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Enclosed transporter in front of the Nürburgring entrance

At the Nürburgring

Some deliveries are made at the foot of a circuit, not outside a garage.

Silver Ferrari Daytona SP3 beside the enclosed transporter, ramps down

Collected from the driveway

The truck comes to the house. The car does not roll on its own wheels.

Lamborghini Revuelto with scissor doors open beside the transporter

Scissor doors up

Open to let the driver out, not for the photograph.

Car transporter in Autoworld livery at the museum entrance

At the museum

The Brussels motor museum's own transporter, at the Cinquantenaire entrance.

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Rear of a McLaren Senna centred inside the enclosed transporter

Centred on the deck

A hand's width each side of that rear wing, and the straps still to come.

Blue Ford GT with white stripes on the deck of an enclosed transporter

Ford GT

Low nose, long overhang: it goes up the ramps at walking pace, on the flattest angle.

Blue Ford GT loaded nose first inside a closed box transporter

Nose first

Loaded facing forward, so it leaves the way it came in: driven, not pushed.

Ford GT at the foot of the ramps of an enclosed transporter at dusk

Last load of the day

The car is expected in Switzerland. The light goes before the work does.

Yellow Renault Sport Spider beside a car transporter

Sport Spider

A roadster with no windscreen, carried enclosed for exactly that reason.

Multi-deck transporter loaded with classic Mercedes

Mercedes collection

Several cars from one owner moved in a single load.

Open double-deck car carrier fully loaded with classic saloons and coupés

A collection on the move

When every car on board is a runner, one open carrier replaces four trips.

Formula One car pushed by hand along a cobbled Brussels street

Pushed to the stand

No starter, no reverse, tramlines underfoot. Four people and a walking pace.

Liveried racing Mercedes saloon inside a covered van with a yellow floor

In the box

A touring car that raced for a living, carried the way it is worth today.

Liveried Mercedes touring car lifted by a crane truck between city buildings

Lifted into place

The stand sits where no ramp reaches. The group's recovery trucks bring the arm.

Car transporter loaded with Ferraris on a dual carriageway

In transit

From one point in Europe to another, with no transfer along the way.

Mercedes SLR McLaren roadster displayed on a plinth beside the beach

Delivered to the sand

Some cars are not delivered to a garage but to a stand, on time and unmarked.

Yellow Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series in an enclosed transporter, Monaco behind

Down to Monaco

An AMG GT Black Series arrived by road, under cover from the first mile to the last.

Racing Mercedes set down on the street beside a crane truck, crew around it

Back on its wheels

Slings off, straps coiled. The whole lift takes longer to prepare than to perform.

Prewar Mercedes Silver Arrow grand prix car being unloaded in Brussels

The Silver Arrow

Bare aluminium, no paint to hide a mark. Everything is done with two hands on the tyres.

Crew in high-visibility jackets pushing a prewar grand prix Mercedes on cobbles

Six pairs of hands

A grand prix car of this age is not driven between two points. It is walked.

White Citroën DS loaded into an enclosed transporter outside a barn

Citroën DS

Out of a barn, loaded without starting: a car that will not run still travels.

Rear of a silver Ferrari Daytona SP3 lined up with the transporter ramps

Lined up with the ramps

One person aligns the car, another watches the clearance. Nobody rushes.

Grey pre-war drophead coupé in a Brussels street

Pre-war drophead

Spare wheel on the flank, whitewall tyres: nothing sticks out of the cabin.

Prewar silver grand prix car crossing a Brussels street between modern traffic

Across the tramlines

Fifty metres of public road between the truck and the door. They are the longest of the job.

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