Watching classic cars in the city
10/24/2023
It's finally fall, the leaves are yellow and the temperatures have dropped significantly. Nevertheless, you can still sit outside, the sun is still a little warm. So at the weekend I once again sat in a roadside café and watched the hustle and bustle on the arterial road. Anyone who doesn't believe that classic cars only play a minor role in modern road traffic will soon be proven wrong. Cars that are more than 30 years old only pass by sporadically, the majority of vehicles are less than 10 years old, just everyday cars.
At some point, you might see a Porsche 964 like the one in the picture, which is just over 30 years old and is perfectly fine in everyday traffic. Even after an hour or more, no pre-war car is visible for miles around, as if they were extinct.
Although there is still a significant number of cars from the 1920s or 1930s, hardly anyone drives them into town anymore if it is avoidable. With a Mercedes-Benz from the 1980s or a BMW from the same era, it's much easier, and it's not uncommon for classic car owners to have several cars. They simply choose the vehicle that makes the most sense for their purpose and more and more often it is the more modern car. It's no wonder that annual mileage is constantly falling, especially for very old classics. And those 300 or 500 km a year are not something you want to do in a traffic jam in the city, but rather on beautiful country roads ...
