Pics for Weasel and 130rapid:



It was absolutely funny, to stand besides and listen to the people around, who are guessing in the strangest way, what a car it shall be "It looks like a Simca" ... "Naah, it's a Buick or something else American" ... (just heard at the 2 minutes, I was standing there, from those people:



But these idiotic comments are not typical for such rare cars. Every owner alwys has to hear sich bullshit. Although you may think, that classic car events were usually visited by people with knowledge. no way. Not even at events with very high entrance fees, like the Techno Classica. Idiots are everywhere around, and at weekend-events it's much worse on Sunday than on Saturday.

The owner's son of this vehicle has only said "I cannot count all the stupid bullshit, I had to hear only today. But it's not better on other days or at other events"




It's a later conversion, the actual owner has bought it in this condition in England. He has more Reliants at home, mainly bought in Belgium.

Oh nearly forgotten, one more pic for rjluna2. An US-spec version without the US-specific parts.

For walter:

A bit for dsl:

Did you tell them what it is (I mean the Warszawa)?

Interesting event - unique cars like for the German reality, but Audi 200 motorhome is a sad view. Except if it was in really poor condition before the "transformation".

For wickey.

A terrible clunker. A "Presto-Bomber" as its worst, there were centners of fillers smeared on an in this car.

Oh, no. Discussions with clueless morons are useless. This would have been neccessary a few hundred times there, about many other cars, too. We "Early Birds" (the RO 80 next to my car belongs a club-fellow) had the chance for that even after a few minutes after arrival at 7:20 in the morning, when this pic was made.



My suggestion is for such events: to stand among the visitors and don't let them know, that you are belonging to the car or the exhibtion stand. Just a few minutes are enough to learn incredible novelties and old secrets...

SUPERB photos, thank you very much!!!

I bet you have a blast at your weekend galore

I can actually see the sun baked paint around the missing plate

I see you did retain these Italian indicators

Did you have to switch these lighting stuff before you went to TÜV inspection

Thanks. Nice Vogue in horrible colour, and the Elf is always a pretty car, even with wide (Cooper S?) wheels. Both never sold in D AFAIK, also RHD so maybe ex-UK.

- well, I only made pics of the vehicles, which are unusal sights, not the common stuff of which thousands (3000 classic cars were expected, it could have been more, because already at 10:00 on Saturday all classic car parking spaces were filled) have filled the areal. You find mainly bread-an-butter-cars there, not many high priced classic - which is very nice, as there are too many events, which are cluttered up with Pagodas, 911, Big Healeys, E-Types etc. Sure, some were there, but in acceptable amounts. Mercedes (W120, W110, W114/115) are common there -in the past it was partly a Mercedes-meeting- also Opel, VW, Audi, DKW, some tractors, Unimogs, Hanomag AL 28 etc. (it's countryside there) and, as it was the local hero around there, a lot of Borgward-products.

About the Audi 200-camper there's one thing irritating - it has a historic plate, with the "H" at the end. If there was no wheeling and dealing with the TÜV and the authority, there must have been an original. The regulations are saying, that you can get a H-plate for cars, older than 30 years, which are in respectable original condition or if they have some conversions or exchanged bigger bits (engine for example), these conversions have to be made in the past, or if later made, according an original, which had existed over 30 years ago.

Oh sure. As mentioned here http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=11354 I even have a remark "white indicator lenses with orange bulbs" in the papers. Because the TÜV-engineer was a clown back then. His colleague, two years later at the next inspection, only has said "I don't bother, if the lense or the bulb is orange. Only the indicator has to flash orange"

Thanks, but it wasn't a big effort. Just snapshots while strolling along the dealer's stands and scanning their offers

P.S. No Lateef-cars there at all. Lateef-cars are undesired there.
Not younger than 1980 have the cars to be, for entering the area. It's free then, for a classic car with max.2 passengers.
Back in the 90ies there was no problem with a 70ies-car, so sometimes not even 20 years old, but back then it was a much smaller event. And there are too many surviving Lateef-cars, plus more older classics, so they got space-problems. And the many people are happy, not to see plastic-bumper-cars there.

But one car from Lateef-country was there:




Oh, there's annother pic for dsl:



And a plate for dsl:




Why wear these fellows warn-jackets?



Simple reason: that real connaisseurs can keep their distance: http://www.asian-car-club.de/html/fahrzeuge.html

Seriously, when I was a schoolboy and have saved money for my first own car, I though about this precious item:




Painful cobblework

Sorry rjluna2, but I didn't took my camera to the office today (I never do that). So there are no pics of the mechanics with a crane-truck, who have removed the large neon-sign from the top of our office-building.
No, it wasn't a worse sign for a bankrupcy , they had to do that, because it was a construction -sorry, no idea, what one exactly- which causes the danger to burn. It happend with the similar sign on annother of our buildings. Maybe I can find pics in the net of that incident.


Later on I've seen a kind of asshole-driver on the Autobahn (Audi A6 Avant), from the company with the quite rjluna2-affine name www.licht.nl

That is okay, ingo I'm sure that I have to image how heavy the neon sign that the crane is needed to take it down.

Thanks for the party/studio lighting stuff. I'm sure there are other member in the www.lighting-gallery.net web site would have a field on their day