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August Motor Journal is published as always on the first Friday of the month (August 1, 2025).
Traditionally, the Miscellaneous News section mainly focuses on May anniversaries with dates ending in 5. We commemorate personalities, races, car shows, news, and new books.
The first car and motorcycle hill climb race Zbraslav–Jíloviště was held in 1908. A total of 14 years have been held, the last in 1931. The first major race has been organized by the Veteran Car Club Prague since 1968, which organizes regularity races for historic vehicles on a preserved section of the track. This year there have been several changes, we talked about them with the new event director, Jan Živný.
Stará Kruhovka in Sedlec near Kutná Hora is a former brickyard (kruhovka) and a former drying house. Despite construction interventions during the socialist economy, the building has retained the character of an industrial building from the end of the 19th century. Today it is a museum of historic vehicles, operated by a well-known figure in Czech motoring. Francis Bauer and his colleague Lukáš Hejný.
Many motor vehicle manufacturers started with bicycles and moved on to cars via motorcycles. But for Sunbeam, cars came into being much earlier than motorcycles. If you had asked any schoolboy in Britain in the mid-1920s what car they dreamed of, it would probably have been a Sunbeam or Bentley.
Auction hall RM Sotheby's has prepared 64 cars for sale on July 8th at the luxurious Cliveden House Hotel in Berkshire, about a 40-minute drive west of London. The offering was unusually attractive, and the auction house was able to report 80 percent of the lots sold that evening. However, most of the cars sold for under a hundred thousand pounds, while the most expensive cars remained unsold.
A calendar of events, private and commercial advertising, that's the content of the last pages of this year's fifth issue of Motor Journal.
