Clearance sale! Pictures taken on May 1, 2022. All last year’s images have to go out the door. Just have your free pic(k)s, no warranty or refunds. No further written information today either, I just let the old cars and trucks speak for themselves. Hey! Ho! Lets’s go!
The Citroen DS never fails to amaze me. Even though the original design dates back to before most of the other cars in this post, it looks less dated than any of them.
The red DS, the Double Six and the Magirus-Deutz drop side please.
The DAF 44 looks good and still capable to easy use in town, and when did you last see an Alfetta 1.6?
Great selection!
I have a soft spot for those Opel Kadetts.
The s/w really brought back memories.
The 510 and the Stag for me please.
What a great selection of wonderful cars.
I’d take the bright green Dodge Charger in the first and last photos ( minus the wide rear tires that stick out beyond the rear fenders).
I agree with JPC…those Opel Kadetts look better to me all of the time. They were fascinating to me in the early 70s at the Buick dealer, and no small part of that was the fact that a few did make it to this country in cool colors like that bright lime green. (unfortunately they also as I recall sometimes came with vinyl roofs)
One of my inlaws had a Kadett wagon of that vintage. I recall seeing a small number of wagons back then. I also recall that even then, rust was a pretty serious problem. So it’s really refreshing to see a nice clean one like your example.
The Kadett gen D (the brown car with license plate HZ-14-FS) was also the first FWD Opel ever. The one I caught looks like a hatchback, but it isn’t.
DS, but you knew that already..
In the first pic; What’s the bright yellow car? Resembles a “90’s era Chev Cavalier”, with some “mods”.
Also, the little red “ride” next to the “Porsche”, anyone know what that is?
t/y
Yellow: 1982 Opel Manta B2 (= second gen Manta, post May 1982 facelift). Some serious “mods”, indeed…
Red: 1968 Datsun 1000.
“82” huh? Got to look for pics of an actual unaltered one. Thanks.
Looks like its fitted with a replica Manta 400 bodykit, one of opels forays into group B rallying
I do have a soft spot for stock ones, particularly the coupe version plus the MK1 Vauxhall Cavalier fastback and coupe, which were virtually identical, but oddly much rarer, i guess GM thought the more exotic (for the UK) Opel Badge would sell more cars or something,
The early 80s was a bit of an odd era for that, as both opel and vauxhall badged versions of certain cars were sold here.. no idea why
According to its registration, the 1982 Manta is powered by a 3.0 liter, 6-cylinder engine. Let’s call it a Manta Irmscher i300 tribute car!
Is that a BMW 2002 Bauer targa cabriolet hiding behind the square headlamp SAAB 96?
Yes. Same location and event, 2017 edition:
I’ll take the Alvis, please. A nice plus is the old original Dutch registration, proof the car has been delivered new in the Netherlands.
For me the standout is the little red Datsun 1000. I haven’t seen one for about 30 years. And the yellow Mazda 929 coupe. The green Charger is nice to look at, but not me. And the Alvis is so unexpected.
I’ve never seen an Alfetta with single headlights before; is this some base model?
Yes, the Alfetta 1.6 base model came with single headlights.
Great pics Johannes, looks like a thoroughly enjoyable day…
What a wonderful and varied selection. My picks of the lot:
1. Alvis TA21 saloon [looks like a Bentley Mk VI from the front].
2. Messerschmitt
3. Green MAN truck
4. BMW 3.0 CSI
5. Citroen DS
6. Citroen 2CV
Some great choices Bill, but you’re mixing up the MAN Ponton-Kurzhauber with the Magirus-Deutz Rundhauber 🙂
A splendid show; I’m always impressed at how cars in European car shows are almost invariably so meticulously original. “NOS” indeed. American car shows are…different, to say the least.
Isn’t the originality typically a requirement to register old cars as “classics” and thus avoid prohibitive taxes and fees? (I’d hate to pay road tax on a ’59 Cadillac or a 440 Charger on a CO2 emissions basis.)
Speaking for the UK only (but I suspect much of Europe is similar), we don’t have a registration category for “classic” or “historic” as some places do. Yes, for sufficiently old cars (40 yrs+ IIRC), there is an exemption from the annual MoT road worthiness inspection and vehicle excise duty (road tax), and obviously limited mileage insurance and so on, but the registration just records an older car, not an “historic” one. MoT check aside, the same requirements around identity, insurance and actual on-the-day road worthiness.
I’d be tempted to suggest 2 factors driving this – modifying a car in the UK is much harder to accomplish from a registration and insurance perspective than I understand it to be in the US. It is possible to put a Jaguar engine and rear suspension into a Marina, but the consequent admin with the registration and cost of insurance would deter all but the most dedicated if they wanted to use it on the road
The other is that a significant part of the classic community is also a nostalgia community – wanting a car like Dad’s, Grandad’s, my first car, the car I wanted when I was 14 etc, which wasn’t a Lincoln Versailles crossed with a pick up. This inevitably leads to a UK brand bias as well.
Regarding the 59 Cadillac and 440 Charger, the UK road tax rates are complex and ever changing but are driven by the date of registration and build, not the emissions now. Cars of that age would be in a flat rate band, unless they were over 40 yrs old (IIRC) when the charge drops off.
Depends on which country in Europe, I guess. Here in NL: older than 40 years is tax free, older than 50 years means no tech/safety inspection (“APK”) every two years any longer.
When I still had my ’69 Plymouth, I just drove to the guys at the nearby Toyota dealership for that inspection. Everything had to work properly (like brakes, lights, wipers) and they checked the car’s overall condition on a vehicle lift (mainly suspension, tires, exhaust, fuel and brake lines, no severe rust).
No emissions check whatsoever and nobody was even remotely interested in “originality”.
Nice selection of cars there, and some rather interesting rarities.. the ascona cabrio for one.. sold as a vauxhall here, not many of them around, can only think of three ive seen in the metal, one of those being in a junkyard in the early 00 (which was the first tiem i became aware of them
The brown Kadett saloon (yes its not a hatch despite the shape.. the hatch came a few years later) brings back memories as the first car i can remember my parents owning was a Brick red/orange one that was a 5 door hatchback though
Roger Carr’s Vauxhall Cavalier convertible article:
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc-outtake/curbside-outtake-1987-vauxhall-cavalier-1-8i-convertible-open-roof-open-minds/
1. DAF 66
2. DS (either one… or both!)
3. Tin Snail
4. Daimler Double Six (isn’t that a Jag-u-err?)
If I stick around any longer, I’ll probably have to pick more…