Club Chairman Dirk Auttenbo Heart (driver's seat) completed the 1967 Honda T500 restore last year."When a member of the club died eight years ago, the bereaved family told me to pick up the parts. I visited the house and found this car in the hut. I seriously negotiated and managed to give it out.I got it. I just spent a lot of money into the restore. "Only three were imported to the Netherlands."It seems that Honda people seemed to be using it for the store around the store," only one of them exists.
In the United Kingdom, Germany, France, there are car production powers around, and in the Netherlands, where global car manufacturers did not grow in their own country.However, it is the birthplace of car -related companies, and the country has been active in races since ancient times.Naturally, although it is a land that is the mainstream of European cars, there are also enthusiastic Japanese car fans.I was able to meet the old Japanese car enthusiast with a surprise material.▶▶ [14 photos] Carts who came on Toyota Sports 800, which are large and can not ride without removing the roof [from the Netherlands!How to enjoy the old Nippon car] The Netherlands Auto's Auto Industries In the past, Nissan was temporarily a European base, but it is undeniable that the Netherlands has a weak impression in terms of the origin of cars.The Dutch, which was surrounded by three automobile production powers, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, lacked the competitiveness that competed with neighboring automobile production, or could not be serious, but it did not continue to be patient.But should I say?The beginning of the first place is old.The "Spiker", which appeared in the 2000s in the F1, started with the name of the spiker brothers who started the license production of the German Benz around 1900.In 1903, he created a race car with the world's first in -line six -cylinder engine, and in 1922 he made a 24 -hour speed world record at that time, and showed his presence.However, the company goes bankrupt without long lasting.I was able to leave only 25 years of history.Although the spiker is separated, Donkerboot began in Lotus Seven.I still only make a small number of sports cars.It seems that the people of Soichiro Honda have not been produced in this country, with an extraordinary enthusiasm for the idea of making the car making that began with passion and continuing to develop.When I searched for a big car company in the Netherlands, there was only one DAF manufacturer.DAF, which began with a repair shop, began producing commercial vehicles in 1949 and passenger cars in 1958.It was an innovative manufacturer, including the first adoption of a belt -type non -transmission.However, the European countries of this era, unlike the current EU, were separate countries, and they were competing with each other.Meanwhile, labor costs were too high in the wealthy Dutch country, and the production cars lacked international competitiveness with neighboring countries.The DAF passenger car category, which has not exported, was acquired by Sweden Volvo in the 70's.Pure "mass -produced Dutch cars" were produced only for a short period of less than 20 years.The car category, which had continued to deteriorate management, was intervened by the Dutch government in 1990 to secure employment, and Mitsubishi participated from Japan to rebuild (Mitsubishi withdrawal in 2012).As a result, since 1996, the company has been producing Mitsubishi and now BMW Mini as a Nedcar, which produces contracts.For that reason, the Netherlands does not exist, but I would like to say for the honor of this country.The Netherlands is also the knee of the shell of gasoline and the world -renowned brand of headlamp bulbs, Philips, and has a good manufacturer that produces large vehicles such as trucks and buses.In Europe, car races have been around for a long time, but the Netherlands did not show their presence.Did you not desire to develop automobile -related technology with the will of the country that tried to protect your neutral position in two World War I?Imagine the Dutch's heart at that time.First appearance: NOSTALGIC HERO December 2015 issue Vol.172 (The contents in the article are mainly based on those of the publication)
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