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MAINTAINING a car could cost as greatly as an education in Europe, especially if you are very OC, says Tetta Agustin

In Europe, she drives a 1956 Mercedes Gullwing or a 1960 Bentley Continental Flying Spur across thousands of kilometers on roundabout roads, through bad weather and cracked pavements. Bar its not just to enjoy the glorious panorama of the continent.

WITH Christian Baverey in the 1934 Packard Roadster

I like these rallies (rally racing) as you realize nice cars and nice countries and meet nice people, believed model-turned-businesswoman Teresita Tetta Agustin. She has been acquiring vintage cars and joining rallies for classic cars the past 16 years.

The drivers are internationalJapanese, English, French and Belgianwho have the same passion as yours, she added. Its like being with collectors of paintings who share the interest.

TETTA with the Bugatti

The France-based Agustin has scored a couple of trophies for owning the best-looking cars. Her Ferrari 50 GT Lusso won the Mini Miduit for the Best Car at the Zoute Grand Prix in Belgium in 2004. The 1934 Packard Roadster, purchased from three-time Olympic skating champion and Hollywood star Sonja Henie, won in the 2012 Concours dElegance at Valescure in St. Rafael, south of France.

The concours is held taking into account a racing battle in which the car is adjudged for its perfect restoration and growth.

The prize? Champagne with the trophy, Agustin believed with a laugh. The car becomes other expensive if you covet to persuade somebody to buy it. Nearly everyone winners dont covet to part with their cars.

TETTA with the Mercedes Gullwing

European trait

Agustin and her French companion, Christian Baverey, have just spent five months in the Philippines to escape the iciness. She welcomed us in her home in Greenhills wearing a white hanky linen dress, her wrists dripping with charm jewels.

Performance photographs of her 1964 Mustang Cabriolet, 1956 Mercedes Gullwing, and herself practicing on the energetic trail, she believed, I dont covet to appearance as if Im conceited.

TETTA Agustin holding the trophy for their winning Ferrari 250 GT Lusso with daughter Tosca

She was not coy regarding her epoch. Im pushing 64. Im an adult now, believed the husky-voiced ex-model.

Greatly has been written regarding Agustins eight-year modeling career for the houses of Givenchy and Saint Laurent in Paris which ended in 1982.

Over the years, she has been involved in business, organization a remittance company for Filipinos in London, and a travel society. In between, she lived the life of a jetsetter, hobnobbing with the rich and renowned, including being the consort of former French President Valry Giscard dEstaing.

Bar no matter how greatly the press prodded her regarding her glamorous life and connections, Agustin always demurred.

TETTA with the 1955 AC Bristol

Its complicated, she would about, adding that her discretion was an acquired European trait.

In the early 80s, she married an Englishmanfor convenience, she admittedto become a British passport. Their marriage lasted eight years, as she was always itinerant.

Jetset orbit

THIS car is classified as show quality for its original restoration and minimal wear

She met Baverey, who is 12 years her senior, in the jetset orbit. His family was into cuisine manufacturing beforehand it was acquired by Group Danone and subsequently Nestl. He plus owned a land management company which he sold off.

Hes a retiree who loves to travel.

With 50 years of experience with classic cars, Baverey was president of vintage car associations, surrounded by them the prestigious Bugatti Union. He bought his first car, a Ferrari, at epoch 25.

He once kept 44 cars in the family warehouses in Belgium and in the South of France. When he and Agustin decided to spend other time in the Philippines, partially of the cars were sold.

WITH the 1964 Mustang Cabriolet

Surrounded by the remaining prized possessions are prewar cars such as the 1929 Delaheye form 175. Of their younger cars are a 1955 AC Bristol and a 1960 Lancia Flamenia Cabriolet.

Baverey is plus the proud possessor of a 1929 Royce Schneider which has traveled only 18,000 kilometers. When he joined a rally from Lyon to Marseille, he traveled at 80 km in one daylight.

