In the 7th edition 2018 of Oldtimer Markt, we learn interesting facts about the Opel GT, Rover P4, Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 and BMW 3.0 CSI, Delage D6-70 and many more. There will also be stories about the Mille Miglia, towing and hauling, the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este and much more.
GT'aime - 50 years of the Opel GT
Although it was as American as few German cars before it, the Opel GT presented 50 years ago anticipated the marriage between Opel and Peugeot to a certain extent, as the two-seater was built in France in the same factory as the Peugeot 304. The story of a Franco-German affair, which was more a marriage of convenience than a love affair.
Operation Roverbaker - Rover P4
They are a bit peculiar, the British, aren't they? In automotive terms, no one makes that clearer than "Auntie", Rover's P4 nicknamed "Auntie".
Twelve-way battle - Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 versus BMW 3.0 CSI
A good forty years after the last epic racing battles, two sporting icons of the seventies meet on neutral ground in the Hessian mountains. A multi-layered battle is to be expected: Swabians versus Bavarians, boxer versus straight-six, air versus water cooling, rear versus rear-wheel drive ...
Green border - Delage D6-70
Rotten body, dead technology. Any online buyer's guide today would advise against a Delage in this condition for economic reasons. But in 1981, the world was offline and men didn't buy classic cars to sell them on the internet for a profit. "If you can do a lot, you have to do a lot," is how Antonimus Herrmann explains the last 37 years ...
A thousand dreams - Mille Miglia
A long-cherished dream came true for classic car market reader Christian Zemke: he had already watched the Mille Miglia umpteen times, but now he was allowed to compete himself - as a works driver in the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.
Towing gang - towing and towing away
It's part of the curriculum at driving school: a broken-down vehicle may be towed away after a breakdown or accident. But what happens when a car has to be towed by rope from the garage at home to the painter, to a car show or to the new owner after a sale?
Great cinema - Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este
Four- and two-wheeled stars strolled down the red carpet at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. The motto: Hollywood on the Lake.
Heat battle - Nürburgring GP 1928
It was a hot race at the Nürburgring back then: the German Grand Prix, which Mercedes race director Alfred Neubauer also has special memories of, showed with all its big and small tragedies how dangerous motorsport was 90 years ago.
The lake is calling - in the Golf L to the GTI meeting
Lake Wörthersee has never had it easy. Every year since 1982, over 100,000 GTI fanatics have gathered on the southern shore of the Alpemsee, and in 1990 Roy Black gave the region the rest with Ein Schloss am Wörthersee ...
Maximum irrationality - life with a Cadillac Deville
A woman drives the most exalted luxury liner ever launched in Detroit. A 59 Cadillac DeVille Four Window Flattop. There's never been more flattop. Katrin Turowski needed the full program. But why? The story of a very special way of coming to terms with her childhood.
