AP:  Tell us about yourself and when you became interested in cars?

Grobmotorix: I was born in 1972 near Rothenburg ob der Tauber/Bavaria and I was told afterwards that "Auto" seems to have been one of my very first words...

AP:  What was your first car?

Grobmotorix: Citroen AX LeNoir, 1989

AP:  What is your daily driver?

Grobmotorix: Opel Astra Caravan, 1993

AP:   What classic(s) or special cars do you currently have? What made you choose to buy it?

Grobmotorix: None

AP:   Have you ever just missed buying a particular car, and lived to regret it?

Grobmotorix: Jawa 1938 600ccm 2 stroke convertible / Mercedes 300E W124 Station Wagon / Citroen Ami 6, all real bargains, but...

AP:   What would be your dream car?

Grobmotorix: Phantom Corsair

AP:   Which car do you regret having parted company with?

Grobmotorix: Ford Sierra Turnier 2.0i DOHC

AP:   What is your favorite drive in your classic or special car?

Grobmotorix: Autobahn /   Morocco / Fränkische Schweiz  / Eifel / Switzerland... (don´t relly know if I got the question right....)

AP:   How much work on your car(s) do you carry out yourself?

Grobmotorix: Everything I can do, but I don´t want to, either...

AP:   What do you carry with you go out in your car(s)?

Grobmotorix: 250 year old iron bolts from Belgium, piles of scrap, loads of old tapes, a cd-radio I didn´t have the time to install.

AP:   Do you get involved in the club scene, and why?

Grobmotorix: I am only involved in the literature collector´s scene, cause I´ve started with it when I was 8 years old. I´ve collected ca. 25.000 different sales brochure from ca. 1920-today.  Now I´ve switched over to automotive books and digital pics (ca.100.000 different in ca. 5500 files) and talking to people on the internet that ask strange questions like those here and identifying old pics of boring old cars...

AP:   Do you take an interest in motor sport, and if so where is your favorite venue(s)/club meeting(s)?

Grobmotorix: I like rallye and autocross events, current and vintage.

AP:   What is your worst memory involving a car?

Grobmotorix: Driving back from work at night through the deep bavarian forest I drove through a curve and after it I saw the lights of a car approaching. 100 m before we´d pass the 2 light  changed into 4 and there was no way for 3 side by side so I had to go into the green. I had very much luck and was able to drive home with my slightly damaged car after being towed out of the mud.

AP:   What is your funniest memory involving a car?

Grobmotorix: Changing the outer left (and only free lane of three)driving lane on the Aachen-Düsseldorf Autobahn within an construction site at 120 km/h at night to give way to an Emergency Vehicle that came up from behind. Problem was it was a construction site and there was no more other driving lane...I managed to stop the car in a more or less controlled way, the left 2 wheels on the asphalt of the still existing outer left driving lane and the right wheels 50 cm lower in the construction hole.

I had much luck, some other workers managed to lift  my car out of the hole with an excavator and I drove home with my slightly damaged Sierra. I never looked under it after that incident. No rattles no problems. 1 year later I gave it to the scrap...

AP:   What is your most enjoyable moment involving a car?

Grobmotorix: Once I had a crazy ride on the Autobahn between Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Würzburg in Bavaria. It was 1:00 AM in the night, there was 20cm of fresh snow and underneath a  massive layer of ice.

Nobody else drove there and I had a 160 km/h hell-ride, the falling snow in the glow of my  front lights made me feel like Luke Skywalker going with hypersonic speed.

There had been some other scenes, too...

As a ten year old we were allowed to drive around in a rear engined old Simca 1000 at the scrapyard of a friend father. It ended up in a ditch after some minutes, totally shattered and destroyed by three kids that had a terrific day. but I don´t want to destroy too much useful webspace, so I´d better stop here with the most enjoyable moments in a car...

AP:   Best road food?

Grobmotorix: Turkish Kebap house at Nuremberg´s Friedrich-Ebert-Platz at Bucher Straße. Best Börek ever...

AP:   How would you define a 'classic'?

Grobmotorix: A combination of style, design, sometimes drama, sometimes perfection. There are many cars I´d define a classic, others I wouldn´t.

So "classic" is mainly used as a mainstream word for those cars with prestige and/or legendary creators/owners/stories.

AP:   What in your opinion, is the worst car regarded as a 'classic' and why?

Grobmotorix: East German Trabant. Just watch old films how they were produced or take a deep breath when one passes you by...

AP:   What in your view will be a future classic?

Grobmotorix: Fiat Multipla, first version.

AP:   What question would you like to ask and who to?

Grobmotorix: "It´s cold in the Bugatti - so, will you wear your silk scarf ?" I´d ask that to Isadora Duncan.  

AP:   What car publications / car websites do you regularly read?

Grobmotorix: www.flickr.com, www.seriouswheels.com and www.emercedesbenz.com.