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Published: 7 May 2021 ~ See 1930s Buick at Fort XI Kaliningrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 29 April 2021, my wife, Olga, and I were invited to attend the Kaliningrad Retro Car Club\u2019s classic car rally, which was being held at Fort XI (Fort D\u00f6nhoff)<\/a>, the best preserved fort of K\u00f6nigsberg’s outer defensive circle. I wrote about Fort D\u00f6nhoff in an earlier post<\/a>, and one of the attractions of revisiting it was to see to what extent it had  developed in terms of restoration and as a regional tourist attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Needles to say, whilst there we snapped a good many photographs, both of the fort itself and of the cars exhibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One car that we photographed was not included in the photographic ensemble depicted in my last post, as it is not, as far as I can ascertain, owned by a member of the Retro Car Club and, besides, it is such an unusual vehicle to be stationed in this part of the world that I think that it deserves a post of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See 1930s Buick at Fort XI Kaliningrad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As you will see from the photographs provided, the car in question is a 1930s\u2019 American Buick ~ a must for anyone fascinated with early-to-mid 20th<\/sup> century American automobiles and the history of the period from the prohibition to the pre-war era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I confess that I haven\u2019t done my background work on this vehicle, but I am sure that there are any number of vintage automobile enthusiasts out there who will know exactly what model it is and its year of manufacture (most likely 1938?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did ask one of the Kaliningrad Retro Car Club members and received the indignant snort that \u201cit [the car] is only a shell!\u201d From which I understood that it is minus its engine. But even so, what a shell!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posing next to it I wished I had worn my 1930s\u2019 suit and Fedora and that I had retained a 1920s’ Thompson submachine gun from the days when I dealt in that sort of thing (deactivated, of course!). But without these props it was gratifying enough to be told that with the car in the background my wife and I could pass for Bonnie and Clyde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmmm, I\u2019m not sure whether our flatterer meant that we looked like the<\/em> Bonnie and Clyde or the owners of Bonny\u2019s Chip Shop in the Port of Barrow near Clyde?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what the heck! Even a back-handed compliment is better than no compliment! And anyway, who could hope to upstage such an epoch-making vehicle as this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1930s Buick at Fort XI<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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