Porsche celebrates 75 years (Porsche)
Auto shows are usually showcase events where manufacturers present the latest innovations, hinting at what's to come through concept cars.
Ones that are actually a new model from serial production that will be announced soon, and also the kind that will then go straight to the warehouse, or if it really creates talk and interest around it - to the museum.
But there are also car shows that actually look backwards.
About cars that starred in car shows decades ago.
Cars that are no longer produced, but can still be appreciated, whether behind the wheel or here with a veiled view that remembers them as young, innovative and influential.
75th anniversary display for Porsche.
Started in Austria in 1948 and after a year moved to Stuttgart (photo: Walla! system, Yehuda Elias)
Accessories for the lady in the spirit of the era (photo: Walla! system, Yehuda Elias)
Posters from the first days of the Grand Prix (Photo: Walla! System, Yehuda Elias)
Retro Classic is an exhibition of the second kind.
The exhibition that took place at the end of February in Stuttgart, Germany for the 20th time, mainly celebrated the past of the German car industry, but not only its own, as visitors wandered among the cars on display, restoration and restoration artists, book stands, clothing, watches and the inevitable car models, for those who don't have He has the space or the money to own a real classic.
And this is also the uniqueness of this exhibition: not only is it allowed to touch the goods, some of them can be bought.
Motoring legends for hundreds of thousands of euros, but also less privileged classics, and at prices of less than 10,000 euros.
Displays from the classic divisions of the German car manufacturers, but also from dealers and private exhibitors.
Refurbishment workshops presented classic cars in an off-the-shelf level of finish
A special display was dedicated to models that celebrated their 70th birthday this year, such as the Opel Record and the Mercedes 180. In the history of the local automobile industry, 1953 is a year that will be remembered: the first year in which the number of cars in the country exceeded one million, and the first in which the legal blood alcohol level for driving was established by law.
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Mercedes 190SL.
Like new, with 615,000 km. Price in details (photo: Walla! system, Yehuda Elias)
According to the organizers, a total of 82,000 visitors came to the seven exhibition halls.
Porsche had a big display for its 75th anniversary, from the first 356 which was very close to the Beetle, to the 918 Spider.
The young Porsche began producing the 356 in 1948 back in Austria, before moving in 1949 to its current location in Stuttgart.
SL 356, i.e. Super Light, a lighter version, which participated in 1951 in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, was presented at the exhibition, recording a victory in its category, and opening a chain of achievements in the French race that continues to this day.
The Mercedes 190SL car club presented a car belonging to one of the members who recorded the road and the places it visited, a car that has so far covered 615,000 km in all of Europe, and even survived a snowstorm at a ski resort. I have a corner in my heart for this Mercedes: its twin is parked at my house, after which underwent a two-and-a-half-year renovation that returned her to her youth.
And as mentioned, not only German women came here.
Mazda presented a rare Cosmo, from the first generation of the sports car that was launched in 1967 and throughout the years promoted the Wankel engine, invented by the German engineer Dr. Felix Wankel, and caused the bankruptcy of the German car manufacturer NSU, which was then purchased by the young Volkswagen and became Audi.
Mazda Cosmo.
Surprisingly, the world has yet to see a real classic Lantis (Photo: Walla! System, Yehuda Elias)
Cosmo and the Wankel engine (photo: Walla! System, Yehuda Elias)
Even in the country where Mazda was the best-selling car for about a decade and a half, we didn't see a Cosmo on the road.
And in the same country where the Studebaker Lark was assembled in the 1960s, which then became a national executive car as well as a police car, we did not see the Studebaker that was presented at the exhibition, the rare Avanti, an attempt by the dying American company to create a sports car with a very advanced design for its time.
The next exhibition will take place in the spring of 2024.
Studebaker Avanti.
If only Ephraim Ilin had put it together as an answer to Shobinski's suggestion (photo: Walla! system, Yehuda Elias)
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