Yeah yeah… I know, it’s been a while. MIA for a month. Total silence. Blame the weather! It’s so erratic! Today it can be three degrees outside.. and the next day seventeen degrees. Isn’t it ridiculous? I mean, what is wrong?? Owhhkay.. I should really stop belaboring on this pointless issue. But I just can’t help it. It’s making me sick. OK fine.
Last weekend I was at Stuttgart. Visited Mercedes Museum. It was quite cool. All the old cars and stuff.. you know..the vintage cars. Owh owh..Lewis Hamilton was there! But too bad I’m not a fan of that dude(although he won this year’s championship by just one point to Massa, and I’m not trying to lampoon Hamilton. No saw losers around.). Kimi rules! Haha.. it was quite coincidental. Hamilton’s teammate was there, and David Coulthard was there too doing F1 car demonstrations. And just so you know, entrance was free..yay! But headphone audio guides were not distributed..bleahh. Bah..who cares..it’s still free! Let’s save Euros!
So, we walked all around the museum, exploring each and every corner possible, saw old stuff, took some pictures, and watched some drifting! There was some demonstration by Mercedes on some Mercedes drifting cars. It was quite cool. The sound and yeah, the burnt tyre smell from all the drifting but it was cool. Those engines roared so loud that I thought I was going to get my ear drums burst..goodness. This really reminds me of this year’s F1 race at Sepang. Hmmm.. miss those days..reminiscing..
We kind of spent the whole day there Looking at exhibits, then adjourned for Schnitzel somewhere one hour away from Stuttgart. It was huge. Seriously huge. Luckily I finished my portion although a couple of my friends did not and had to ‘bungkus’. Lol. This is the first German restaurant which I have gone to that is cool with taking away unfinished food on the table. Yes..Uncommon sight.
Oh yeah oh yeah! Missed out one thing. Before the Schnitzel, we went to a TV tower. Apparently it is the first concrete TV tour in the world. I don’t know. Not too sure about how true it is. Too bad we did not go up to the tower because it was already kinda late , so we just hanged around the tower, starring up at it, blankly. Haha.
So below are some pictures and two short clips I captured at the museum (which took me so long to upload into the blog..) !!! Nice place to visit. =D
Main train station in Stuttgart.
Yeah, train station.
Buildings within museum vicinity.
Mercedes museum.
I like this pic!
Interior of museum.
Nice lift..haha. It has only one level selection which is the highest level (simply because the museum tour starts from the top floor).
One of the earliest motors.
Early inventions of motoring industry.
Hmm.. antiques.
Vintage cars.
More vintage exhibits.
GOLDEN CAR! Not really, it's the lighting.
Limousine.
Whooh..Pope's car.
Check out the Pope's cool seat! This car was specially made in order to be seen by the people as well as for protection.
Vintage exhibits.
Idea of the airbag system mooted a long time ago (decades).
Cool car/ truck. I don't know..haha.
=)
Arnold Schwarzeneggers' car during his tenure as Governor of California till he changed his vehicle.
A little description of his car.
Blades..
Yeah..it was the future car of that time..
Cars in the 70s
Sports cars!
Notice the trucks behind??
This is a hybrid engine for Merc S Class.
A little clip on the hybrid engine. Quite interesting tho. The illumination is cool.
Concept car.
Solar powered car.
This car has no steering wheel. It is maneuvered by a joy stick.
Engine of an F1 car.
Yeah, the crowd watching Hamiltons' demonstrations.
Heheh..
Yeah, I loaned them my car. I'm generous..haha!
More F1 cars.
Meant for drifting??
Some smoke..that was all I could see.
TV tower.
Schnitzel fest..man..good that I was famished.
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