Fiera Auto e Moto d'Epoca Padova 2021, boom of visitors

Great general enthusiasm was aroused by the 2021 Padua Vintage Car and Motorcycle Show. The President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, and the highest local authorities were present at the inauguration.
This was not just a reaction to the long absence of important events due to the pandemic, but a demonstration of genuine interest on the part of the public, and connoisseurs, in vintage vehicles. The fascination of historic cars is unquestionable: their class, formal beauty and typicality in contrast to standardised industrial seriality have attracted large numbers of visitors to admire their "geometric and mechanical splendour", as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote in the early years of the Futurist twentieth century. To all intents and purposes, vintage cars designed by the great Italian coachbuilders and designers are masterpieces of art, testimony to the ingenuity of the designers and the know-how of those who made them materially. Some of these cars are rare or very rare and, as such, reach very high international prices. Every 'status' has its 'symbol' and today it seems that the classic car is one, providing a comfortable journey in safety, 'visibility' and distinction, because it is something absolutely unique.