{"id":34079,"date":"2020-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/guy-berrymen-and-his-porsches\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T08:01:00","slug":"guy-berrymen-and-his-porsches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/guy-berrymen-and-his-porsches\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Berrymen and his Porsches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Due to various musical successes in meanwhile more than 25 years, the British pop-rock band Coldplay is well known worldwide, which made it possible to sell almost 80 million copies of their records. Guy Berrymen plays the bass and met his band mates Chris Martin, Johnny Buckland and Will Champion while they were studying together at University College London. Besides working for charities together, all four band members also find time for their own hobbies. For Guy Berrymen these are sports cars and classic cars, which he collects, trades and even restores himself. His love for such cars grew in the 80s when he grew up in Scotland and regularly had the opportunity to view his father’s disused Triumph TR3A in their crowded garage. As a child, he regularly swung behind the steering wheel and thus awakened his interest in classical forms and technology, which eventually led to a degree in mechanical engineering. However, he never completed this due to the incipient success of Coldplay.

“My interest in cars fundamentally lies with the engineering and concepts behind them. All of the cars in my collection have something significant beneath the surface. I\u2019m a great believer in the idea of form following function, and it\u2019s something that works for me across a range of different fields. Whether its industrial design, clothing or cars, if you follow that mantra you always end up with real purity. I think there was a design language in the 1950s and 60s that had a very beautiful, sculptural quality to it as a result of things being drawn by hand. Back in the 60s I think there was a real flamboyance, spirit and energy in automotive design that resulted in these very pure forms,” says Berrymen, now 42, about the background to his private car collection. In addition to the cars in running order, Berrymen’s own workshop has various projects in different stages of restoration, with Berrymen showing an extreme love of detail.<\/p>\n\n\n

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