Yes, Frazer Nash were an important part of the BMW story, along with Bristol, particularly in the immediate post-WWII period. BMW assets in the Soviet zone (in Eisenach) were used to produce EMWs but Munich was part of the American zone - by rights then, the BMW assets there should have found their way to the US. Somehow or other, though, AFN and Bristol representatives managed to squirrel away enough to be producing BMW-based cars long before BMW themselves were able to resume production.

The DNA links are obvious, particularly in the case of that first Bristol, the 400:

Frazer Nash also put their stamp on the imported cars, amending the BMW roundel to suit:

Shows how things often come full circle - BMW began by building the British Austin Seven under licence (increasingly modified through the Deutsche Ausführung (German versions) DA1 through 4), then Bristol are able to start up by building barely disguised BMW 328s through schematics and parts seized as war reparations. And it wasn't just those that were taken, Frazer Nash even took on BMW's chief engineer Fritz Fiedler, though he later returned to Munich. Many of the cars whose photos I posted were made on his watch, from the 328 to the 507.

Now, posting images is easy once you know how. First step is to get them from your PC to an image host, as Chronocentric doesn't host them itself. There are plenty of third-party sites that let you do this for free - I use Imageshack ( www.imageshack.us ). I wouldn't use Flickr as they make it way too obscure as to which link you are supposed to use to get the image on a forum in a decent size, but other people may prefer them.

But let's assume you're going to use Imageshack. On the initial screen, you'll see a field entitled "Upload" with a "Browse" button to the right. Click on browse and navigate to where the picture you want to use is on your PC. When the image name appears in the Upload field, click the big "Upload now" button. After a bit, the upload will finish and Imageshack will provide you with a bunch of links. The one you want is called "Direct link" on Imageshack. Ignore all the fields that say they are something to do with forums! Right click on that field and copy the link.

Now, over on the Chronocentric forum, ignore the Optional Image URL field. You can use it, but it limits you to one image in the post and you can't control where it appears. Instead, paste your copied link directly into your text. Now highlight the whole link (left-click, hold and drag or triple left-click) and then press the button second from the right on the tool bar below the "Subject:" line, that looks like a picture frame. That's it, though you may want to preview to check!

That's all assuming the picture you want to post is on your PC. If it's already on the net in some form you can right-click it and "copy image location" (in Firefox, I forget what it's called in IE now but it will be something similar) and skip straight to the paragraph above.

Easy, honest! Give it a try and use preview instead of post to make sure you're happy first - it will show your post exactly as it will look once posted.