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Here a few snapshots from a short tourist-trip to Istanbul, my wife and me have made in the last days.
A fascinating town with uncountable many sights - but about cars it's really boring. Since the German TÜV-inspection was introduced some years ago, all older vehicles disappeared. Many vehicles were made in Turkey, but it's all the modern stuff as Renault Symbol and so on.
This Dodge was the only of this older TR-unique stuff. There are still several TR-made R12 and Tofas Sahin on the road, but of the chrome-bumpered originals I've spotted not even a handful. Nothing Anadol-ish at all.
Some Tofas Sahin were pimped in boy-racer-style, so there seems to be a fan-scene for them.
The only classic cars on the streets of Istanbul were a half-dozen of VW 1302 and 1303, due their condition clearly in the hands of enthusiasts.
Pure handmade phantasy
Later I've seen, that this BMW has besides a 2013-sticker for the Austrian motorway also the green sticker for the emission-zones in Germany (where the number is remarked on), but I was reluctant to creep around (not a too good idea in not a too good quarter of Istanbul)
A fascinating town with uncountable many sights - but about cars it's really boring. Since the German TÜV-inspection was introduced some years ago, all older vehicles disappeared. Many vehicles were made in Turkey, but it's all the modern stuff as Renault Symbol and so on.
This Dodge was the only of this older TR-unique stuff. There are still several TR-made R12 and Tofas Sahin on the road, but of the chrome-bumpered originals I've spotted not even a handful. Nothing Anadol-ish at all.
Some Tofas Sahin were pimped in boy-racer-style, so there seems to be a fan-scene for them.
The only classic cars on the streets of Istanbul were a half-dozen of VW 1302 and 1303, due their condition clearly in the hands of enthusiasts.
Pure handmade phantasy
Later I've seen, that this BMW has besides a 2013-sticker for the Austrian motorway also the green sticker for the emission-zones in Germany (where the number is remarked on), but I was reluctant to creep around (not a too good idea in not a too good quarter of Istanbul)