DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Yeah, top story Jeremy. Great way to connect with your Dad and rare enough to open doors to all sorts of interesting events. I hope they give you the original reg number Thanks Hugo. It’s strange to have bought a car I’ve never driven, but hey, it’ll be an emotional journey for all sorts of reasons...

sladey wrote:Brilliant story, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the next installment.

Thanks Mark. Glad you enjoyed it - I’ll try and post an update from Germany

A few weeks after hearing that the owner didn’t want to sell the Monterey BMW 319, I found I still had a growing desire to experience that type of motoring, and I went back over my past emails. It was 9 years since I’d been given the name of the guy in Germany who’d supposedly restored my father’s c...

I’d be very happy to travel there.

He was great, and he entirely understood my quest. In the car world you can make a lot of true acquaintances. I let him know what I’d eventually found out and he was grateful for that.

The car was still with the agents who consigned it onto Bring a Trailer - Mohr Imports in Monterey, where the really good pictures were shot presumably. Not having bid in the auction I was nervous they wouldn’t talk to me - but at least I got this response https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240323/a...

One way and another. By googling combinations of German ‘Counts’ and BMW’s and god knows what I suddenly hit upon what could be a link. Wiki again “ In 1984, Christian Conzendorf-Mattner accompanied by Dennis Greenslade covered the route from Land's End to John o'Groats-there and back non-stop other...

Another of the letters on the BaT auction site was one sent to the DVLA. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240323/0e6f0e6649a067bb97aee46a5bf50f47.jpg So this was in 2005 just after a Phil Evans has bought the car in Dodds Sales Room in Mold Flintshire, where it was being sold on behalf of the High...

The auction materials included invoices for work done when the car was in the UK. One was from Roach Manufacturing Ltd - a well respected restorers/manufacturers in Hampshire. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240323/144db9ab64addaff3b6470044cb7423a.jpg On the slim off chance that someone might rem...

Yes - more coming.. and I suggested Megaphonics again purely as it needs no organisation. Anyone interested buys a ticket, and we agree a time and place where we can meet up beforehand and convoy in. A bit of Blue Peter badge production would help each of us recognise fellow members.. Anyway - back ...

I know it looks like this post shouldn’t be in Classic Porsche chat but as it involves (along the way) AFN, some Classic Porsche and a Porsche addict I thought it might be allowed. Hopefully it’ll distract from our current indecision as to where to have a national DDK meet (for my monies worth we sh...

Sorry to hear that Thomas. Get well soon

So. Rather than opt for something more central to suit the widest number we’re going with CatC are we? Kind of been there and done that, numerous times. Nothing wrong with the event, but personally I find the Boxengasse Megaphonics a more funky event - better food, good music , great cars and presen...

Where’s the East Midlands?

Oh heck.We’ll all just come round to your’s.