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A street stop
The pick-up is where the cars are, not where the truck would prefer to be.
Collected at home
The truck comes up the driveway: the car never reaches the public road.
On the steps
Delivered outside the museum, in time for opening.
Pushed into place
The last twenty metres are done by hand, engine off, on the exhibition floor.
Stacked
The upper deck is loaded first and comes out last. The order is the plan.
Four aboard
One truck for a whole collection means one route, one driver, one set of keys.
Road and track
One is registered, one is not. They travel the same way and for the same reason.
Two pre-war cars
A saloon and a racer unloaded together in the park.
Three transporters
An exhibition is built from several trucks, unloaded in floor-plan order.
Two loads, one exhibition
An exhibition is not one delivery. It is a schedule, held to the half-hour.
Brussels street
A short rigid goes where an articulated truck cannot.
Waiting to load
Cars are staged in the order they go up the ramps. Nothing is decided at the ramp.
Under the deck
Centimetres above the roofs. The deck is set once the cars are in, never before.
Lined up
White, yellow, race livery. The three that came by road, in front of the ones that came by truck.
In the paddock
The truck stays on site all weekend: the car goes back in between sessions.
Loading at night
Events finish late; the return trip is not postponed to the morning.
Arrived at the circuit
Side doors open, straps still on: nothing moves before the ramps are down.
The whole line
A day like this ends with a loading plan, not a queue.
Track car, no windscreen
No roof, no glass, no doors. Everything the weather could reach is a reason to travel enclosed.
End of the day
Hot brakes, warm tyres, tired drivers. Loading is the part that cannot be rushed.
Loaded under the arch
End of the exhibition: the cars leave the way they came.
Southern Europe
From one point in Europe to another: the olive groves are part of the route.
Refuelling at day's end
Stops are chosen: lit forecourt, truck in view, car never left alone.
The driver stays the same
Same crew from loading to delivery. Nothing is handed over on the way.
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