Well after nearly 25 years the 1912 Vieux Charles has burst into life again. It was towed around to the banking by the BA tug and then after several pushes by the tug it roared into lif. Sadly that was just after I had to leave so I missed the flames coming out of the exhaust and the clouds of smoke - by all accounts it was very dramatic !. Not too surprising for a 98 year old 15 litre car with just four cylinders. The pictures below show it being towed round to the banking and tthe first few attempts where it did attempt it did attempt to fire up in fits of spluttering.

A couple more pics

you can keep your MG’s,  gotta love these big engined old cars

I’ve seen some video of the VC fiing up on someones phone and there was a huge amount of smoke !  Not sure if I can get it on here though :-(

is this car going to be around on the auto-jumble day ? i’d love to see it , i thought my cylinders were big at just over 2 litres each, but those are over 3 1/2 litres, fast revving it ain’t !!  they knew how to make them big in the old days.

It should be at the Museum - not sure if it will be on display though. It’s currently at Festival of Speed in the Brooklands marquee where we’ve now put it to sleep for the night - be there for the next four days if you’re passing.