tv Reporter Deutsche Welle April 1, 2019 8:45am-9:01am CEST
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cart. two brothers with cars in their hearts and engines on their minds. stuck up a little coffee. a little you should see the weather forecast isn't that good but we're going anyway. meaning. it's seven am and the brothers are setting off on their winter journey south twelve hundred kilometers across the alps. well if you up ahead you see the slovenian border after that comes the croatian border. good now we're in croatia. a low
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coming home. early look at you guys love you or their friend has the same interests and a junkyard that's where they're headed that's when the movie go out and it's going to be able to anyone can join in another by tweet that's no problem. you know and. we're going to look up the next morning there were. 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 diamonds. abolish i think the plan is in for us to keep doing this for twenty years like maybe another ten and then we'll be chilling might be on how. they put into the island of rocks.
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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 this like you basically he does the same thing we do except that he thresher lies in expensive luxury cars he doesn't sell them we take a different approach vintage cars are for everyone you don't. even own and so what on want their vintage cars to be street worthy not just as an investment or a shiny bauble for the garage. at first glance they seem to have plenty to choose from. for the growth of the. 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
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the air they can stand here forever with the oldest being a. group of us over there are so many beautiful concierge fiat's beetles volvo's everything. that city for the living. but one in particular catches their eye and they take a closer look up close and locked is that all these were real cause. you had room to think of this it was not too bad. i don't think the antenna so much of. the brothers inspect the body the interior and the engine in detail it looks like it would take a lot of work to get it in shape. a few feet in. the . wash let me tell you. what do we do the shift boss you're also boss i'll take the risk i'll go for
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a third thing i do some of the 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 to live. on to see as to this we're going to politically. he quickly makes room for the that. he lifts the junk away from the hidden gems. of the old like yourself over there to montpellier i. love. you.
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it's a kind of heavy metal playground it can even be fun. let it slip. hold things up with the open have to keep an eye on it so the hook is in the way and i hope lift. no rust. here has got a hold. here michael everything is still original and unwell that. it's now we've got four months to get its way it looks like new hope it all works out. for office club to. please both lawyers. if it all goes well we'll have some money left over. but if
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you figure in the hours under the bottom line you don't earn a thing for them 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. you keep on and sought on are qualified autumn mechanics but cars like these have little to do with today's mechatronics. the trip back to germany takes them another twelve hundred and fifty kilometers back across the alps but this time hauling a heavy load. they. live
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they arrive safely in felda stocked with a cadet. they have four months to live in tips car fare hike all that's enough isn't it i'll push. can you get in. because i'm. not quite like. 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 of on the ten career has a lot of work to do. this little select is not that that. people . will see what we can use and could knock on well some of those molds of starting with the nose will remove the grill to expose the metal and get busy with the sanding of life. as a restored vintage car it can fetch
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a good price what are the brothers think of electric cars. we're falling we definitely want to drive again he calls but do you want to drive one faulty over. with i don't like the i like the internal combustion engines much better quality for when it's model even with the cars on the road all the still get the particulates. the tires cause the particulates when you break. it's not just the combustion engine. 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 vintage car fair the white that has to be finished by then. good.
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the junk heap is gradually transformed into a gem for connoisseurs. with mostly it has to be thorough polished so it really shines as smooth as a baby's bottom limited i'll have to think about the best way to work the linkage since i've got two carburetors here and have to extend the linkage and bring it over here to the exact center so you can give it more gas and. that's it you've got great ideas thank goodness i've got you covered the. bones yeah we've just two days to go we get some real stress when we see the cars aren't finished yet. oh you can't help that we'll stay through the night if need be. a bundle so it's all on the other hand it doesn't help to get all worked up. well i don't want a heart attack right. now
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the reynolds finished and the oakland pretty much is to focus. even on sort on are 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. and had lost the old bangers here. the drugs really well it joins other treasures on the floor the restorers are in their elementary year and the debt it's
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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 rating nice. it's a cocoa in in fantastic condition. called almost was sold a couple of cars already know and all red and pink fiat's was on and i am all for the rain over the best and there wasn't even another one here. we've had lots of enquiries about the opal cadet but nobody scrap to get if not they'll stay with us the life of a. god i
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