World Animal Day 2017

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Today is World Animal Day, so give your cat or dog, fish or gecko a little pat on the back from us.

The best story we can think of combining animals and classic cars is that of the Alfa- and Maserati-dealer local to us when we were young. We spent half our youth there, washing cars and ‘helping’ with little jobs. This man had a garage full of cars and many more parts plus a little scrap yard behind and a little showroom at the front  where several beautiful cars were squeezed in somehow. One of them was an SZ ‘Coda Tronca’ in gorgeous light yellow, believed to be a prototype (was this it? Anyone knows where it could be now?). The car, at one stage, needed a new interior, and so the man had it reupholstered in leather. But, not liking the look of the brand new leather, he decided to have his two dogs stay most of the day in it. They wore out the new leather within a couple of weeks, making it look a lot better. As a youngster I found nothing strange of that, but I do remember the faces of people coming in the showroom!

Over to the 911 Targa seen here. The picture was supposedly taken in 1968 for Paris Match magazine, but we could do with some more information. Feel free to add your animal-related classic car story here. And enjoy World Animal Day 2017.

(Words Jeroen Booij, picture Paris Match magazine)

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