We've talked about it before: You don't have to go to France or South America to find dormant classics. Just go out for a day in the rural parts of our country. Then do a cup of coffee and a bouncer in a local catering establishment or buy a few duplolamps from the village garage. NOT at a dealer.
Start a chat
Then make an open-minded remark about old cars or motorbikes. About classics. And before you know it you're talking. And while talking there will be addresses. Then the café boss calls a fellow villager: “Hi. With Wim here. I'm sitting here and talking to a few people about old cars / motorbikes. Can they come and see you? ”Think for yourself in which local dialect such a conversation can take place.
South France? South-Holland!
Last weekend we were on one of the South Holland islands. We were there with an acquaintance who, like one of our freelance employees, was one too Citroën BX went to buy at garage Hesselink. Not because what you get far is so delicious, but because the BXsen collection is being thinned out there. Think of the magic words "But how much can he leave?"
A bouncer with consequences
To celebrate the new purchase, we went somewhere a village further a bouncer. The horeca man saw that we had arrived with two classics. And we started talking. It became rather late that day before we got home. Because from one came the other.
Okay, you can also find them in France
It was like the time that we came with Jan Tinga to a (French) village the size of a wet bath towel. There we found 7 classics at different addresses. They all came to the Netherlands.
Not for sale
The cars and motorcycles that we saw on Saturday are all close together on a South Holland island. There are still plenty of barns to just put things down and then forty years to look back. Or to restore some old-timers in peace.
The classics that we were allowed to see are generally not for sale except for some remaining BXs from Dirksland. But they might just come for sale. Dream along:
Thanks to the people who wanted to receive us and the pleasant conversations 🙂
Correct. Because: the bath towel, the dry. And of course, with all our local dialects, Europe will never be anything. And classic love is more about emotion than technique. So you just get away with that 🙂
Nice article. Bath towel is one word, by the way. Little knowledge of technology, but much interest in it, but writing is my profession.
At Flakkee, as they thought I say there, they speak a dialect that is closely related to Zeeland.