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tellement nombreuses qu’il est possible d’assembler<br />

une voiture complète. C’est ainsi qu’est née la<br />

reproduction de voitures d’époque, qui<br />

malheureusement, dans le pire des cas, est devenue<br />

une escroquerie.<br />

J’ai acheté ma première voiture ancienne il y a<br />

environ 35 ans et, depuis lors, j’ai rencontré<br />

beaucoup d’amis qui partagent ma passion. Au fil du<br />

temps nous sommes arrivés à la conclusion que<br />

l’essence de notre mouvement est la conservation<br />

d’autos dans leurs conditions originales, comme<br />

elles avaient été projetées par leur constructeur et<br />

telles qu’elles étaient pendant leur période<br />

historique. Malheureusement j’ai également<br />

constaté une excessive légèreté dans la façon dont<br />

d’autres soi-disant collectionneurs d’automobiles<br />

concevaient l’authenticité. En réalité on a constaté<br />

l’existence d’une sous-culture autour des<br />

reproductions d’auto d’époque, qui me paraît être le<br />

danger le plus grave rencontré jusqu’ici pour notre<br />

mouvement.<br />

Laissez-moi illustrer par quelques exemples des<br />

reproductions, des répliques, quel que soit le nom<br />

que l’on veut donner à ces automobiles re-fabriquées<br />

des années après leur période historique,<br />

indépendamment du but recherché. Toutefois l’une<br />

des principales causes est sans aucun doute l’avidité.<br />

Malheureusement j’ai rencontré beaucoup de<br />

personnes qui ont reconstruit des automobiles qui<br />

avaient été détruites bien des années auparavant,<br />

suite à des accidents de course, ou bien après avoir<br />

été jetées aux oubliettes par des propriétaires<br />

indifférents. En d’autres mots: des autos qui avaient<br />

cessé d’exister ont été dans un certain sens<br />

ressuscitées. Un brin de bon sens suffit à<br />

comprendre que ces autos sont des faux et, dans un<br />

certain sens, sans aucune valeur.<br />

fino al punto in cui sono talmente tanti i pezzi<br />

costruiti che con essi si può assemblare un’intera<br />

automobile. Così nasce il duplicato di auto d’epoca e,<br />

sfortunatamente, nel peggiore dei casi possibili,<br />

anche la truffa.<br />

Ho acquistato la mia prima auto storica circa 35 anni<br />

fa e, da allora, ho incontrato molti amici che<br />

condividono la mia passione. Negli anni siamo<br />

arrivati a ritenere, dal nostro punto di vista, che<br />

l’essenza del nostro movimento sia la conservazione<br />

di un’auto nelle sue condizioni originali, così come<br />

era stata pensata dal costruttore e come si<br />

presentava ai suoi tempi. Purtroppo ho anche<br />

constatato un’eccessiva leggerezza nel modo in cui<br />

altri cosiddetti collezionisti concepivano l’autenticità<br />

delle proprie automobili. In verità è emersa un’intera<br />

sottocultura intorno alle riproduzioni di auto d’epoca,<br />

cosa che a me pare il pericolo fin’ora più grave che si<br />

sia presentato per il nostro movimento.<br />

Lasciate che vi faccia qualche esempio delle<br />

riproduzioni, repliche, comunque vogliamo chiamare<br />

quelle automobili ri-fabbricate molti anni dopo il loro<br />

periodo storico, qualsiasi sia stato lo scopo. L’avidità<br />

degli esseri umani, comunque, è di sicuro uno degli<br />

impulsi principali. Sfortunatamente ho incontrato<br />

molte persone che hanno ricostruito automobili che<br />

erano state distrutte molti anni prima, in seguito ad<br />

incidenti in gara, oppure abbandonate nel<br />

dimenticatoio da proprietari privi di interesse. In<br />

altre parole: auto che avevano smesso di esistere<br />

sono state in un certo senso fatte risuscitare. Anche<br />

solo un briciolo di senso comune ci può far capire che<br />

queste auto sono dei falsi e, in un certo senso, anche<br />

prive di valore.<br />

Ho anche notato che, oggi, si possono comprare, o<br />

persino ordinare, modelli storici importanti completi,<br />

come le Bugatti tipo 35. Pare che una ditta argentina<br />

L’AUTOMOBILE: PATRIMOINE CULTUREL, MEMOIRE IN<strong>DU</strong>STRIELLE<br />

L’AUTOMOBILE, PATRIMONIO CULTURALE E MEMORIA IN<strong>DU</strong>STRIALE<br />

THE AUTOMOBILE, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND IN<strong>DU</strong>STRIAL MEMORY<br />

Wim Oude Weernink, NL - Ecrivain et Journaliste<br />

to share the passion. And over the years, it became<br />

our personal view that preserving a car in its original<br />

condition, as it was meant to be by its manufacturer,<br />

and seen in its time, is the essence of our movement.<br />

But I have also seen how light-hearted some other<br />

so-called collectors thought about authenticity of<br />

their automobiles.<br />

Actually a complete sub-culture around replica<br />

vehicles has emerged, and it seems to me a more<br />

serious threat to our movement than ever before.<br />

Let me give you some examples of replicas,<br />

recreations or whatever name we tend to give to<br />

those cars that were remanufactured for whatever<br />

reason many years later than history has told us.<br />

But the greediness of human beings is certainly one<br />

of the main drivers. Unfortunately, I have met people<br />

who had recreated vehicles which were destroyed<br />

many years before, following motor racing accidents,<br />

or out if disinterest by previous owners. In others<br />

words: cars that had stopped to exist were more or<br />

less reborn. Any common sense would tell that such<br />

cars are fakes and to a certain extend also worthless.<br />

I have also noticed that, today, you can buy, and even<br />

made to order, complete important historical models<br />

such as Bugatti type 35. An Argentine firm is said to<br />

have already supplied more than a dozen such fakes<br />

to buyers who call them self collectors. Even<br />

renowned car companies have found justification to<br />

recreate some of their once historical specimen that<br />

for whatever reason did not survive time.<br />

This is only the top of the iceberg. Fortunately, the<br />

fraternity of historical car enthusiasts knows about<br />

them, which - let me put that clear - does not justify<br />

their existence.<br />

But there is an even more dangerous second<br />

movement which grows and grows and is seriously<br />

damaging the our mission, which is to preserve the

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