The morning session this Saturday, November 9, exceeded all the organizers’ expectations. RACC and City Council They provided all the logistics for an interesting event. The Neighborhood Association of Tibidado Avenue in Barcelonaintroduced to Alex Scheffler, its president, and Jaime Alguersuari, vice president but also a former driver, promoter and motor journalist, He put feeling into it, a lot of feeling, and good validation.
Tibidabo Avenue is filled with classic cars and motorcycles in commemorating 110 years of the Tibidabo Cupa leading motor test in Barcelona and that this Saturday brought together more than 20,000 people, whole families, motor fans and citizens who experienced a unique exhibition at the district, street and citizen level, with the presence, among others, of mayor Jaume Collboni and the lieutenant of the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Maria Eugenia Gay.
The spectacular exhibition featured 250 vehicles (cars and motorcycles) from between 1900 and 1975 and was accompanied by a popular festival where the Castellers de Sarrià and the La Vella Dixieland orchestra performed. All to commemorate 110 years of Tibidabo Cup, a competition organized by the RACC in 1914 starting at the end of Balmes Street and arriving at what is now Plaza del Doctor Andreu.
“The competitions were then organized around the city but the Tibidabo Cup was the first to be held within the city,” he recalled. Josep Mateu, RACC President. The tribute to ‘crazy people with their crazy gadgets’ also served to request the return of the emblematic Tramvia Blau, which stopped working a few years ago and whose return seems, now, to be on the right track, although in the medium long term.
Among the cars presented is the only survivor of the Tibidabo Cup held in 1914. The Hispano Switzerland Alfonso XIII, made in Barcelona and which became a benchmark at the highest level of the automotive sector.
Alex Scheffler, president of the Avinguda Tibidabo Veïns Association, wants to prove the automotive heritage that Catalonia has: “These cars should stay in this land, not be sold abroad.”
Regarding the two wheels, he emphasized the Ossa de Santi Herrero -a historic brand based in the Catalan capital- and the Honda NSR250 where the Catalan Sito Pons won the first 250 cc world title.
The festive touch of the day was provided by the performances of the La Vella Dixieland orchestra and the Castellers de Sarrià. There was also hot chocolate with churros for the early risers, as well as an exhibition with historical photos of the Tibidado Cup of 1914 and an interesting one of the first council of the Tibidabo Joint Stock Company, which urbanize the Avenue and built El Tibidabo Amusement Park.
Source: La Verdad
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