Once a year, Brighton gets invaded by veteran cars, that is, cars built before 1905. This is the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. These vehicles are celebrating the legalising of running a car on public roads (1896). They are wonderful pieces of engineering history. I picked up the story as they came through Brighton (I'm too lazy to go further out to meet them.) and took these pictures as I wandered down to the seafront. On the way, I came across a distressed Napier, with bonnet removed, its crew hoping to make it go the last half mile...