tv Reporter Deutsche Welle April 1, 2019 7:02am-7:16am CEST
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the fun and sort out our auto mechanics by trade now we've got four months to bring it back to life and get it looking like you know. their favorite pursuit is restoring vintage cars they find twenty of them in their mother's home country in croatia. the two brothers have a workshop near stock cart. two brothers with cars in their hearts and engines on their minds. stuck up a little coffee. for the law usually the weather forecast isn't that good but we're going anyway. to meet meet him. it's seven am and the brothers are setting off on their winter journey south twelve hundred
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kilometers across the alps. all of whom up ahead you see the slovenian border after that comes the croatian border. good now bring croatia. to load. up on their loved one go to you guys love you for their friend has the same interests and a junkyard that's where they're headed once you know maybe. they're going to be able to anyone can join in another bite to eat that's no problem at all. you know. but it was a good the next morning they were in roshan it's a near split the brothers are looking for an old car they can restore for an upcoming vintage car show. they make this trip four times a year in search of rough automotive dine. it's like. the
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plan isn't for us to keep doing this for twenty years maybe another ten and then we'll be chilling might be oh now. they put into the island of rocks. their destination lies in an almost grove a very special junkyard but not every clunker is fit to be restored. a peek under the hood is a glimpse of automotive history. you know their friend has some real treasures here . in boulder so i'm used to like you basically he does the same thing we do except that he specializes in expensive luxury cars he doesn't sell them we take a different approach vintage cars offer everyone you don't. even own and so don't want their vintage cars to be street worthy not just as an investment or a shiny bauble for the garage.
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at first glance they seem to have plenty to choose from. for the growth of the. business movement this is really the finest junk out in the world what's good is that nothing happens to the cause they don't rust this badly from the air they can stand here forever with the oldest in your. group most of the so many beautiful cars here fiat's beetles volvo's everything all of the credit city for the fifty five but one in particular catches their eye and they take a closer look absolutely blocked because there's all these were real cause. you had room to think of this it was not too bad. i don't think the antennas are much. the brothers inspect the body the interior and the engine in detail it looks like
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it would take a lot of work to get it in shape. if you. watch them or your. boss what do we do the shift boss is you're also boss i'll take the risk i'll go for it good thing i've been to some of them they work out a price with i'm to the junk dealer. but how can they get the clunker untangled from the rest of the junk. and has he used to this particular political climate he quickly makes ready for the head that. he lifts the junk away from the hidden gems. of the open like give. and take i.
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now we've got four months to get its way it looks like new hope it all works out. it's office club to. this group lawyers. if it all goes well we'll have some money left over. but if you figure in the hours under the bottom line you don't earn a thing so that it's all for the love of old cars and seeing them back on the streets in the shop when they've got a spare moment rather than stand around will work on these cars to fill the down time. they tracked down old cars in croatia and bring them to germany where for example the opel cadette was a sort of nine hundred seventy s. cult car. even and sold on are qualified autumn mechanics but cars like these have little to do with today's mechatronics.
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the trip back to germany takes them another twelve hundred and fifty kilometers back across the alps but this time hauling a heavy load. you know. live they arrived safely and filled a shot with a cadet. they have four months to live in touch carfare so i call that's enough isn't it i'll push. can you get in. i'm. not quite. getting. it. you're not reaching you know you i think somebody must have lived in it. now even has to rely on his talent for tracking down original parts and sort on the tinkerer
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has a lot of work to do. to fix little select is not that that. people . we'll see what we can use. the mouse on the small time starting with the nose wheel remove the grill to expose the metal and get busy with the sanding of life. as a restored vintage car it can fetch a good price what are the brothers think of electric cars. you're falling we definitely want to drive again he calls but do you want to try what you found me a little. with i don't like this i like the internal combustion engines much better quality for granted some of those even with the cars on the road of you still get the particulates. the tires cause the particulates when you break. it's not just the combustion engine because it's worked out and you don't hear the electric drive and i'm not into that you have to hear an engine what's nice about vintage cars is that the historical you can always drive them. not much time remains till the
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vintage car fare the white that has to be finished by then. the junk heap is gradually transformed into a gem for connoisseurs. with mostly it has to be thorough and polished so it really shines as smooth as a baby's bottom when you didn't have to think about the best way to work the linkage since i've got to carburetors here and have to extend the linkage and bring it over here to the exact center so you can give it more gas. that's it you've got great ideas thank goodness i've got you covered. with just two days to
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go we get some real stress when we see the cars i'm finished yet. i'll can't help that we'll stay through the night if need be. on the on the other hand it doesn't help to get all worked up. when we don't want a heart attack right. then we should now the reynolds finished and the opal pretty much has to be felt. even unsought i'm taking five for stuart cars to the fair but will they be able to sell any as a reward for their stress and effort. the brothers are regulars at the fair bringing newly restored cars every year.
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and at last the old bangers here. drives really well it joins other treasures on the floor the restorers are in their elementary year and the opal cadet it's attracting lots of looks and attention. even and zone's vintage cars stand out among all the luxury and classic cars. i don't think that our drive gets as a young man several of them the color schemes rady nice. it's a cocoa and in fantastic condition. was sold a couple of cars already know and the red and pink fiat's was on end of the rainbow
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was the best kind and there wasn't even another one here. with had lots of enquiries about the opal cadet but nobody's grabbed it yet if not it will stay with us. it was the result of i don't know it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about. do this because we can't stay on venezuela like. that. closely global news that matters d.w. made for mines. a city in ruins maro a. symbol of a long conflict in the philippines. between the muslims and the christian
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