Well, here is our Invicta Type-A (high chassis) from 1929.  It has a Meadows 4.5 litre engine, with lots of torque.  My dad was a stylist at Chrysler for many years, and after working on the interior of the Plymouth Barracuda and some other cars he was "volunteered" to go to Chrysler's operations in Europe:  first for 6 months at Simca, and then for 4 1/2 years at Rootes in Coventry, UK.  While there, he went to an auction for "something British" since he'd left his '36 Ford Coupe back stateside, and ended up with this car.  It wasn't something that he'd really heard of before, but he liked the lines of the car (ironically, the car company didn't do bodies or interiors, and that was all done by a "bespoke" coachbuilder called the Carlton Carriage Company.).     Over time, we met other owners at meets in the UK, learning more about the marque and its place in British automotive history.  But I was only 9 at the time, so I was more interested driving around with my dad, and seeing the countryside.  Eventually, we moved back to the Detroit area, ready to finally restore the car, but family and economics got in the way (coming back after the oil crisis, surviving the Iacocca years at Chrysler, etc), and so it laid in pieces in a garage for 20 years.  But once he retired, he started the restoration project in earnest, and put it together with a good eye for the car's design.  Unfortunately his eyes started giving out on him after a couple of strokes, and he (reluctantly) passed the car on to my family.  These days, I try to get out as much as I can with my kids (who are all home now, staying safe), so they can have the same kind of memories to share as I had from my dad and our time in England. Side profiles Before Restoration Front view ... View more