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Lake Tahoe Concours – reloaded!

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Miss Tessa at Lake Tahoe Concours - reloaded!

It’s 1992 – in Washington D.C., Bill Clinton starts his term as the 42. president of the USA. In Munich, the new Franz-Josef-Strauß-Airport is opening for the first flight to depart. In California, at the Lake Tahoe Concours d’Elegance, Bill Breuner is presenting his totally restored 1930 Dodge 16A Dual-Cockpit Runabout to the concours jury members – and wins “Best of Show under 23ft”. Last year in winter, Miss Tessa was added to the Gents Barn collection and thus, it was too late for participation at what is known today as the world’s most-respected Concours for classic boats. So, our Tarz Speedster “Smitty” took part! Now, August 20th, 2021, 91-year old Miss Tessa participates again in this years concours! Vote for our little Miss Tessa and let’s see, if we can win once again! Thanks for your help! Voting will be possible here!

VOTE NOW FOR „MISS TESSA“:

INFO ABOUT OUR SELDOM DODGE BOOT “MISS TESSA”:
https://laketahoeconcours.com/miss-tessa/

VOTING IS POSSIBLE DIRECTLY HERE:
https://laketahoeconcours.com/virtual-lake-tahoe-concours-delegance-wood-ballot-2021/

Our very own Tarz Speedster at the 2020 Lake Tahoe Concours d’Elegance

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Lake Tahoe Tarz Speedster Gents Barn Smitty 1953 2020Our little “Smitty”, a 1953 Tarz Speedster, built in the former GDR or rather in East-Berlin by the boat builder Fritz Tars, was chosen this year to take part in what is probably the world’s most famous Concours d’Elegance for classic boats! We are, admittedly, very proud, as this selection alone is an award and accolade in itself, but of course we now also need every single vote to receive this year’s People’s Choice Award 2020 – so take part and by September 7th at the latest, oh well, it’s best to vote for our SMITTY today! 🙂 Thank you very much in advance!

YOUR VOTE FOR “SMITTY”:

INFO ABOUT SMITTY:
https://laketahoeconcours.com/smitty/

VOTE HERE TODAY:
https://laketahoeconcours.com/virtual-excellence-peoples-choice/

Gents Barn at Boot & Fun fair as well as the Motorworld Classic in Berlin

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Today Gents Barn was at Boot & Fun as well as the classic car fair Motorworld Classics in Berlin! There was a lot to see for all enthusiasts of classic boats and classic cars – we think it’s always worth the trip to Berlin in the cold winter! Our managing director especially maintained contacts in the classic boat scene and stayed in hall 23 with the classic boats. In addition to many good conversations with friends and boat lovers, there was no shortage of talking “the woodyboater way” – a great day and we are already looking forward to next year. So we’ll see you from 18th to 22nd November 2020 – in Berlin, of course!

TÜV HANSE & our Woodie – a great combination!

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TÜV HANSE OLDTIMER CHRYSLER TOWN COUNTRYOn Sunday, the new TÜV HANSE ClassiC calendar 2020 will be presented to the public at the 13th TÜV HANSE classic car meeting in Hamburg – Gents Barn is happy to have been included in this wonderful 2020 calendar with great vintage car photographs by Carlos Kella! Many thanks to TÜV HANSE and TÜV SÜD AG as well as Sway Books for choosing our woodie. The calendar is available for order here! The Hamburgers and Hanseaten among you, we wish for today’s classic car meeting at TÜV HANSE a lot of fun and the best weather! Ahoy from the Hanseatic city of Greifswald!

Gents Barn at Techno Classica Essen

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RM Sotheby Gents BarnToday was officially the first day of the Techno Classica Essen and, of course, Gents Barn was also there, maintained the network and received the latest information on the classic car market – first forecast: The vintage car industry is doing amazingly well, all the halls were packed and customers are ready to pay a fair price for good quality. Many cars had already changed hands on the preview day as well as today, especially in the Youngtimer (1980s and up) segment. Finally, thanks to a friendly invitation from the management, we were able to attend the local RM Sotheby’s auction – again, the high quality cars quickly changed hands. We are curious how the next days will be, but it was a good start to the season. See you soon – here at Gents Barn.

Miss Persia at the Boot Düsseldorf

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Gar Wood Miss Persia Boot Düsseldorf

Right at the beginning of this year, we got some great news – Boot Düsseldorf is giving our legendary and unique Miss Persia, the only Gar Wood Speedster produced in 1936 and the former boat of the Shah of Iran, a special place at its anniversary fair, the 50th edition of this world leading trade fair for boats and water sports!

Almost exactly 83 years after its first exhibition at the 1936 Chicago Boat Show, Miss Persia is now – although not yet completely assembled, but with dozens of layers of fresh varnish – for the second time at one of the world’s largest boat fairs, what an honor.

So if you’ve ever wanted to see the resurrection of the Miss Persia up close, you can do so now – in the “classic boat” hall 5, booth B02, both our Miss Persia and our future replacement engine, the Packard 1M-245, will be featured throughout the fair. Of course, we are very happy about this great sign from the fair organizers and thank them in advance.

If you would like to get to know the proud owner and Gents Barn founder in person, you can meet him on the first day of the fair, January 19th.

See you soon – at Boot Düsseldorf, open from 19.-27. January 2019.