Jürgen Büchel: the sad story (1)

 

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This is car number 1M20149, and she was a real beauty.   Sold as a new car in March 1978 to the Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands. Left hand drive, of course, this was one of the handful of DS420 cars ever sold new in The Netherlands. In 1990 it came to Germany, and was bought by Mr. Büchel to serve as a wedding hire car.

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But on this very sad day in June 1990, things went terribly wrong.
The wedding couple was on board, and loads of relatives and friends (with cameras) drove behind when an explosion occurred in the car's battery.

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