European Road Trip - Many, Many Pictures

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Millionth Mini (why is it here though?)

 

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Modern, but contained a W12

 

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Another one...

 

[Yoss]

Top stuff there. Speyer was already on my list of places to go and god I'd bloody love a Tatra. I'd have missed the Merc place and gone to the Škoda museum instead but that's just me. Still looks like a bloody good trip. More than a little jealous.

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we'll end the VW museum tour with a Skoda bicycle.

 

Post-Wolfsburg we travelled via Hannover again (to drop someone at the airport who had to be back a day earlier) to Eindhoven for our final night, which included the best burger I've had in a long time.

 

Another late evening was had, but we'd be home tomorrow.

[garycox]

Top stuff there. Speyer was already on my list of places to go and god I'd bloody love a Tatra. I'd have missed the Merc place and gone to the Škoda museum instead but that's just me. Still looks like a bloody good trip. More than a little jealous.

 

Where's the Skoda museum?! Next time!

[Guest Hooli]

I wish you'd taken more pics

[junkyarddog]

That Cord is a thing of absolute beauty.

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Day 10:

 

As we'd stayed in Eindhoven on our final night, it's probably fairly obvious what our last stop would be

 

We had breakfast here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RoadworkUK]

That Speyer museum looks astonishing. That's some chutzpah, mounting a 747 like that!

 

Prague's Metro system is full of gorgeous anodised surfaces, with lashings of wood-print on the escalators, as if they were modelled on the interior of a late Plaxton supreme.

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This American-looking truck was nice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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There were loads of the little saloons obviously

 

 

 

 

 

Don't think I've seen a pick-up before though

 

 

 

 

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The coupes look so well-proportioned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[robinmasters]

Amazing. Appreciate all the work in posting it all too.

 

However, much as I enjoyed all the pictures (the Tatra museum in particular), and the travelogue, I've reached the end of the thread mainly wanting a Fiat Multipla.

[mercrocker]

 

 

 

What's this?

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Adler Trumpf, c.1939

 

Absolutely stonking thread, I have just read through this eating a cheese toastie.

 

God knows what I will be dreaming about tonight......

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Parting shot

 

After the DAF museum, all that was left was the last refuelling stop

 

And the train home

 

That was great.

[barrett]

That looks properly brilliant, I am actually a bit jealous

[wuvvum]

What a superb thread.  As others have said, the Speyer museum looks epic - almost worth a trip on its own.

 

WTF is this thing though?  Almost looks like a modern reimagining of the Lancia Stratos.

 

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I think that's exactly what it is, but I'm not sure whether it's an official Lancia product or not. It was UK registered on a 17-plate, but I didn't catch the reg to check.

[RobT]

What's all that going on with the Volvo 340? Was it the last ever made?

[fiatdaft]

Awesome trip, the modern stratos is based on a Ferrari 430,mega rare spot !

 

Also Sinsheim's sister museum at Speyer is also mega!

 

 

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[Junkman]

That Cord is a thing of absolute beauty.

 

I strongly disagree.

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I believe this is what is left of a Dyna-Veritas prototype, but I'll happily stand corrected if it isn't.

 

 

 

I think it's a 1936 Adler Trumph 1700 AV saloon.

It's a follow up model on Adler's front wheel drive monocoque Trumph, which predates Citroen's Traction Avant.

[seth]

That looked like a properly good roadtrip and I doubt it would have been much better even if the original show destination hadn't moved date!