The very rainy weather made us look for another museum, and we found one with cars! The Collection Schlumpf in Mulhouse was the perfect location to spend at least half a day inside. The collection of the Schlumpf brothers begins 1936 with the purchase of a Bugatti, a real competition car, from the prestigious Alsatian car manufacturer. …
First some trucks we had admired at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, later some of the Unimog we saw at the museum in Gaggenau. With this LO 1112, Hector Prieto began a career as bus operator in Buenos Aires in 1969. As was customary in many private bus companies in the Argentine capital, his vehicle …
It was a rainy and cold day when we came past Stuttgart, and what would be a better idea than to visit a museum. We had been to the Porsche museum before, so this time we visited the Mercedes-Benz museum. Here some of the most beautiful cars we saw there. There are more cars to …
We discovered, that there is a car museum in Tbilisi, the only one in the whole Caucasus, we were told. It is based on a private collection of Soviet cars, something we had to see. If you follow us already a long time, you will know, that we seldom walk past a car museum. The …
Since more than 30 years we own a very special American classic car, the very rare “DODGE RAMCHARGER” built in 1976. Since we own this classic car, we have invested in it each year so that it was always a very nice and joyful daily driver. In 2010, we moved the car from Austria to …
Normally we would have visited one of the lovely Christmas markets in Vienna at this time of the year, but because of Corona that was not possible. Instead we did some sightseeing, visiting the Wagenburg of Schönbrunn, the place were all the royal carriages are kept. The “Wagenburg” or Imperial Carriage Museum houses the remains …
We had read about this place somewhere and were fascinated by the pictures we found on the Internet. A cemetery of old cars from the 40s to the 70s lies in a remote forest close to the border to Norway. We drove on a small gravel road to get there, when suddenly the first old …
From the numerous interesting museums Riga offers, we decided on – somebody surprised? – the Motor Museum! The modern museum is very well designed, with a lot of animation and videos to give technical explanations or an impression of the role cars played in history. We were truly impressed. How everything started, from the invention …
Our friend Hubert took us to the Louwman Museum just outside of Den Haag, which was the best museum on the history of cars we had visited up to now. The collection is incredibly comprehensive and so well presented, it was amazing. The collection of over two hundred cars has been assembled since 1934 by …
We went to explore Flevoland, the twelfth and youngest province in the Netherlands. It consists almost entirely of land that was only won from the IJsselmeer in the 20th century. Lelystad Our first stop was at Lelystad, the capital of Flevoland, where 2 museum had caught our interest: The Batavia shipyard and the Aviodrome. We …
