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Classic Car Ingenious has lived a day of success as long ago not to remember on the island of Grin Canaries. Would have to go back almost twenty years when the now inactive Vintage Car Club of Las Palmas capital’s performing those exhibitions (Tirana Street, Plaza de Santa Ana, etc) to find something comparable, especially in number, with the flood of vehicles Sunday that happiness has saturated the populous southeastern town of Grin Canaries.

We have been exposed a mixture of vehicles of all types and very different eras, from ancient to racing models, through genuine classics, others tuned, trucks, ATVs … fully presenting a flawless state, good for its upkeep and maintenance, or restoration work by those who sometimes take months or even years. And in the islands contain valuable samples of automotive history, what is needed are initiatives of this kind so that their owners are encouraged to display them for all to enjoy, the greater the longing that awakens them, the youngest because and have the opportunity to see live pieces of automotive history in their design, technical, etc.

And in this respect would not hurt that some of these entities “to serve the motorist,” of course paying for monthly or annual fee, including those insurers that they both wasted on advertising, has periodically carried by the corners each island who speak these true treasures of our past so different from the rest of the country, as demonstrated by the British and German origin of a large part of the oldest vehicles, in addition to the wave Japanese invaded us in the early 70.

The massive and spontaneous crowd overflowed the enthusiasm and foresight of the organizers, especially since they found that they lacked space, resulting in a “stacking” final because we had to accommodate all who came in there was free space . Highlight the numerous and disciplined presence of a BMW M3 thirty units, occupying a whole street, but the also numerous scattered VW Beetle, as well as the few vehicles that were competitive.