The French love the automobile. Otherwise, how to explain that the garages and barns of the Hexagon are full of vintage cars? This is the main lesson of the Tour de France that the teams of the auction house Artcurial Motorcars have just completed. Admittedly, it is an established fact but heartbreaking: with each sale or succession, the most beautiful jewels of our industrial heritage fly away under other skies - the treasures of the French bodywork of the Roaring Twenties have for the most part gone to France. foreigner for a long time - but France still has several tens of thousands of cars, testimonies of the richness of our industrial history. In 2017, the French Federation of Vintage Vehicles (FFVE) estimated that the country had around 230,000 collectors. More than 30,000 of them,which represented 97,651 vehicles (the average number of vehicles is 3.19 per collector), responded to the consultation conducted by the recognized association
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