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Last Rally: Rhön Rad Rumble 

One last rally, for now! 🏁 Aperoli lost its road clearance, but since we signed up a year ago, we’re hitting the track in our other Mini (BMW) instead. The adventure continued (at least for another last rally)! 🚗✨ While Aperoli patiently waited at home, the brother mini was out having the time of hisContinue reading “Last Rally: Rhön Rad Rumble “

Farewell, Aperoli 😘 

Happy 30th Birthday! You have finally hit the magnificent milestone where your engine is officially classified as a vintage classic. Welcome to the oldtimer club, where you are now legally too cool to be considered just “older”. We have some bittersweet news about our beloved car. 🚗 We recently took it in for its TÜVContinue reading “Farewell, Aperoli 😘 “

2025 ~ Aperoli’s year

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”

Rally #10 ~ the end 🧡

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 🧡”

Rally #10_day4 🧡

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 🧡”

Rally #10_day3 🧡

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 🧡”

Rally #10_day2 🧡

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 🧡”

Rally #10_day1 🧡

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 🧡”