VintagEuro was born out of a shared passion for “classic European motoring.” As car-crazy American kids growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, we were more drawn to the unconventional machinery coming from across the Atlantic than the Detroit iron that dominated the landscape then. We got driver’s license when you could still walk into dealers that sold stuff from Germany, Italy, England, Sweden, or France. Sometimes all under one roof.
And while “classic” can mean different things to different people, we define it as the era after World War II until about the end of the 1990s. The actual boundaries are a little fuzzy – they’re more qualitative than a specific point in time. Suffice it to say turbos were rare and exotic, touchscreens didn’t really exist, and three pedals on the floor was the norm.
In this time, the brands we know and love today (car and motorcycle manufacturers alike) were truly unique, each one earning its own reputation, for better or for worse. Some were performance cars with racing pedigrees; others were pure expressions of unrestrained design or luxury. Many were little more than charismatic junk, but we came to love them for what they were.
So that’s what we celebrate here at VintagEuro. We embrace the unique and varied histories of all the great brands from Alfa Romeo to Zundapp. We honor the great designers and coachbuilders. We toast the racing teams and drivers that made legendary places like Le Mans and Monza and Silverstone. And we still marvel at what it must have been like to do a continental “grand tour” in simpler times.
In short, we revel in the greatest era of motoring as we knew it. So come along and join us.
