Retro Classics Bavaria will open its doors for the 6th time in Nuremberg from December 2 to 4, 2022.
The Technik Museen Sinsheim Speyer will be presenting top-class delicacies on four and two wheels in Hall 7A, e.g. the "Brutus" racing car, which has a V12 BMW aircraft engine with a displacement of 47 liters and is naturally aspirated - a "concert" with at least 550 hp!
And "Mavis" proves that boat engines have also been put into land vehicles, consuming anything but ladylike 15 liters of fuel (per minute, mind you!) when the full power of its V12 torpedo boat engine with 42 liters of displacement is called up and accelerates the 2.4 tons of the British in-house creation in the style of the racing cars of the 1920s.
The 12 Lanz Bulldog is not so good at acceleration, but its single-cylinder engine with a displacement of 6.4 liters and 12 hp is no less impressive, especially when you can listen to the crankshaft revolutions, accompanied by a dull rumble from the depths of the displacement.
At the other end of the scale, so to speak, is the "white Mars" from the 1920s with a two-cylinder boxer engine and 956 cc, the most famous design from the Nuremberg-based vehicle manufacturer, which was founded in 1873 and began building motorcycles as early as 1903.
In addition to these unique exhibits and much more, visitors to the Technik Museen Sinsheim Speyer stand can take a seat in a rollover simulator and experience for themselves what physics does to the occupants when the vehicle lifts off the road.
Rediscovered Peugeot
Walling in refers to the permanent enclosure of animals, people or objects behind a newly erected wall. This is exactly what happened to a Peugeot 301 D built in 1935, which is now in a unique, almost untouched original condition due to this incident. But first things first: In November 1935, the Peugeot 301 D was registered in the French department of Gironde. Not much is known about the gray-blue sedan from this period, but it is known that it was hidden for the first time at the turn of the year 1940/41 in order to prevent it from being requisitioned by German troops during the occupation of France.
What is certain, however, is that it took part in road traffic in the south-west of France again from 1946 and changed hands in 1955, from then on being driven by a farmer's wife. How long she did this is a mystery, but it was probably towards the end of the 1950s that the Peugeot was, or rather stood, in the dark, because it was walled up all around for no less than 45 years. In 2006, it literally saw the light of day again when it was discovered in the course of a house demolition. A time machine that one wishes could tell something about the decades.
The Schweinfurt Vehicle Academy will also be presenting its classic car seminars in Nuremberg.
You can read more about Retro Classics Bavaria and its highlights on the classic car fair website.
