In Chapter 1 we saw how "Wheels Mariënwaerdt 2025" can house bespoke and even brand new launches, while in Chapter 2 we enjoyed some of the best shaped classics around.

But showing these cars was not the only thing you could do classic-car related. If you had some spare change in your wallet, you could have some fun too.

There were at least 2 places where they sold classic cars, and one where they sold used books too.

I don't have pictures of the used books place, but I did take a look around.

It was organised by car brand, and in places also by year of release, so it was nice and tidy to browse. Didn't get anything for myself though!

Then some classic cars were also on sale, and even sold (that's what "Verkocht" in this picture means). Above and below are some of the cars that were available.

Over to you: If money was no object, which one (only one!) would you have taken home? Let me know in a reply or comment below!

The Maserati was my favourite (and one of the most expensive ones around!)

Just as with the Festival of Speed mentioned in previous chapters, at Wheels Mariënwaerdt there are many things happening all the time, which means that while you are somewhere, you are missing something else.

There were two things that I sadly missed but was too busy to visit:

I have photographed some of the cars that go on the off-road course, but didn't even get a peak at the timed shootouts.

One has to pick their battles, and here I specifically chose other things.

When I lived in Argentina, the possibilities of seeing rare cars where more reduced than currently, living in Europe.

Even then, there have always been two cars closely related to Enzo Ferrari that eluded me during the almost 4 years that I've been living here.

Today we can scratch the Enzo off that list with a huge smile.

This is a very stunning car. It's low, wide, with thoughtful lines and curves.

It has a very imposing presence, like nothing I've seen before.

And it's already almost 25 years old, while beating the looks of any modern Ferrari (although that's a low bar).

Without further ado, check some of the pictures I took!

If you follow me on Bluesky, you might have seen quite a bit of sharing about this event in the past weeks.

Instead of creating a thread and adding to it, I created what I call "a quote train", where basically you see one post, and can only see the ones before, so you sort of have to check back in time until you get to the beginning.

It was fun, and allowed people to focus on one set of pictures a day, as well as having more to see if they're curious enough to click through the other ones.

There were many interesting cars there, but of course I did not share all of them.

That's what this article is for.

There was a specific stand for celebrating the 45 years since the development of Audi's Quattro all-wheel-drive system.

This means there were a lot of Audi Quattro including an S1 and street versions, as well as a TT Anniversary edition, RS2, RS4, you name it.

Beautiful and legendary lineup.

These cute little Simca's were sort of "in between" two big sections of the exhibition, but had so much attitude that I couldn't help but smile while passing and photographing them.

Which photo is your favourite?

There was not a specific Citroën stand, but there were a couple of super nice ones to attract attention to a stand I honestly don't know what it was about.

After checking the photos, I see it's some sort of club.

So it worked in terms of attracting my attention, but without the pictures to review, had no clue to what.

Beautiful examples though!

Just like the Citroën, there was a stand with Jaguars, E-Type, D-Type and more, that I don't know what it was about.

I just admired these beauties. And sorry for the lack of E-Type picture (you can still buy my E-Type inspired t-shirt here though!). I filmed it a bit but forgot to photograph.

There were some racing livery cars here and there as well.

These Mercedes-Benz 190 and Lancia Delta were my favourites.

This was one of the coolest groupings showed.

4 classic Ferrari cars (328, 355 F1 GTS, 512TR and Testarossa) with the Fiat 642 RN2 Bartoletti Ferrari Race Transporter, that actually used to be a real race transporter from the Juan Manuel Fangio era.

Incredible to see!

I saw my first Honda City + Motocompo combo in the metal.

It made me very happy.

The Renault 5 and 4 were present too, both in classic and modern suits. I tried to take some "comparison" pictures, to see how much they grew.

It seems to be pretty common to have the idea of "old vs new" in a stand, because in the whole event, there were two pairs of old/new R4 next to each other.

This one was one I did not expect to see at all! I've seen it in the Festival of Speed coverage but was pleasantly surprised to be able to snap here.

It reminds me of a smoother Lexus LFA. And with the recent presentations of the new LFA Concept and the Toyota GR GT, this sharing and comparison couldn't come at a better time.

I think it looks fantastic.

Another Dutch one-off, the Packard Excellence was commissioned to JB Classic & Bespoke in Bodegraven, the Netherlands, by a Packard enthusiast.

Packard was an American luxury brand that existed until 1956, and in this case, a Bentley Flying Spur was used as a base to be heavily modified into what you see here.

17.000 hours of work and no expense spared let the creators go wild with bespoke headlights, taillights and even rear suicide doors.

This is not of my taste, but I applaud the craftsmanship.

This wraps up Chapter 3 of the coverage. And with it, the entire "Wheels Mariënwaerdt 2025" coverage.

I had a great time, and thanks again to Charlie for the invitation.

I hope I can be back next year!

In the rare case you missed it, you can read Chapter 1 here and Chapter 2 here.

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