#94 – Dirk de Groen. BMW 507 Coppa d’Oro winner.

Um, let's talk about your personal story.

You actually drove a lot in a BMW, on the backseat, because your father was a BMW driver, right?

That's correct.

My father was a BMW driver, and I spent a lot of time in the backseat, and also in the front seat.

At the time, you know-

[laughs]

... we were three siblings and it was not a problem, you know, two of them, three of them sitting in front next to Dad while he was driving his car.

And, uh, and, and yes-

Which we can highly not recommend to do by now, because-

No, no, no, no

... for safety, don't do it

... time, times have cha- times have changed.

Times have changed.

Times have changed.

That what you hear.

Even, even the way he was driving, he, his, his right foot-

[laughs]

... had only one position, and it was all the way down.

And-

[laughs]

... at, at, at the time, at the time, there were no speed limits.

His first BMW was a 2000 Neue Klass-

Mm-hmm

... that he purchased in 1970, after several Fiats, the Fiat 2300.

So when they stopped making that model, he switched, he made the switch to BMW.