in 1957, he placed second and won the Film Critics Award. The text is largely based on contemporary literature, memoirs, and materials stored in the National Film Archive.

A Leap Forward at Toad Hall: David Ferry’s Seasonal Veteran and Vintage Cars in Colour


 
 
 The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame, is the fictional frame for this discussion on David Ferry’s altered book and print series Seasonal Veteran and Vintage Cars in Colour (2017- 2018). Grahame’s character, Toad, is obsessed with the motor car. Toad’s disturbance of the rural scene is married with Ferry’s practice of inserting photographic additions – mischievous intrusions – from hobbyist ‘donor’ books in to discarded pictorial guidebooks of the British Isles. Ferry’s photomontages and prints from the late 1980s on, which comment on the British heritage industry, are the wider context for this essay.
 For Seasonal Veteran and Vintage Cars in Colour, Ferry overlaid the ‘host’ picture book of museum vehicles from the collection of a wealthy aristocrat, with bright, exuberant flora from gardening books, thus obscuring the ‘intruders’ by greening over their presence. The paper proposes that these photomontages are a response to the inevitable redundancy of technology, and concludes that modern innovations are eventually co-opted by traditional conservative values. This argument is constructed using three protagonists: Futurist, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti as advocate of modernity; John, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, as motoring pioneer; and Kenneth Grahame as establishment figure.
 
 

Purchase and registration of a vintage car in the Polish legal system

The scientific article is about vintage vehicles in the Polish legal system. The article mainly shows the lack of a precise definition of a historic vehicle in any of the legal acts. Moreover it shows how to buy such a vehicle, the advantages and disadvantages of owning it. The second part of the article only describes the procedure for registering a historic vehicle. In practice, this is a different process than for other cars. In Poland, it is recognized as expensive, time-consuming and complicated, which in many cases is effective as a warning to owners of vehicles qualifying as historic. Keywords: Vintage Car; Historic Vehicle; Registration

The Story of the Markham Car Collection: A Cross-Platform Panoramic Tour of Contested Heritage

In this article, we share our experiences of using digital technologies and various media to present historical narratives of a museum object collection aiming to provide an engaging experience on multiple platforms. Based on P. Joseph’s article, Dawson presented multiple interpretations and historical views of the Markham car collection across various platforms using multimedia resources. Through her creative production, she explored how to use cylindrical panoramas and rich media to offer new ways of telling the controversial story of the contested heritage of a museum’s veteran and vintage car collection. The production’s usability was investigated involving five experts before it was published online and the general users’ experience was investigated. In this article, we present an important component of findings which indicates that virtual panorama tours featuring multimedia elements could be successful in attracting new audiences and that using this type of storytelling technique can be effective in the museum sector. The storyteller panorama tour presented here may stimulate GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) professionals to think of new approaches, implement new strategies or services to engage their audiences more effectively. The research may ameliorate the education of future professionals as well.

John Leask Lumley: Whither Turbulence?

John Lumley's contributions to the theory, modeling, and experiments on turbulent flows played a seminal role in the advancement of our understanding of this subject in the second half of the twentieth century. We discuss John's career and his personal style, including his love and deep knowledge of vintage wine and vintage cars. His intellectual contributions range from abstract theory to applied engineering. Here we discuss some of his major advances, focusing on second-order modeling, proper orthogonal decomposition, path-breaking experiments, research on geophysical turbulence, and important contributions to the understanding of drag reduction. John Lumley was also an influential teacher whose books and films have molded generations of students. These and other aspects of his professional career are described.

The Rolt Memorial Lecture 2015: Defining the Vintage Car: L.T.C. Rolt, the Vintage Sports Car Club and the Rise of Motoring Heritage

This paper examines the role played by the engineering historian, biographer and pioneer of canal and railway preservation, L.T.C. Rolt, in the development of an appreciation of motoring heritage. It concentrates on his involvement with the Vintage Sports Car Club in the 1930s, in which he played a key role in defining what a vintage car was. It examines the way in which this helped develop many of the themes that ran throughout his writing and gave him the practical skills needed in his later campaigning for the preservation of industrial heritage.It also looks at the way in which Rolt's views on the car's impact mirror those held by others, and at the difficulties this posed to someone who was passionate about engineering and yet was horrified by the consequences of industrialisation. His advocacy of the vintage car was the beginning of his lifelong campaign to uphold craftsmanship and skills and to commemorate the role of the engineer and the craftsman in Britain.

The Coronet—Leslie Forsyte

This case and its companion, Coronet—Cameron Baker (UVA-QA-0763), are intended for undergraduate, executive education, and MBA audiences. They were written for a Bargaining and Negotiating elective. This case is from the perspective of Leslie Forsyte, the founder of a vintage car restoration company. Forsyte's current project—the restoration of a 1970 Dodge Super Bee—only requires doors in order to be completed. After months of searching, Forsyte has finally found an ad for a 1970 Dodge Coronet, a car possessing doors that match the Super Bee's. Excerpt UVA-QA-0764 Rev. Apr. 27, 2012 The Coronet—Leslie Forsyte As the founder of Vintage Motor Car Ltd. (VMC), Leslie Forsyte had over the past decade built a thriving business in rebuilding vintage automobiles and motorcycles. VMC had earned a national reputation for expertise in restoring 1970s-era high-performance American “muscle” cars. A current project was the restoration of one of the most unusual cars of the 70s: a 1970 Dodge Super Bee with a powerful “hemi” engine. Fully restored, this car would easily bring $ 110,000 at one of the annual specialty car auctions, such as Barrett-Jackson or Pebble Beach Automotive Week. VMC had all the original body parts for the Super Bee except the two front doors with window glass. For six months, VMC had been searching unsuccessfully for reasonably priced original equipment manufacturer (OEM) doors. It seemed as if they didn't exist. As the project dragged on, the client had become increasingly anxious because she wanted to show the car at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance car show next month. Reproduction doors and windows were available at a cost of $ 3,500. Because they were not OEM, however, they would most likely devalue the car by at least $ 10,000. So far, the client had not been open to accepting reproduction doors. Coronets in very good condition were occasionally listed from $ 5,000 to $ 8,000 on classic-car websites. At the moment, there was one available for $ 7,250. Forsyte hated the thought of buying the whole car just to get the doors, and transporting it from several states away would be expensive. VMC had $ 15,000 invested in the project, not to mention its reputation and a prestigious client on the line. The Super Bee project had to be completed in the weeks ahead, and the doors were the only impediment. Although the Super Bee had the same body panels as a Dodge Charger, Plymouth Road Runner, and Dodge Coronet, months of reading nationally published classic-car classified ads, checking local auto classifieds online, and scouring the newspapers from all over the state had not produced any doors that matched the Super Bee's. . . .

