Tarbes. “This car made the Great War”

The horses looked great this Sunday at the Haras de Tarbes. The equines that populate this majestic site of course. But also, the mechanical frames which stole the show on the occasion of the exhibition “We show his horses”. “It is incredible,” said François Gonneau, doctor of old mechanics. We were told the end of the world and ultimately the weather is there so that the public can take advantage of the 150 vehicles, both popular and historical, sole. ” The Tarbais also embarked numerous in the wake of these racing cars, here a Bentley of 1926, there a Maseratti quatro Porte from 1967.

Or this “taco” of 1913, the sublime Morris, ancestor of the Mini, out of the English factories in 1913 and transported by road from Juillan by Jean-Louis Xiberras, member of the Golden Tress 65. “It is a historic car which has a history, tells its owner who acquired it at the exit of confinement. This car was not marketed in France. It was bought by a British family in France. 1913 which came to France in 1914. But caught up by the Great War, its owners were repatriated to England. It took this enthusiast two years old, the son of a mechanic, but a former collaborator architect and then intermittent of the show, to develop this proud centenary. “She caused me a lot of hassle because I had no data, smiles Jean-Louis Xiberras that her father had discouraged to be passionate about these old mechanics. I had to grop. But now she starts a quarter turn. I’m going to get my bread with every day …”

And Jean-Louis Xiberras did not stop at this Morris. He currently dates back to his garage a Delahaye from 1924 as well as a Clément Bayard of 1912, his dean. “I hope to be able to show them. The collections are made to be seen. Events like this one are happy. It wakes up memories in people. We are there for that.”