Last Thursday, before the start of the Spyker board-meeting, chairman Victor Muller unvealed a painting of the 1922 Spyker record-car. The painting was made by a Dutch artist whose work we have featured before on PreWarCar. With this Spyker C4 the Australian racing driver S.F. Edge set a 24-hour record in July 1922 at Brooklands. Edge wanted to show that he could improve his own record from 1907, but not with a specially prepared racing car, but with a stand production car, which this Spyker in fact was. Edge drove a total of 2.867,2 kilometers in two times twelve hours -The Double Twelve- with an average speed of 119,5 km/u.

April 25, 2010