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Happy Birthday 600!
Born in 1957 -60 years ago- the SEAT 600 It meant for Spain the popularization of the automobile: an affordable, reliable and capable domestic production vehicle for a family. It was the first car for many of them and also the starting point of a new culture and a new economic and social level. Although Renault landed a few years earlier, it was SEAT that conquered the national automobile market of the 60s thanks to a mythical model: the 600 ...
Four decades of the Porsche 928
Before the Cayenne SUV, the most groundbreaking Porsche title in history was held by the 928. Born forty years ago to be the new "leader of the pack", replacing 911, instead became a technological icon of Porsche engineering, paving the way for future models transaxle, like the current Panamera. We celebrate it with Porsche at Classic Auto Madrid. It seems true that the 911 is immortal: all the efforts made by rival brands - and by Porsche itself - to unseat it have been useless ...
The FIAT-Abarth 124 Rally is back
The Italian brands FIAT and Abarth had an intense relationship from the '50s to the' 70s but, from 1971, Carlo Abarth's firm became an integral part of the Turin giant, becoming its official coach. Its first product was the 124 Spider evolved for the World Rally Championship. Situation that is repeated today with its successor, the 124 R-GT. Forty years after his last official participation in the Monte Carlo Rally, the FIAT-Abarth 124 Spider come back to the load ...
On Vespa with Zalba Caldú
One more year, the insurance brokerage Zalba-Caldu, sponsor of the International Classic Vehicle Show in Madrid, will raffle a line Vespa vintage among all the visitors who come to your stand and make an insurance quote for a classic vehicle without obligation. The draw will take place live within the framework of ClassicAuto.
Golden Car of the Year '80
One more year, the Spanish Jury of the prestigious international award "Car of the Year" will attribute in Classic Auto Madrid a very special award: the "Golden" Car of the Year. If in 2015 the best car of the 60s was chosen (which went to the Renault 12) and in 2016 the one of the 70s (Renault 5), this year the first three classified in the COTY enter the competition again, but from the decade of the 80, that is to say, between 1981 and 1990. Thirty vehicles with very different trajectories ...
Club gatherings
The celebration of concentrations of classics is the activity that best represents the dynamic and participatory nature of Classic Auto Madrid. The Aves road with direct access to the Crystal Pavilion has traditionally been the site where these concentrations of classic hobbyist vehicles have been developed.
In 2016, and in view of the increase in participants registered in previous editions, we expanded the area devoted to this activity, generating dozens of new places. In 2017 we improve the space and signage so that no fan stops parking their classic in the vicinity of the Show.
Iberian Historic Endurance 2017 presentation
The most important organizer of classic races on the Iberian Peninsula -Iberian Historic Endurance- one more year will be presenting its calendar and sports plans at ClassicAuto Madrid. Iberian Historic Endurance will present its new racing season at ClassicAuto Madrid where it will also show some of its best participating cars. For the 2017 season, seven races on legendary circuits in Spain, Portugal, France and Belgium ...
Pre-1955 Convertible Elegance Contest
Classic Auto Madrid In 2017, it will host the sixth edition of the Elegance Contest, a contest already positioned among the most outstanding of those currently held in Europe for the quality of the vehicles in competition.
Throughout the previous five editions we have been able to admire authentic collector's items, and we have paid tribute to brands such as Posche and Alfa Romeo, and to various manufacturing segments. In this 2017 edition, the contest will be dedicated to automobiles before 1955 with convertible bodywork ...
Emilio de Villota and Formula 1
Forty years after his first victory in a Formula 1, ClassicAuto Madrid pays tribute to Emilio de Villota for his international sports career with single-seaters. For the occasion, the Lyncar-Ford 006 with which he achieved the triumph in Mallory Park in 1977 is being restored. Emilio de Villota was - in the '70s - more than a pilot: a visionary.
He understood that Motor Racing (with capital letters) was abroad and was a pioneer not only in racing outside our borders, but also in creating a team: the first Spanish team with a commercial name of modern Formula 1 ...
Car & Bike Corral
We will open the Car & Bike Corral space for another year to promote commercial exchange between individuals. Dedicated to the buying and selling of classic vehicles, automobiles and motorcycles, with more than 25 years old, the Car & Bike Corral is a fully consolidated initiative in the program of activities of ClassicAuto Madrid.
The maximum sale price of the vehicles in this space may not exceed 25.000 euros, because this platform is mainly aimed at promoting the sale of popular vehicles below this amount, thus also allowing access to the world of classic motoring for younger fans.
Monographic exhibitions: Firefighters, EMT, Militaria
In the DNA of Classic Auto Madrid there is the promotion of the history of the motor vehicle from all perspectives: industrial, economic, social, etc. Year after year, the program of monographic exhibitions are our contribution to this promotion. In this edition we will have three major exhibitions.
The Municipal Transport Company attends the Hall again to make a peculiar trip back in time. From the hand of the Madrid Fire Brigade we will be able to know in great detail how they faced, over the last century, the rescue and fire fighting work. Several historical vehicles from the Madrid Park will make up the exhibition that will host this edition.
The Don Rodrigo Foundation returns to the Salón de with its spectacular exhibition, showing its new armored vehicles participating in World War II, recently restored ...
Pre-1970 Motorcycle Restoration Contest
In 2017, the Motorcycle Restoration Contest, held within the framework of ClassicAuto Madrid, reaches its third edition. This is one of the youngest annual proposals that have been launched in the seven-year history of the Madrid Classics Hall and wants to pay tribute, how could it be otherwise, to those who dedicate their time and effort to recompose the history of the two wheels in our country.
This new edition of the Contest will be dedicated to the Spanish-made frames prior to 1970. Registration is free and open to all owners of a motorcycle with the characteristics that are the subject of the competition ...
The Zapp, the traveling family
In 2000, Herman and Candelaria boarded their historic 1928 Graham-Paige with the enriching intention of touring the world. From that trip they started with the idea of uniting their native Argentina and Alaska in a six-month journey. I hook the adventure and in it they have traveled 17 years and XNUMX countries of the five continents. This February they will visit ClassicAuto Madrid, accompanied by the four children who have been joining this experience. All of them, including the vehicle, will be in the Hall to tell us about some of the many experiences that they have captured in their book "Catch a dream."
Debates with arguments
In ClassicAuto Madrid we will have space to exchange arguments. The publications Classic Cars y Classic Engine will organize discussion tables in which some aspects of interest to fans of vehicles with history will be analyzed.
Fortune is also in ClassicAuto
Within the framework of the Hall, various giveaways. Visitors who deposit the ballot included in their ticket in the ballot box will be able to participate in the raffle for a magnificent Steve McQueen "Le Mans" leather jacket from the firm GrandPrix-Originals. The draw will be held on Sunday, February 26, at 19.00:XNUMX p.m.
* News prepared by press release
