Some Ruhrside Spots

[artdjones]

In Essen for a week - just a few spots if anyone is still interested in cars.

Monza was parked out side a restaurant.

The Skoda and Omega were parked inside a test centre yard.

Taunus is the first 2 Dr I've seen-not quite as good close to as there are a few brush painted areas.

[skoda_fan]

What d'ya mean, "if anyone is still interested in cars"? You bet we are! Moar please, esp if they're like the middle pic!

[artdjones]

These are on the Rhine rather than the Ruhr.The two Citroens were parked in the next line to us.The Rolls 20/25 is on display at the entrance to a riverside beer garden and is in a fairly deteriorated condition with fake chickens inside, as seen in the third pic.Or maybe not fake but stuffed?

More over the next few days.

[John F]

Haha! The pic of the Rolls is from Galerie Burghof on the Kaiserswerth in Düsseldorf, isn't it?

 

I've been there.

 

Do they still have those yank tanks overgrown with ivy?

 

[mk2_craig]

Is that a Carlton/Omega in the distance behind the Skoda?

[John F]

It definitely looks like one.

[Cavcraft]

That Monza is weapons grade class.

[John F]

That Monza is weapons grade class.

 

I've managed to persuade myself it has a manual gearbox for extra grins.

[Cavcraft]

That Monza is weapons grade class.

[Dirk Diggler]

You can say that again

[chaseracer]

Are those Taunuseseseseses front-wheel-drive?

[artdjones]

Yes it's Galerie Burghof.Didnt see any Yank cars but didn't notice an ivy bush either.Taunus is 1.5 fwd with a German Ford V4 , apparently much stronger than the English V4.I have the same engine in a Saab 96.

[cros]

Front drive V4 with unusual cooling arrangement. I had the bigger 17m once and I liked it.

[artdjones]

Some kind of American van-GMC

Also the Ford Equivalent of a Grand Voyager don't know what it's called - couldn't get too close as it contained a family.

[artdjones]

At the Möhnesee today.

[artdjones]

I had to stop for this Simca(Outside Soest).

[John F]

Woohoo! A Calibra, in an unusual colour too.

 

Is there still no mention of the Dambusters raid at the Möhnesee? I was there a few years ago, and despite overhearing loads of people talking about where the bomb hit, the direction from which the Lancs approached the dam, etc. there wasn't a single word about the raid in the official blurb at the site

 

The Edersee dam is a bit more honest, you can even quite clearly see the repaired section:

 

[artdjones]

This Toledo seen in Gelsenkirchen yesterday is not particularly exciting but as I took it  a Junkers Ju52 Trimotor flew overhead making a wonderful noise.

[artdjones]

Regarding Möhnsee there is an information board about what it calls the disaster.Also you can buy a copy of The Dambusters at the kiosk.

[John F]

Regarding Möhnsee there is an information board about what it calls the disaster.Also you can buy a copy of The Dambusters at the kiosk.

 

Ah OK, it wasn't there a few years ago (or I didn't see it, if it was).

 

I did buy the book "Wasserkrieg – 17. Mai 1943; Rollbomben gegen die Möhne-, Eder- und Sorpestaudämme" from the kiosk though, it gives a very interesting insight into the event from the German perspective.

[artdjones]

Yes, apparently people were drowned in their cellars as far away as Essen.

[Tamworthbay]

That Monza is weapons grade class.

They are awesome, always surprises me they didn't sell a lot more over here, perhaps they were a bit expensive new.

[RoadworkUK]

IIRC one Mr Steve Brookman of this parish has mentioned that they can suffer a spot of surface* rust.