After some time we were already at the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum. It's one of the largest museums of its kind in the world, its collection is unique. For example, it's the only one that has both supersonic passenger airliners — the Concorde and the Tu-144.
And you can see that just driving up to the museum.
As soon as you get inside, you are greeted by this cute little Zaporozhets, which says Amphicar on its license plate.
Don't underestimate Zaporozhetses! This turned out to be the only mass-produced amphibious car in the world.
While buying a ticket, this kind of flying stool hangs over your head, just so life doesn't seem like a bed of roses.
But once you get inside, beauties await us right away. By the way, there are several halls in the museum, and you can only go through the turnstile into each one twice, after that the ticket is invalid.
These are the famous Indian motorcycles. Harley-Davidson is mainstream pop, this is the real cult.
No matter how you look at it, there's a great romance to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now everything is slick and polished from a marketing point of view, but back then people created what their sense of beauty dictated to them.
The color is beautiful. But it's foolish to use it now — it has to be paired with exactly this kind of majestic car, not with modern eggs on wheels.
The most expensive car in the museum's collection, in its day it cost 130 thousand marks. Now it's worth several million dollars, maybe even more. Yes, it's a Bugatti, a brand that even today remains the pinnacle of show-offs, technology, and design.
And the creators of the great game Fallout were clearly inspired by this car.
Compare.
The pipes on the sides are just fantastic.
An American-French marvel, the winner of many competitions.
Nothing to even say.
One of the biggest mass-produced bulldozers in the world, or maybe even the biggest.
Beep-beep!
If you drive a car like this, your complexes just dissolve on their own.
Or even better, on a steam locomotive like this.
Ferrari.
Jaguar.
Maybach.
The main thing in a bicycle is minimum maintenance. In this one, for instance, you don't have to pump up the tires.
A three-wheeled self-propelled carriage. Extremely progressive for its time — cheap and fast. What killed it, as you might guess, was safety.
Mercedes.
A sweet bike.
Not a bad one either.
There were also plenty of tanks, soldiers, and other stuff, but I didn't photograph them, I don't remember why. Well, except I did capture the iconic "Kukuruznik".
Overall, the museum is fantastic. I wandered around it for about 5 hours, saw everything, though I got tired of walking. We also watched a documentary about cosmonauts in IMAX (a 3D theater) there, which was not bad either.