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  • [Brandenberg Concerto No. 4 in G playing]

  • Carl: [Narrative] Cars, we love 'em. They're sleek and stylish and just fun to look at.

  • European cars have a look all their own and one of the best European car shows

  • is held right here, in Shelby, North Carolina.

  • Hey, Tom.

  • Hi, Carl.

  • How you doing?

  • Fine, how are you doing?

  • Well, I'm doing great. Well, you certainly got a lot of nice cars here.

  • We do.

  • Tell me -- tell me about your event. Tom: Okay, it's the Broad River European Classic.

  • It's sponsored by the Broad River European Motor Club,

  • rather than a British Car Club,

  • which they're pretty common in this area. We wanted to be a European car club

  • to include cars other than British cars, German and Italian, etcetera.

  • Carl: Now, these are some amazing cars. I notice --

  • I notice a little bit of the difference here with the European cars

  • that are on display here and some of our American car shows,

  • that they're much larger. Tom: Yes.

  • Why are the cars -- why are the European cars smaller?

  • Well, because they're sports cars

  • and they were designed like that, for road handling, primarily.

  • There's a few of the cars, European cars that are larger, Rolls-Royce, Bentley.

  • We have some of those here, but basically the sports cars are on the smaller scale.

  • Okay. Alright, what's the most valuable car here?

  • I know that might be a little subjective, but I'm sure there are monetary amounts

  • placed on these vintage cars.

  • Probably the most valuable car in our show today is the 1929 Bugatti racecar.

  • It was built as a racecar, but was never raced and it's valued at about $3 million.

  • Wow, that's incredible.

  • This is a type 35A.

  • In 1929, this was a spare backup pre-Grand Prix racer.

  • That they used to race back in the old days. It was never raced.

  • Carl: Never?

  • Simply because, they didn't have a reason for it.

  • If they crashed a car, they would just jump in another car and go racing again.

  • And that's what this car was for?

  • That's what this car -- purposely built. Now, this particular one takes two people to drive

  • and I'm going to show you why.

  • Now racing, you have to keep up your oil pressure. Carl: Right.

  • This is your oil pressure. This is what the co-pilot does. They were called pilots and co-pilots.

  • Carl: Okay.

  • And the co-pilot would operate all of the fuel,

  • like keep the fuel pressure on. The co-pilot was also responsible for advancing

  • and retarding the timing to give you more speed going uphill or downhill,

  • or street lining. That gives you more speed.

  • But if you look down here, and see all the web work of chains,

  • and how all the chains, and brakes, and the valves, and everything,

  • are done in such a way, the co-pilot's job was to get more oil pressure or less oil pressure,

  • depending on what the gauge said.

  • Carl: Wow.

  • And that was his job. But one thing people don't realize,

  • is at the turn of the century there was over 90 car manufacturers in Europe

  • that were racing before Henry Ford ever decided to build a car.

  • Carl: [Narative] There's so many different types of cars on display,

  • each one with a distinctive engineering style and a fascinating story.

  • What is this here? That's a good looking car.

  • Tom: That is a 1946 MGTC, the sports car that really

  • brought sports cars to the United States, from Europe.

  • Of course, the first sports car built in this country was a 1954 Chevrolet corvette.

  • Okay and they were inspired by -

  • Tom: Inspired by this particular car.

  • Carl: Alright, so that's got a lot of, not only European history,

  • but also American history.

  • Tom: It has, yes.

  • Wait a minute. Is that the Rolls there?

  • The first one is a Bentley.

  • So the Bentley is here.

  • Tom: The second is a Rolls.

  • Probably that Rolls is one of my favorite cars.

  • Carl: The Rolls is?

  • Yes.

  • Well, let's go take a look at that.

  • Well, Tom, so Richard owns this car. You think he'll mind if we look inside?

  • Oh, no. Not at all.

  • Okay let's -- wow, look at that. So now, the year of this car --

  • 1934.

  • Carl: So this is a 1934. Is this pretty much original?

  • Tom: Oh, yes.

  • Carl: So this is the original car as it would've been. Wow.

  • You also need to see the toolkit in the trunk that came with the Rolls-Royce.

  • So that's a nice, organized toolset?

  • It certainly is.

  • Mines not that organized, Tom.

  • It's amazing that in 1934, they went through the effort to produce something like that.

  • Carl: They were really built to last, weren't they?

  • Tom: They were, yes.

  • But this one seems to be in especially good condition.

  • It is.

  • Yea, it's a beautiful car. So this is a Roll's Royce?

  • A beautiful automobile and worth, I'm guessing probably $250,000 or there

  • There about, yes.

  • Wow, that's great. I'd like to see more of these on the Carolina roads.

  • That'd be good.

  • Tom: Yes.

  • Carl: Now, tell me about this. This is the Bentley?

  • Tom: The Bentley, uh-huh. This particular car has been restored.

  • Okay, okay so this was a restoration?

  • Yes.

  • Carl: I imagine there are a lot of restorations compared to completely original cars.

  • Oh, yes. There are.

  • Tom: [Narrative] Well, it's official. European cars are cool.

  • And, we've got a couple of places in the Carolinas

  • that we can actually come and see some of these great, European cars.

  • I didn't really know about all the history of European cars and their influence on American cars,

  • but as it turns out, there is some.

  • Well, look at this. This is a DeLorean. It says the last of the DeLoreans.

  • Well, this is a good car for time travel,

  • so I kind of feel like we're time traveling, a little bit,

  • when we come to some of these car shows.

  • All kinds of car shows in the Carolinas

  • from our American vintage cars, and of course these great European cars.

  • [Brandenberg Concerto No. 4 in G playing]

[Brandenberg Concerto No. 4 in G playing]

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