François Allain has been hosting "Vintage Mecanic" on RMC Découverte for eight years. This Thursday, this car enthusiast returns with a new number where he and his restorers will retype an agricultural machine. A Polish tractor with a top speed of 20 km / h. "It is the tractor that cleared the Polish countryside after the Second World War," recalls the presenter on the set of "Buzz TV" this Tuesday.
François Allain is a great car collector. He collects so many that he doesn't even count them in his garage anymore. "I have a lot of popular cars from the 1970s, 2CVs, DS... It corresponds to my youth, "says the interested party. His Madeleine de Proust? A small 1950s Barquette bought at the death of one of his friends. "It's a unique model. I care about it like the apple of my eye because it was made by someone I knew and whose story touches me. I have a thick fat brute side but I'm actually a sentimental," he admits.
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Car lovers do not always carry in their hearts Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, who recently decided to set up a limited traffic zone in the center of Paris from 2024. What does François Allain think? "Paradoxically, I'm not necessarily against her. I am from the generation that lived through the time when people were alone in their big cars to go buy bread 300 meters away. Itis indeed, at some point, you have to be consistent. But car collectors are not big pigs of polluters!, stresses François Allain. We have a responsible side and we all have an effort to make in the field of transportation or other. Heating and insulation of houses in particular. This is a real problem today in France. Moreover, more important than the automobile, "says this enthusiast.