From 7 to 10 March at the "Crocus Expo" will be held 21th "Oldtimer Gallery" - a vintage car show, antiques and style of a bygone era

Source: Press Release," Oldtimer Gallery »

7-10 March 2013
«Crocus Expo", pavilion № 1, Hall № 3

From 7 to 10 March in "Crocus Expo" will be held 21th "Oldtimer Gallery" - a vintage car show, antiques and style of a bygone era.

The official opening ceremony will take place on March 7, 2013, beginning at 13:00.

first time on "Oldtimer Gallery" exhibition organized by the "Legends of the Soviet motor sport", which gathered dozens of racing, motocross and rally cars. Once they were triumphant rally and marathon race winners and record arrivals, pride of Soviet sport. Their names are not descended from newspaper strips: "Kharkiv", "Kiev-Sport", "Estonia", "Tartu". Collector and historian Eugene Shaman Vladimir Kireev able to recover steel heroes of the past from oblivion. The appearance of some of them in the exhibition will be a surprise even to specialists.

main event of the show - Concours d `Elegance - automotive beauty contest, which will gather a constellation of previously not shown to the public oldtimers from private collections. "Hispano-Suiza", "Isotta-Fraschini," "Panhard-Levassor" - their names sound like music. Each of them - the embodiment of perfection auto design, each of them - the style icon, each of them has a chance to get the Grand Prix and the title of the most elegant, classic car, 2013. Decide the winner will not only judges, but also journalists and visitors.

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main exhibition will premiere a car, and the Yak-1 - the legendary Great Fighter Patriotic raised from the bottom of the lake and is in the process of restoration. The aircraft will be shown in a unique form - a wooden frame with no skin, which will consider in detail the internal structure of a combat vehicle and literally touch the living history.

most striking exhibits:

• sports convertible Horch 830Bk, powerful and fast ancestor Audi A8 from 1935;
• slogger eminent brands - tractors Lamborghini Lamborghinetta (1958) Porsche Standard (1960);
• sporty Ford Mustang CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev;
• luxury Cadillac Fleetwood (1959), the era of "Detroit Baroque" with wings, fins;
• rare American La France - race car of the early twentieth century.

first time in Russia can be seen a unique collection of "road" of the classics of Soviet photography ; many of these photos have never been demonstrated.

Source : press release "Oldtimer Gallery»