“They never go out of fashion”
When we ask him how much it costs to fill up with fuel for his beautiful American, Pierre Émile Fistié, 39 years old, mechanic at Mercedes (photo at the top of the article), in Castres, demonstrates his sense of repartee and his humor: “She only consumes pleasure.” Another way of echoing the old antiphon, “when you love, you don’t count”. And to make it clear that the 15 to 25 liters of consumption per hundred kilometers, which are the norm for such machines, in no way frighten this lover of the curves of Chevrolet and “their intangible line”.
His is a Camaro, originally registered in the state of Tennessee. A vintage 1968, acquired in 2020 with which the Saïxol does not go unnoticed as this bright yellow vehicle arouses admiration: “Recently, someone called me to thank me and tell me that seeing this Chevrolet had brightened their day. It’s clearly a car that makes you dream! This model (built at the time to compete with the Ford Mustang) immediately jumped out at me. I have enjoyed these American cars for a very long time. They are living machines, they make noise. These cars, even when they are fifty years old, they are not out of fashion. By comparison, at the time, in France, we produced R12s…” Pierre Émile remembers his “very first time” at the wheel of his American, it was in 2006, with a Plymouth Volare. A Camaro, already yellow and black, made famous thanks to the Transformers film, and a Chevrolet Chevelle will follow.
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