Sorry guys, but I only had the chance (due time and the huge amount of cars), to select, what could be interested to make pics of. So I decided to take some to enjoy some of you.
The dozen's of cars for sale were boring, as I've seen. Only masses of Mercedes Cabrios, like Pagoda's an W107, lots or Porsches and new high performance-cars. Very much US-imports (due the weak $), and many dealers from Holland, Belgium an Britain, who offered mostly pre-war-cars (except the Benzes and Porsches), often British makes. There were even cars, imported from Down Under and Argentina.
I didn't make a closer look to the "Best of Show"-exhibition (many of them were for sale, too), because I don't have any relation to high-exclusive millionair's-cars from the 30ies.


@Animatronixx: No hearses. I thought, the two hearses, I've seen there are known by you. The Nilsson-Volvo at the Queerlenker's and the Japanese (Toyota Crown?) at the Hearse-Club.

There is a little bit non-French, too





Even a little bit German stuff. I even haven't photographed the Veritas with a special handmade body.
If walter is interested, have a few Audi-pics, too, but no time right now to put them here.



They had been there, too

nice
you did not include the 505 posted on the site itself

The wheels of the CX do not seem to be of the same era as the car

O.k., here are the Peugeot-prototype-pics:
http://www.bilderspace.de/bild.php/11377,img2936jpgQVTAE.jpg

http://www.bilderspace.de/bild.php/11378,img2935jpg75XHS.jpg

Hmm, the old pics are broken, buit if neccessary, maybe I still have them somewhere.

I'm lifting up this thread although it's 5 years old, because I hate it, to clutter forums up with annoying masses of too many threads.

Plus the perception, that my introducing-text from 2010 is still adequate. This year I've been there only for one day, but the impressions are still the same.
It became even worse! The Techno Classica is mutated to a show and sales market for terribly overpriced cars. And the masses of ridicoulous-priced-car-dealers have the reult, that less and less clubs (for those the place is free) participate. And there are less and less dealers for new and used original spare parts, displaced by too many rim-chromaters, leather-seat-makers and high-price-car-polish-sellers.

So you only can use this event for making and intensify your contacts inside the scene and making photos. To buy anything, you can forget. The only things, I have found for me, were two K 70-brochures (rare, but I already own them), but the seller, a wangler from Brussels didn't accept my price.

I have purchased only one thing - the original Volkswagen-Currywurst!
No kidding, it's original from the VW-internal caterer for the German plants. The employees like it, so it became wider popular - yes it has an own original VW-spare-parts-number!!
Btw.: this food, a Currywurst with Pommes Frites/French Fries and Mayonnaise, is the No.1 canteen-meal all around in Germany.







I start with my today's shock experience
After I'd strolled though the most of the 14 halls, I really thought "Hihi, Europe's biggest classic car event with over 150.000 visitors and not any Rootes-crap anywhere, except some single brochures for sale. But then I got a deep shock!







I was that paralysed, that it took some minutes to notice the real interesting bits at the club-stand of
http://sunbeamtreffen.oyla18.de/cgi-bin/hpm_homepage.cgi









When I asked the Sunbeam-freaks, how many Imps they have in their club, they said "Just two. We are exclusively focussed on Alpine and Tiger, any other Rootes-cars are just exotic gimmicks. But among our Spanish and Belgian fellas there some hardcore-Imp-ists"
They also said, that they are not really familiar with all details of the Rootes-history. One Alpine-owner said "Once I've seen on a meeting in Britain three Imps standing side-by-side. A Hillman, a Sunbeam and a Singer - I couldn't recognize any difference!"



































There is a German "Sapo"-Club- didn't know that!

For rjluna2 (left on the frontscreen)

Abandoned since 1987:

















With Wankel-engine:





That's all for this night. Tomorrow I will continue with the pain-in-the-ass-motivs: the cars for sale. Pain-in-the-ass, because the idocy became annoying

Four million years of evolution, and someone still can't separate Imp brands .......

Current data lean towards 7 million years

Nice Velar



Was this the one with the incredibly low mileage? I remember reading about that one.

77.000km in 2005
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/cars/rover/metro100/car-of-the-month-august-2005/
, not that incredibly low.



A propos "incredibly", a good transition to the offers at the Techno Classica. I've only made a few pics - at least ALL offers there are increbible overpriced. But well, "every morning an idiots gets up", as we say in Germany.
And it's not a secret, that at the event there are a plenty of very ver rich people, which must get rid of money somehow for indifferent reasons, so they don't bother about correct prices.

The most offers I did ignore, because after beeing annoyed I was just bored about all that shit and all the shitheads of dealers


9.250€






7.890€




100.000€ plus 19% import-tax because a Norwegian car



The Norwegian bloke has several more 911 for sale, all in this price-category, this one, too:




25.000€




6.750€ IIRC






14.700€ because the rare 1978 "Champagne Edition" - and it's a real clunker, had had a closer look.






70.000€






59.000€ - and it's just the poverty-spec 3.5! Plus 19% import-tax, because a Serbian car




Even for a basic 280 S [W108] an idiot announced 25.900€. No photo of it, as also not from the Opel Kadett B for 11.800€ (no, not a Sprint or a Coupé, just a basic 1971' two-door)


A 6.9 for only 17.000€ - but you smell the filler being 5 meters away




149.900€







38.900€




19.900€




49.900€




49.000€







1971 911T (no.29 of 583 made), the one and only left over in absolute original condition from the 1st owner (Californoin plate "Kirk A) - 125.000€





1st owner was James Cagney, for that reason 69.000€





Prices on request:












This one, too (DDR-papers and Trabant-engine)






These were already sold:












At last a perfect example for good and sophisticated taste (not for sale):

I can't picture an old James Cagney in a VW Camper. They say he drove to Woodstock with it. (At age 70??)

What is this car? A Bristol?

Jensen 541

Thanks!

I should have checked the hood emblem a little more
Apparently only 226 Jensen 541 ("standard" and Deluxe) were made from 1954 to 1959 (plus some more R and S models).

I made this pic just because of the old-style plte, but a plate-fellow pointed out that the 288 GTO is a very rare car:




I must admit, that I've ignored on that event 99% of the high-price- and prewar-cars. The masses of them bored me that much.
























45.000€




11.800€





25.900€




13.900€