Petrolicious, the quality creator, and the original films and articles of classic car fans, released its latest video, including Jürgen Claus that followed his dreams, the original Rally A110.
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Today, the plartor takes the story of Klaus …
In Stuttgart, two brands are the king: Porsche and Mercedes. Their presence everywhere is paved in the roads, culture, and the identity of the same region. If you grew up there, you were supposed to choose aside and pledge loyalty to one of the two.
Jurgen Claus grew up in Stuttgart but did not adhere to this traditional German wisdom. Another thing that caught his attention. In gifts, glimpses, and some stolen life tires while riding a bicycle on his bike, he was discovering a car. You will skip the past, barely there, then he went, but every time, Jurgen gave something to dream about.
Before it was a legend, before the car that overthrew the giants, the A110 was a newly curious. The Alps in Deby, France, was born in the early sixties of the last century, where Jean Reedi’s vision of a “sportswear” car was designed for grace on brute power. He saw weight as the real enemy, believing that the balance of the right power, size, dealing and simplicity It will create something really special.
What the world ended in the world is a scalpel of fiberglass, and the rear motor of a car, based on Renault foundations. It was compressed, accurately appearance, and rapidly deceptive. A110 will flourish at the end, as muscle cars stumbled, becoming a gathering tool that proves its name on the history of motorsport. Everywhere, he won the stages of Monte Carlo, in the Alps, over gravel, on a runway. He was light, graceful and completely mercy. In 1973, when the World Assembly Championship was officially established, it was the A110 Alps that won the first title, proving that more power was not always better. Perhaps lightweight pioneers such as Lanceia Stratos are not formulated if not for the A110.
Take Yorgen’s search for A110 in an unknown depth, and pulling strands on rumors and whispers. Finding the regular alpine in a decent condition is not easy. Finding a business car? Almost impossible. The world is full of attractive stores, vacation and glass fibers. The real competition that the A110s built is ghosts. Ultimately, the wind caught up from a car that was supposed to be sold in Hungary, which is the real alpine with real proportions. There were no documents, there is no clear paper trail, just progress. He has done what anyone who has the obsession of this deep will do. He was filled with a backpack full of criticism and hitting the road. No guarantees, no promises.
Under layers of doubtful adjustments, spoilers, turbocharged charger, interior coolers, there was something unambiguous. The paintings in the anterior stem were still original. On it, the structure number revealed the truth. The car was real. It does not matter that it does not look as it should. It does not matter that it takes years of work to return it. He was not leaving without him.
Jurgen spent years in retreat from the damage. The hours turned into weeks and weeks that turned into months. Swalf, welding, reshaping … dream. Mania. There were no plans, there are no factory records with detailed specifications. The A110 was not designed with obsessive disorder of the Stuttgart engineer. It was built by French hands, repeated through experience and error. Each reinforcement, each pillar, each tablet is added as needed. Problems have been solved immediately, one by one with a few documents to be followed. There were only 17 real copies of this car that was built at all, in 1973. How many are still there? Just a handful of original copies is a sea of symmetrical copies. Waiting to discover and restore it.
He says, “My name is Jurgen Klose,” and I fell in love with the queen. The Queen of Groups. ”