Old and gorgeous: classic car show in Helsinki

Every 1st Friday of every summer month the fans of oldtimers from Finland and beyond gather in the central Helsinki to boast their steel horses. Looks like this tradition has been extended to September, too, because the autumn was warm and beautiful. Though nowadays cars have become much cleaner from the point of view of emissions and this is the good news, they have sadly lost in aesthetics. So I didn't miss a chance to see some really stylish stuff on this autumn night.

In the 1950s and the 1960s, the car was not just a means of transport. It was a fetish and had to look sexy. The lack of parking space in the modern city would give them quite a hard time. "It's not a car. It's nearly a rocket", the designers seem to have said...