The auto show featuring around fifteen old timers from BiH and the region was held yesterday at the Square of Freedom in Tuzla. Organizer of the event is the Auto Moto Club.
An elderly man from Tuzla, Otto Novak, who allegedly knows everything about cars of older and newer generations, responded to inquiries of the visitors without hesitation.
“My father Adolf was a car mechanic, and he transferred the love for the craft and cars on me. Cars are my entire life, and parents told me that ‘car’ was the first word I said in my life. I drove at least 50 cars of different manufacturers, types and classes, and one of the rarest cars I drove was one Chevrolet from 1949, whose owner was the famous trader from Tuzla, Jovo Četković,” said Otto Novak.
However, the car “graft&stift” evoked the greatest interest with the lovers of old timers. In one such car, the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince and Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia were driving in Sarajevo in 1914, when they were assassinated.
“This car is actually a replica of the original car manufactured in 1910. I made it on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination. It has a handbrake and is in driving condition,” said the owner of the beautiful car, Edo Kapetanović from Tuzla.
Kapetanović was driving friends, children and women who expressed wish to drive in one such car all around the Square of Freedom.
“The car is not for sale, although I must say that no one has offered yet a heart-breaking price which would make me sell it,” Kapetanović said.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba)
