Classic Car and Historical Note

Classic Car and CaPada December 24 to 27 December 2009 at the Kartika Expo Center, Balai Kartini, Jakarta, held 3rd Otoblitz International Classic Car Show 2009. A variety of classic cars on display there.

Classic car show, this time entitled “Unveiling, The Classic Spirit (Revealing, Spirit of the Past)” was initiated by WAW Productions, who returned to work with the Association of Car Enthusiasts Ancient Indonesia (PPMKI), Institute of Motor Indonesia (IMI), sole agent car brands in Indonesia, and dozens of collectors.
Classic car show always attracts the attention of many people. Not only the classic cars on display there, but also because every car on display to save the spirit of his time and has its own story.

An example is the Ford Model A (1928). The car was reminiscent of the Ford Model A that is used TO Schütt, racers plantation, from Batavia (Jakarta) to Soerabaja (Surabaya) on 6-7 February 1929. With a Ford Model A police numbered D880, the TH-Batavia route Schütt Soerabaja far as 846 miles in 11 hours 26 minutes.



That is just one example. The story of the Ford Model A that can be found in Crete book Satan (“de duivelswagen”) Habnit FF works published in 1977.

Not only that, see the 1928 Ford Model A in that good condition does not make it hard to imagine life in 1929 when the Ford Model A still easily found speeding down the steps of the road on the island of Java, especially in the Post Road that built the Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels ( 1808-1811) from Anyer to Panarukan.

Of course, classic cars as well as the other. Each person can dig up the stories about cars and fashion at the time the car was circulated. (Jl)


from: kompas.com