Design for Local Cultural Activities about Vintage Car Fastival

Design for Local Cultural Activities about Vintage Car Fastival

Accounting for Changes in Automobile Gasoline Consumption in Japan: 2000–2007

This paper analyzes gasoline consumption in Japan for the period 2000–2007 using the index decomposition analysis (IDA). The changes in gasoline consumption in Japan were attributed to five factors: (1) change in the annual average driving distance of new and vintage cars, (2) change in the market share of new passenger cars, (3) change in the total number of new passenger cars, (4) change in the fuel economy of new passenger cars, and (5) change in the stock of vintage cars. We used the IDA results to estimate the economy-wide direct rebound effect, where improved fuel mileage causes additional travel. We found that the total gasoline saved by shifting from vintage ordinary passenger cars to both new kei passenger cars and new hybrid cars during fiscal 2006–2007 amounted to 395 ML, while about half of the gasoline savings from car replacement were lost by the direct rebound effects. The analysis shows that the direct rebound effect can be crucial in the effort of reducing overall gasoline consumption as well as household CO2 emissions from passenger cars. JEL Classification: Q41, Q43.

HIV, prayer, and vintage cars: Danny Douek talks shop.

If a scientist is defined as a person who acquires knowledge methodologically, Douek fits the bill in every way.

“If you can walk down the street and recognise the difference between cast iron and wrought iron, the world is altogether a better place”: Being Enthusiastic about Industrial Archaeology

“If you can walk down the street and recognise the difference between cast iron and wrought iron, the world is altogether a better place”: Being Enthusiastic about Industrial Archaeology

Moving Electric Transportation Forward: The Many Faces of Electric Vehicles

First-time attendees to classic car shows are frequently surprised to see vintage electric cars tucked in among the Model T’s and A’s [...]

Doing things of value [profile of Sir John Chisholm

Sir John Chisholm, the IEE's 2005/6 President, is a firm believer in the importance of realising the economic potential of scientific discoveries and enjoys a formidable reputation as a business strategist. His career started in the motor industry with Vauxhaul, where his research on control engineering got him into computers. Sir John then joined Scicon, a computer consultancy wholly owned by BP, where he thrived for a time, but when it became clear that BP was not interested in what he was doing, he left to set up CAP Scientific. When this company became 90% French owned, Sir John became a civil servant, taking responsibility for the bulk of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) research establishments as head of the Defence Research Agency (DRA). Sir John played a prominent part in reforming government procurement strategies and was involved in the creation of agencies such as DERA (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) in 1995 and, in 2001, QinetiQ. The article concludes by looking at his principal hobby, vintage car racing.

A Double-Edged Longing: Nostalgia, Melodrama, and Todd Haynes's Far from Heaven

Six minutes into Todd Haynes’s film Far From Heaven, the fragility of the domestic facade (of a harmonious, loving family) becomes obvious as the supposedly per­ fect, happy wife Cathy Whittaker receives a phone call from the police informing her that her husband is at the station (picked up, we later learn, for “loitering”). But we expected as much. From the film’s opening frames, Far From Heaven's satu­ rated “technicolor” palette, its mournful yet resolute full-orchestra soundtrack, its gleaming vintage cars, spotless sets, and well-starched costumes all point to the film’s reconstitution of a particular past, a re-presentation that relies on our cin­ ematic knowledge. We recognize the narrative and mise-en-scene as intertextual, as generally drawing on a past representational style that includes most Hollywood film productions from the 1950s. For those audience members in the know, the film has a more specific intertext in its recreation of the “woman’s weepie” (Singer 37), a melodramatic mode characterized by female protagonists forced to bear heartache, betrayal, prejudice, and other great injustices. Reproducing cinematic melodrama, particularly the “woman’s” domestic melo­ drama that reached its apotheosis in the work of Douglas Sirk, is a hazardous move, fraught with the usual dangers of reconstituting past forms (audience confusion and rejection, accusations of derivative filmmaking) and the added risk of trivialization stemming from the marginalized socio-historical position of the genre. As Christine Gledhill explains, “the relative invisibility of melodrama today is due to the rise of realism as a touchstone of cultural worth and to its ghettoisation as a Amelia DeFalco is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto working on aging and the uncanny in contemporary literature and film.

Secondary data — the Poor Relative of Business Continuity

Cable & Wireless Plc acquired Exodus on the 1st February 2002. You think you’ve got BCP covered because you take regular backups and store them safely off site and perhaps even encrypt them … Think again. There is a whole plethora of devices and programs that facilitate your users accessing that data after you have dutifully restored it from your backup medium of choice. These facilitators contain secondary data and this data needs backing up and security measures as well, otherwise your primary data will resemble a newly restored vintage car: great looks, but no leaded gasoline available to run on.