After a very late night (morning) out in Buenos Aires, I caught a bus to Recoleta, where the living coexist with the dead, and where on this Sunday antique cars competed in a classic race from Buenos Aires to Tigre.
The Great Prize Recoleta - Tigre is unique in South America for it´s singularity and the good state of preservation of the participating vehicles. the vehicles will take on Av. Figueroa Alcorta, Tagle, Av. Del Libertador all the way through Vicente López, San Isidro (where the drivers will be able to make a pit stop) and San Fernando, taking Cazón and Paseo Victorica until arriving at around 11:30 am to Museo de Arte de Tigre. The pilots and their companions will be wearing the typical costumes of the time (early XXth century), making this a fun and picturesque event for adults and children along the route.
The oldest car in the race, with 112 years, is a steam-propelled Rochester Splindleseat 1901 from USA. Among the most antique ones – manufactured before 1910-, an Internacional Harvester 1903, an Orient Runabout 1904, a Cadillac Doble Phaeton 1904, a Bouget 1906, a Renault AK 90 1906, a Renault 1906, a Ford T 1908, a Mercedes 35 PS Cardanwagen 1908, a Metz Plancar 1908, a Panhard Levassor 1909, a Benz 1909, an Imperia Spider 1909, a Case Racer 1910, and a Scat Corsa 1910. Besides, one of the only still existing units of the Anasagasti, the first cars mass-produced in Argentina. Among the motorcycles, the most antiques are a Goricke 1904 and a Shaw from 1910.
The Great Prize Recoleta - Tigre is unique in South America for it´s singularity and the good state of preservation of the participating vehicles.
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