Shed with vintage cars of Kees of the Gravel in the shaft

Posted on 18-11-2013 at 20:11 by maru – 23 Comments”

Kees van de Grint, the former Bridgestone tyre specialist in Formula 1 and friend of Michael Schumacher, looked at reports on how his collection in a smoke went up.

This morning, pulled the fire department in Deil to a burning shed to put out. The notification came too late and the content – six vintage cars, old motorcycles, Landia karts and Formula 1-documentation – was completely in the ashes. The owner Of the Gravel remains amazingly calm under, but the grief is to read his face. “I have nothing more” he said to a concerned caller. In the warehouse were rare cars, a number of which only one or two in the world exist.

For any vintage car to exactly is not known, but there is a big chance that this is going to be a Formula 1 Matra MS120, Formula 3 Matra MS5, Matra Djet in racetrim, Matra M530, Rene Bonnet Aerojet, and the first Morgan of the Gravel, a Plus 4.

It was also the warehouse is the final resting place of a number of old mopeds (Royal Nords), Ladia karts and Formula 1 documentation. The cause of the fire is not known. The Gravel was in his office working when the alarm went off, but unfortunately it was already too late for his beloved vehicles.

Omroep Gelderland was there. View the images there. (Photo: Marcel van der very long run)