I plus have a 1929 Hispano-Suiza. Its for collectors of antiques like myself who identify with this form of car. Bar the new generation, they covet the Mustang or cars made taking into account 1960, as they are easier to drive, believed Baverey.

Particular people acquire aged cars as a status symbol instead of appreciating the vehicles heritage, he added.

In Europe, classic cars are measured investments, their attach importance to accruing from their provenance. People pull together vintage cars as they would paintings.

They tin cost 100,000 euros and ahead to 2 million euros, depending on their story and rarity. Collectors cars were manufactured in limited editions, not mass produced, believed Agustin.

When you pay money for a Mustang, you tin persuade somebody to buy at a profit with no tax. In France, if you pay money for a villa, you compensate at least 50-percent tax, believed Baverey.

Expensive hobby

Remodeling a vintage car could easily fetch as greatly as P12 million, believed Agustin. As with owning a modern luxury car, maintenance of historic cars is expensive, especially when it comes to replacing a spare part. If the motor of a vintage Mercedes Gullwing breaks down, for order, the repair would cost 20,000 euros.

Maintaining a car could cost as greatly as an education in Europe, especially if you are very OC, believed Agustin.

To find out how these vintage cars ought to be driven, collectors join specialized rallies.

Classic car rallies such as Les Rallyes de lImprial are a mix of holiday-making, historic car exhibit, adventure, competition and celebrations, believed Agustin.

Apiece rally bidding have a place in your feeling. You drive through critical places like where Magellan was born. Theres a lot of jokes, laughter, story and spontaneity, she added.

The Bavereys have joined Les Rallyes de lImprial in China, Portugal, South Africa and India. They plus enjoy Les Bastides in Perigord, France.

Rallies pick collectors of prewar and postwar cars who share the conviction that its even develop to drive their collectibles rather than just admire them. Held every give and autumn, the races more often than not spill from two to four days.

The events aim to relive the town-to-town races of the early 20th century and give drivers the thrill of authentic vintage energetic at the same time as keeping to a standard speed over a set distance. It is plus a test of teamwork between the driver and the navigator.

Joining these fashionable rallies is not low-cost. The cost is from 5,000 to 10,000 euros, which covers the driver, navigator and car. When Baverey and Agustin joined the Les Rallyes de lImprial in India in 2013, the entrance fee cost was over 40,000 euros as the car had to be shipped from Europe. The participants shoulder their airfare and gas, and sometimes they prefer to bring their mechanic.

Agustins entrance was a 1970 Mercedes 280 SL, a fairly young vehicle compared to other luxury cars, nearly everyone of which were built beforehand World Rivalry II. Bar Baverey maintained that their Mercedes was just right for the race since particular of the roads were pockmarked.

Nonetheless, the splendor of Udaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan made ahead for the tough roads and the lorry.

The car rally is governed by a time-speed-distance system. Subsequent a route order, the driver drives a certain route within a specific time, on a specific average speed. The route is split into stages, with checkpoints at the start and completion.

Meanwhile, a navigator guides the driver through the option and keeps hoof marks of the programmed arrival time.

Agustin explained that the driver is penalized for every second he or she arrives early or late at the final checkpoint. The goal is to be on time.

The next daylight, the drivers move to another location.

Characteristic daylight

A characteristic daylight at the rally begins with breakfast in a fabulous inn. Cars are flagged off at one-minute intervals to start on the morning leg, covering regarding 240 km. The lunch break is in a charming inn or restaurant to give the cars a rest.

Taking into account they freshen ahead, the drivers return to the road for the days final leg. At sunset, the drivers repair for cocktails and chitchat beforehand dinner in a Michelin-star restaurant.

It may well seem fun, bar, Baverey believed, rallies tin be challenging especially on unfamiliar roads. In attendance are hazards such as encounters with animals, the police or local drivers.

It tin become scary when the car breaks down, believed Agustin. Weve seen friends who died in accidents. They lost control or they drove too brief and didnt check their cars thoroughly.