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Retro car fulfills its silver wedding

Barcelona. (EFE). - The Hall the International Car Retro Barcelona arrives east year at its silver wedding, an edition number 25 in which tribute to sophisticated Porsche and the 356 Citroën will render 2CV, more known as “two horses� - both turn 60 years, as well as to the Ford-T veteran in their first centenary.

This contest of old vehicles, that will take place from the 4 to the 8 of December in Palace 2 and the place Universal of the Fira-Montjuïc enclosure, will show in his near 31,000 meters squared of surface about 700 vehicles distributed in 300 exhibitors of 15 countries, most European, although also there will be representatives of Japan, the United States, Argentina and Chile.

The director of the hall, Fermín Sulé, explained yesterday in the press conference of presentation that, in spite of the crisis that has affected other contests, Retro Car has been forced to leave outside the hall a twenty exhibitors because “we were to top�, and is that the organization hopes to overcome this year the barrier of the 60,000 visitors.

In 2008 the 60 years of the 356 are celebrated, the first model of Porsche, a sport one of two doors of back motor, constructed for the first time in 1948, and to which Retro Car will dedicate an anthological exhibition. Ford T, on the other hand, will be another one of the protagonists for being the car that one hundred years ago revolutionized the production when being constructed in chain and to thus contribute to popularize the cars between the middle-class.

Paper similar had Citroën 2 CB, two horses, to that Car Retro will dedicate space where umbrella will be able to see two units of “on four wheels�, as it were gotten to him to denominate by the simple thing of his aspect when it appeared, in 1948.

In the contest also a retrospective one on the history of the trial, a modality in the Spain appears east year that not only has offered great champions, but also that has made its contribution in the scope of constructors. The sample will be composed by 25 pieces yielded by marks and fans, with some mythical models of the Bultaco, Wild, Ossa, Gas Gas, Derbi, Marline, JJ Cobas, Sherco, Beta, JP, Alfer, Mecatecno or Clipic.

Besides cars and classic motorcycles, Retro Car has been diversified, and in the last years it has gone incorporated boats and old small planes of collecting, as well as pieces, accessories and other elements related to the world of the automobile.

“The car and the old motorcycle of collector are an article of reserve investment, that never low of price; it can stagnate and take in returning to raise, but never it falls�, has assured the director the hall to animate to possible buyers. Sulé has remembered that the first edition of Retro Car took place in 1984, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 25 years of the Main directorate of Traffic, and that throughout its history, the hall has been a little “titiritero�, since it has had numerous you soothe, from its beginnings in the Fira, happening through the Drassanes, the Olympic Stage, the Spanish Town and the market of the Tip, to saturating again in the Fira-Montjuïc.