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Classic Remise Dusseldorf


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Classic Remise Dusseldorf is a classic car centre.It's housed in a former locomotive roundhouse in the suburbs of Dusseldorf.It's not a museum but is a place where you can buy classics from a number of dealers.There are showrooms for new Morgans,Donkervoorts(a sort of copy of the Lotus 7 with added developments),and some other retro makes.Another lot of tenants are restorers,coach trimmers and workshops.They will also store your car in one of a 2 storey row of glass boxes..

The centre of the roundhouse where the turntable used to be is the main dealer display area.There's also a good cafe next to it.Around the outside of one side of the display are the glass storage boxes.The next outer ring is a walkway big enough to drive a car around.The last outer ring is the showrooms,shops and workshops.On top of them is a gallery you can walk along with cars displayed along it.There is a similar establishment in Berlin in an old tram shed.The best thing about the place is that you can wander in

There are only a few cars there that are a natural fit for this site but I hope you like some pics of the stuff I saw on a visit this week.Actually,the first 10 or so are from a visit last year.Amazingly,even though most cars are at prices that make one shudder,almost the whole stock had changed in one year.

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Ala Montreal in 1970s Colour.

 

 

These are beautiful cars with a wonderful howling V8. One of my late dad's business partners had one in the late '70s. Unfortunately it suffered some kind of engine catastrophe in the office car park, leaving a great smudge of oily mayonnaise where it had sat. It was never seen again - he replaced it with a 911.

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I've always wanted to go there.  Thanks for the photos

 

There is another, Classics Remise in Berlin, this time housed at a Tram Depot building

http://remise.de/Classic-Remise-Berlin-english-summary.php

 

There are altogether three of them, the third is near Stuttgart (Motorworld).

They all used to belong to Meilenwerk AG, which ceased operations in 2014.

 

Meilenwerk was a project of the European Business School in Wiesbaden.

The target was to find profitable ways of utilising listed buildings that initially

were transport related, since purely functional structures usually don't serve

any purpose after their original use has expired.

 

The Meilenwerk AG ultimately filed for bankrupcy after trying to establish

several more branches, including one in England.

Since it was dissolved, the three existing facilities operate independently.

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