European Road Trip - Many, Many Pictures

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I loved it in Czech, it's a great place.

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The museum contained quite a few cars (mainly prototypes) that I'd not seen before, all of which looked great.

 

These next three were my favourites

 

 

 

 

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Best 613

 

 

This Calibra-esque coupe was neat, but was parked the wrong way round to disguise taped-over accident damage

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After the Tatra museum we headed to Kelč for the evening.

 

 

 

We stayed here, and were provided with as much home-made slivovice and excellent steak as we could handle. Lovely.

 

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Day 6:

 

This was a non-car day.

 

Woke up in Kelč, played with this dog for a bit

 

Drove to Auschwitz where we met the others and went on a tour

 

And then went to Katowice where we were staying, to have some delicious food and cheer ourselves up. Fairly early night as tomorrow we'd start the long drive back home.

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Day 7:

 

Next stop, Berlin. We left Katowice early so we could get as much time there as possible (and because it was a really long way)

 

 

 

As we had some time to kill in the evening, we had a look for something interesting and found the DDR museum. Not much vehicular content, but it was interesting and bizarre in equal measures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Faker]

Wow! Pics are fukking great!! Those places are simply out of this world.

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There are loads of Twingos out there still so I'm not entirely sure why I photographed this one on the way back from the museum

 

We then went to the hotel bar, and some of us went to another bar afterwards, and then somehow it was 4:30am.

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Day 8:

 

We left ourselves plenty of time so we didn't have to rush out of Berlin; the next drive (to Hannover) was fairly short and we didn't need to do anything there except eat and sleep.

 

 

We had a wander to Trabi World, where they hire out Trabants for tours etc. They also seem to have a sideline in American cars for some reason.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After Trabi World we clearly had not seen enough Trabants, and the Trabi Museum was close by.

 

 

The little coupe was quite cute

 

 

 

 

 

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Driver training thing

 

 

and finally from the Trabant museum, a model of a car i'd never heard of

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Sightseeing

 

Shiteseeing

 

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Sightseeing

 

One of our group casually mentioned that we were really close to Classic Remise. None of us had been before, so we decided to pop in on the way out of Berlin.

 

The cars on the surrounding streets were a good sign

 

 

 

These valuable Mercedes seemed to have been dumped here for a while

 

604 had no interior or engine

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...and then we went inside. This place is incredible! It seems to be the premises for a load of high-end specialists and contains shitloads of exotica you can just walk around for free! 

 

There were a lot of Mercedes, Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches etc, but here are some highlights of the more interesting stuff:

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Not sure what this military thing was; any ideas?

 

 

 

 

Oh look, another one of those VWs...

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I went there in 2015 and properly enjoyed myself, your trip looks mega and some great pics you have got.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/19173-classic-remise/

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A lot of the cars were in glass boxes, making them very difficult to photograph. The ones in here all seemed very dusty, as if they'd been there a while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Electric truck from 1943

 

No idea what sort of lorry this was

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of DSs, including 3 décapotables

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Even Barrett could not identify this car:

 

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BORING

 

 

Don't think I've heard of a 560 SL before

 

What's this?

 

[Guest Hooli]

You were just around the corner from Checkpoint Charlie too. Which I think explains the yank tanks at trabby world, if memory serves it was in the American sector. If the rules there were like the rules here then the service men imported yank stuff & had to sell it when they left.

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Something American?

 

 

 

NAG is another I was not familiar with

 

To the outside area...

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This was inside when Danterzza visited in 2015

 

 

 

 

 

Another I've not seen before

 

Quattroporte II!!

 

 

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After Classic Remise we headed to Hannover for the night, where we spent ages failing to find a cash machine and this was the most interesting thing we saw

 

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After Classic Remise we headed to Hannover for the night, where we spent ages failing to find a cash machine and this was the most interesting thing we saw

 

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Cash machines are usually inside the banks- foyer's are open 24 hours. Took me a while a few years back to work out that they were never on the street.

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Day 9:

 

From Hannover it was about an hour's drive to Wolfsburg and the VW museum.

 

 

More cars in boxes

 

This place looks like it's split into loads of big buildings, but only one (called the Autohaus or similar) contains anything that isn't brand new

 

You'd expect it to be almost exclusively VAG stuff in there, but about half of it seemed to be selected at random and had no obvious connection. Which was good.