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Aperoli managed 3 rallies this year. The 4th one was unfortunately cancelled.  We also toured through southern Bavaria in spring and did a summer tour through the Rhön with Aperoli’s friend, the Volvo Oldtimer.  Highlights: Aperolis tacho changed from 999.999km to 0km 🙂 it’s pretty much a brand new car again 😎 We also got newContinue reading “2025 ~ Aperoli’s year”

The Creme21 youngtimer rally is not only the biggest one in Germany but a crazy one. Dress code: anything as long as it is orange! That counts for the Oldtimer as well as the driver and co-pilot. It gets really interesting when a couple of Oldtimers are stopped at traffic lights, one of the driversContinue reading “Rally #10 ~ the end 🧡”

Grande finale. Last day of our 4-day rally.  Aperolis daily morning routine & health check:  gasoline ✅  oil level ✅  air in the tires ✅  noise check: new noises? Same noises ✅  overall status ✅  Ready to Go 🏁 Start: Thüringer Wald Day Goal: Kassel Break downs: 0 but not performing as usual… Todays driven distance: 288km RoadContinue reading “Rally #10_day4 🧡”

Start: Thüringer Wald Day Goal: Thüringer Wald Break downs: 1 Todays driven distance: 400km Road work: oh yes!  Team #164. Ready. Steady. Go! All day touring through Thüringen & Sachsen today.  Part of today’s road book: Autobahn for 5km including 5 speed cameras – didn’t get flashed 💪🏻 Love the A71 – empty and beautiful scenery, along theContinue reading “Rally #10_day3 🧡”

Start: Paderborn Day Goal: Thüringer Wald Break downs: 0 💪🏻 but new rattling noises… Todays driven distance: 330km Road work: no, but bad quality of roads, poor Oldtimers… 220 out of 228 teams still in at the end of day#2! Today we started in Nordrhein Westfalen and went via Niedersachsen and Hessen to Thüringen. We enjoyed again theContinue reading “Rally #10_day2 🧡”

First challenge mastered already this morning: we made it to the start point. Sounds easy, right? Well, not all Oldtimers managed that… 2 cars already down before official start… Still 226 cars to go 🏁 Start: Bilster Berg 🏁 Day Goal: Paderborn (again 🙂) Break downs: 0 💪🏻 Todays driven distance: 200km & 4 rounds on the racetrackContinue reading “Rally #10_day1 🧡”

Yesterday, Aperoli still had a flat tire… hubby really living our motto “last Minute racing”… Well, it got fixed today and we hit the road. Made it all the way to Paderborn >500km to the start of the rally tomorrow.  Aperoli is ready: filled up with gasoline. Tires got air. Ready to kick off ourContinue reading “Rally #10_Start 🏁 🧡”

Already 4 years ago, we found each other! Happy anniversary, old friend! Here’s to many more miles of memories in this classic beauty. Pretty naked look 4 years ago…  And today 🧡 Next rally coming up in less than a week. Stay tuned! 🏁🚦🚗💨

🚦 Countdown is on: 21 days until the next Creme21 youngtimer rally 🧡  Ignition on, turn up the anticipation – in 3 weeks we are hitting the road! 🚗 💨  Only so much: we are starting on a race track in the west of Germany. Wohooooo! Stay tuned!  #Creme21 #YoungtimerRallye #Countdown #Rallye

Saturday night, 28C degrees at 10pm. Summer. Sunshine. Aperoli meeting other oldies. Live music. Burger & popcorn. Autokino as soon as it is dark enough. A film from 1981 “The Cannonball Run”. An Oldtimer, of course.  *A Cannonball Run is an unsanctioned speed record for driving across the United States, typically accepted to run fromContinue reading “Autokino for Oldies “