Wednesday, November 15, 2023

not many people have a super cool classic in their family history, fewer are ever able to find it again (80 years in this case) and buy it.



Malcolm Stern with his dad's 1930 Sunbeam Talbot-Darracq 80 years ago and now

Malcolm's father sold it in 1942. The decades passed, and it became a family tale. Then in 2020, a 91-year-old Malcolm looked up the car online.

In a few clicks, he found a listing for a Talbot-Darracq — with a recent photo. It was still in one piece, and the license plate matched the one in their family photos. It was going on auction in a few weeks’ time.

Malcolm and his son Jonathan purchased the nearly century-old car for around $8,000 and began a refurbishment project that lasted three years. Last week, the Talbot-Darracq — complete with a new yellow paint job — hit the road again, capping the unlikely restoration of the Sterns’ family treasure.


Mr Stern said his son will inherit the car, passing it on to a third generation of the family.

Jonathan Stern said: "Dad's been working on this for such a long time and he's just such a stubborn and obstinate guy so there was no way that this was ever not going to happen - and he just made it happen.

"To see it come full circle from it being a wreck to something that we could reliably drive... is testament to the incredible amount of work my dad has put in."

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