{"id":98343,"date":"2022-05-18T07:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=98343"},"modified":"2023-03-05T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T10:41:02","slug":"living-with-horses-and-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/living-with-horses-and-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with horses and bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I visited Herbert Engel, a 77-year-old young gentleman who calls my home in Andernach-Namedy, to learn more about his automotive passion and horsepower-filled life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herbert Engel lives on a beautiful estate near Namedy Castle, which was used as a castle forge in the Middle Ages. Accordingly, the interior of his estate is still reminiscent of the time of the knights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbert lives with horses and bulls that stay in the stables, next to his main house. And when I write stables, of course I mean garages and when I write horses and bulls, of course we are talking about fiery Italians. We are not the Wendy. The only real animal that lives with Herbert is Lina Lard, an old dachshund named after Enzo Ferraris’ mistress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herbert Engel has dedicated his life to the automobile.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since 1977 he has been a luxury car dealer in the segment of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and Bentleys, Aston Martins and SLs. His passion and love for automobiles are reflected in really every corner of his house: enamel signs on the doors, posters and stickers in the bathroom, trophies in the living room and countless plaques, model cars on the dining table.  There is probably no car he has not owned. The model and manufacturer list of vehicles, all of which were in his possession, is long and top-class<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m talking about Bentley Azures, several Ferrari 365, several Daytona, various Mondial, Testarossa, fancy Mercedes 300 SLR, every model from the house of Porsche, almost every Aston Martin model that was ever produced and of course the complete Lambo-row, Rolls Royce and Cadillacs, Maserati, as well as an extremely rare Rhapsody (which was built only once in the world) and everything else has rank and name, in the list of cars that he has already owned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He used to sell an average of 30 such cars a month and also bought back just as many. Nowadays, there are far fewer cars. His customer base stretched all over the world. The Middle East shopped with him just as often as the English aristocracy, or the Italian collector families, and no, by families I don’t mean THE families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of family. His close friendship with the Schumacher family can be seen in the countless pictures in his “study,” which could also serve as the backdrop for a Hitchcock film. Michael and also Ralf visited Herbert very often and he visited them just as often at their races. Everywhere you read little funny greetings from the Schumis and other greats of the motorsport world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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