Only "old people" go in the rally

The temple of Basil Blessed, where there are always many foreigners, this Sunday there were especially a lot of "Germans"-the Moscow Mercedes-Benz classic Club conducted Mercedes Classic Day. Cars with a three -beam star in even Nordic rows stood on the Vasilievsky descent, then just as measured, one car per minute, to go in a mileage where many of the Merzov found their second homeland - to Rublevka.

A prerequisite for participation in the run was age - not younger than 1970. Older - please. But there were no peols of the stroller of Benz and the 20s car-after all, a real mileage, and not the exposition of the old-name at the car dealership. The old people in the column represented the 320th convertible of 1938. He defeated the younger "old people". True, there was still a car of an unknown year from captured, taken out of Germany after the Second World War.

The "youth" of the last permitted - 1970 - represented the Pagoda 280 SL - a class with a kind of curved in the middle of the roof. Under the 13th number there was another Pagoda-older than the most massive (if I may talk about old-time) on Mercedes Classic Day became Mercedes 190 SL.

What is the collection of classic "Mercedes" without the famous "wing of the Seagull"? In the 50s, only three and small thousand Mercedes 300 SL Gull Wing were released. One such car started on June 15 from Vasilyevsky descent.

The clouds happily went around the Kremlin. The owners of the convertibles, throwing a soft top, looping from one -sided Moscow, cut it to Kutuzovsky Prospekt. But before you go on a run with the elements of the "classic rally" (the competition is not at speed, but for the accuracy of the specified route and the schedule of movement), the classic "Mercedes" were exhibited for public viewing. Among the obsessions, there were also those who were discharging on Leninsky Prospekt "Nash", and foreign tourists, and simply random passers -by.

It was curious to see on the Vasilievsky descent two cars of not “truly Aryan” blood-a restored 403rd Muscovite in 1965 in an export execution (participant of Rally Monte Carlo) and a small but powerful right-handed British “triumph” of 1958. Informate cars were piloted by journalists - Alexander Pikulenko from Echo of Moscow and Maxim Kadakov from "Autoreva".

In the competition for accuracy, the power of the motor does not play such a role as in modern rally competitions, where high -speed areas are especially important. Therefore, it is not surprising that the winner was just the very pre -war convertible, ruled by Vadim Zadorozhny from the Moscow Automobile Club of Connection and Roomers. According to the rules, if the teams gain the same number of penalty points (for untimely passage of control points), then an old car has an advantage. The second and third places were taken by the "mass" 190SL.