They are all familiar to us. Some accompanied us to school and rocked our family vacation road trips in the backseat. Others guided our first steps as young drivers. Still too recent to belong to the category of “vintage cars”, but too old to continue to run on a daily basis, these models, which still supplied the parking lots of used car dealers yesterday, have become collectors. When they haven't been scrapped, overcome by corrosion, or traded as a scrappage bounty, these cars are now very popular. An economy has even been structured around them. These cars, which are found around the neologism
youngtimer
("young old") born in Germany, as opposed to
oldtimer
("old"), are the object of a true cult.
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