Where do all these new vintage cars actually come from?
It is noticeable that"new cars" with an age of 30 years or more have been offered at auctions recently, i.e. vehicles that have hardly been driven or not driven at all in their ibsher life.
In Kissimmee , for example, Mecum auctioned off a 1971 Dodge Challenger RT Hemi with just 1871 miles on the clock. The car even still had its original tires fitted and was first-hand until it was sold.
Also on offer was a 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 with 4770 miles on the clock. It came from a museum.
But auctionata, the online auction house from Berlin, which will be auctioning off an Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint Veloce 1.5 from 1981 on February 27, 2015, seems to have taken the cake.
The special "Trofeo" model was first-hand until 2014 and now has 240 km on the clock. Inside, the car looks like new and any imperfections were factory standard.
Of the few thousand Sprints from the first series with chrome bumpers, only a few have survived; in our part of the world, you can probably count cars that are practically as good as new on one hand. Or when was the last time you saw a "Trofeo" on the road?
The question that arises, however, is how did these owners manage to drive the Dodge, the Mustang or the Sprint Veloce so little, to do without the sound of the engine in their ears and so on...?
