Alright... let's see how much I manage to filter my pictures.
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Roadtrip began for
@shad_68 and me at a fuel station where our routes to the starting point converged, that means about 2 km from my home and 1.5 from his.
We didn't waste any time taking pictures, but set off immediately after confirming our radios were tuned to the same channel.
Some two and a half hours later, we met the others at the
P.S. Speicher in Einbeck, a museum for old cars, but mainly old motorcycles. The name comes from the fact that the building used to be a granary.
Now that's an entrance. No, we didn't use the driving simulator (Porsche 911 at Silverstone), mainly because it was occupied.
@leviathan had a go in another simulator, of course (see above).
The outside "parking" was very promising, but these were totally different than what was inside.
The exhibition was organized so you had to begin at the top floor and then move downwards following the timeline. So the lift was a "time machine" playing a video to get you into the mood. The length of the video was probably why this was the slowest lift ever. On the other hand, luxuriously spacious. And with chairs.
What is the definition of one horsepower? Glad we cleared that up.
A Benz Motorwagen,
the first car. I'm pretty sure this is a replica, but I admit I don't know how many were made.
Now that's going around in style. There were many, many more and very strange early motorcycles - see for example the one with the rotating engine in the front wheel that
@calvinhobbes already posted.
Someone did have a lot of work putting up some WW2 scenery...
Some 1950's scooter with a ridiculous amount of bodywork.
Scooter with trailer, why not. The many different motorcycle/scooter concepts up to the 1950s were really interesting.
Amphibious car! The worst of both worlds!
Is this art or can it be thrown away?
Hnnnnnng.
One of several
Münch bikes.
That looks totally safe and not at all prone to fall over.
Painting titled "Two Fiats". Sure, if you say so...
Apart from the regular and rather bike-heavy exhibition, they also had a special exhibition consisting of a few classic Opels.
And another one dedicated to small cars. Which is saying something, given that most vehicles in their regular collection were not what I'd call large.
Peel P50!
Special for
@public
Nice pun. "Café St. Spirit" and the address is "Ghost Street".
We found Einbeck to be a really nice old town. Well, small and therefore boring, but at least nice. The half-timbered houses were not exactly straight though. All part of the charme.
This concluded day 1. We dispersed to our accomodations, and the next day went on to start the roadtrip properly.
Fast-forward to the first lunch stop. Teslas were thirsty. Or hungry? Hm...
While the petrol-powered cars simply waited.
While we tried to find a restaurant that let us in. Kebap joint said "only takeout" so we went upstairs to have some Chinese instand.
Afterwards, we continued our totally straight route through the Harz that was for sure the shortest way to get through the points of interest.
Weather was more or less rainy, with some legitimate rainstorm from time to time. Luckily, this would improve vastly throughout the rest of the trip.
At the top of the Brocken mountain.
@Adrian shows where to go.
That's an adapter. The railway up the Brocken is narrow gauge, so they have to use these to get cars with standard gauge up there.
At the station down in town (well, "town"), the shop has
very specific opening times...
We again went to different accomodations and then met up in the city centre of Wernigerode to get dinner. The people of that town will not be impeded by a barrier and a sign saying "pedestrians forbidden because of falling roof tiles"!
Our hotel was also nicely railway-themed.
More to come in subsequent posts. Stay tuned...