3/26/2023 0 Comments Definition of antetype![]() ![]() In the eyes of that school, then, 1931 will be a vintage year in the annals of the Whatsit factory. What, on the other hand, does exist is a substantial school of thought which, perhaps perversely and irrationally, insists on preferring, say, the 1931 Whatsit to its 1939 antetype. If we take ‘cult’ to mean an articulate and vocal body of opinion, then, obviously, no such thing exists as the motor cycling vintage cult. Where is the motor cycling vintage cult, if any? What were the vintage years of our industry? How, in your own mind, would you define a vintage motor cycle? Upon which particular models would you confer the title ‘vintage’? The 1923 Vauxhall 30-98, 900lbs lighter than a Bentley with similar power, a car worth of cult status. A Vintagent is a citizen who turns misty-eyed and maudlin in the presence of a 30-98 Vauxhall, reaches instinctively for a bell, book, and P.100 Lucas at the sight of a sibilating soft-sprung roadster, and hangs admiringly upon Mr Forrest Lycett’s Bentleygyrics in the dear-sir columns of The Autocar, a collection of despatches which, if piled one on top of another, would make a smashing bonfire. Its members, an ardent and disdainful body of men, style themselves Vintagents. 16 1943 edition of The Motor Cycle – By Dennis May In the car world they have a thing called the vintage cult. ![]() The original article in The Motor Cycle, illustrated with 8 machines, six of which your editor has owned…being a Vintagent himself apparently. Vintagent – wither the term? It was in currency in the 1930s in British automotive publications, and as noted in the following article there were already clubs formed to promote the reputations of automobiles of certain eras as ‘vintage’ – defined in Webster’s dictionary as “adj: of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance, or quality.” The term begs the question, what machinery qualifies? In the motorcycle world, Vintagents were late to the scene, as noted in the article reproduced below, which is the first mention of the term Vintagent as applied to motorcyclists: all credit to staff writer Dennis May. ![]()
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