“My daughter gave me a 1 / 43rd Ferrari Testarossa for my 40th birthday, and I bought the real one in 2014! », Laughs Michel Blavette, an inhabitant of the Chartres agglomeration whose racing car of 1989 shows only 40,000 km.
Aged 75, the retiree dreamed since his childhood of a red Ferrari with a very musical twelve-cylinder: “The Testarossa (red head) is the penultimate model of Enzo Ferrari. “
In Chartres, Bruno Le Galloudec owns several old vehicles: “I repainted Laurent Voulzy’s Mercedes”
He drives 5,000 km a year at his wheel: “For fun, not speed. I’m past the age of doing stupid things on the road. As a kid in Paris, he was thinking of becoming a mechanic, but his parents pushed him to become an engineer. As a young adult, he helps a friend restore a Citroën B14.
“All my current cars are linked to nostalgia”
“All my current cars are linked to nostalgia. So, in 2006, I bought a blue one from 1927. I like its family side with its rear passenger seat and its separation from the driver, its oval speedometer, its rustic side, you have to move forward to be able to steer… ”
This inhabitant of Bailleau-le-Pin bought (among others) the old car of his marriage
A Renault 4 horses appears in his workshop with a garage bridge to maintain his old cars: “It was my first car. At the time, we bought a vehicle at the scrapyard for 50 francs! I found one, in 2017, which is only 40,000 km. “
After the Ardèche, the Vosges, Spain, Portugal and the Far East, Michel Blavette therefore settled in Eure-et-Loir in 2012, for the second time, after a visit to Epernon: “Retired , I could indulge myself by buying nice cars to ride with friends. “
And remember memories especially when Michel Blavette drove his Simca 1000, his Matra-Simca Bagheera (famous because the first car to offer three front seats), his Simca 1507 and 1508… His father worked for Simca.
Chartres: passionate, this retiree collects cars from the 1920s to the 1970s
He then purchased an Alpine A310: “One of the most beautiful French sports cars, a tricolor flagship. “He confides:” The price of the Ferrari and the Alpine has doubled since I got them. But I won’t sell them! »His car park will be allocated to his three children. He could have bought an AC Cobra after an inheritance: “I preferred to distribute the sum for my children. »And be satisfied with a Dacia Duster for his daily life!
Thierry delaunay
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