Rare Motorcycles made in Argentina, and other Motorbikes made here in Argentina, like the Motorcycles with motor engines that used the engine SACHS where the Zanella, Siambretta, Capri, Gilera, Legnano, Alpino, Paperino, DKW Bessone, Tehuelche, Ramonot, Rennes, Danuvia, Bersagliera and the Aller Meteor. More information email me,……… Riding a 1939 Norton 500 South America way, hope you enjoy the ride! Bob Frassinetti.
All throughout the twentieth century traveling has been the world’s most beloved leisure activity. Whether at an unspoiled beach side paradise or embracing other cultures this activity has touch us all in a variety of ways. Many of us have defined life plans under the influence of this indescribable feeling of freedom often experienced in these kind of adventures. Some have found true love. Others just grew in all sorts of ways.
The recent Motorcycle diaries film is one expression of these deep trips’ impact. The journey these young students did throughout South America is amazing. Riding a 1939 Norton 500 in not very good conditions they traveled through Argentina and Chile, where the Mighty one –how these boys had christened the bike- was now powerless.
Many young Che admirers have ridden through those roads trying to relive their hero’s experience. However they must be aware that the fact of traveling through the same passages does not turn them into the Cuban-Argentinean hero.
On the road, as Jack Kerouac majestically expressed on his homonym book, frees your spirit and mind, lets you become yourself in the most deep possible ways (its not literal, its just what I felt when reading this masterpiece as well as traveling).
The image of those intrepid young travelers is been going around my head lately. Though I’d love travel through the patagonian lands on a bike, in my mind the Norton 500 is in a much better condition than the one in the movie. May be because I’m an art dealer, and I would never let a vintage beautiful bike to be in such conditions, may be also because I love traveling the best possible way I can. Those gorgeous vintage bikes –much alike the outstanding antique cars that yearly travel through these southern Argentinean lands- belong in a majestic landscape such as this Patagonia.
With the feel of wind blowing in my face, I find myself daydreaming of riding this vintage bike through the routes that once were rode by Guevara and Granado, and many more anonymous adventurers who have loved and treasured this unspoiled paradise.
The trip shall begin in the beautiful Buenos Aires, were a few relax days will prepare me –and all those bike lovers that wish to come along in this fantastic journey- for an unforgettable experience. Then we’ll hit the road. From BA throughout the immense Pampa we’ll head south to Bariloche and the gorgeous San MartÃn de los Andes. At this point of the journey we’ll walk on the wild side as we take Route 40 –my favorite route in the whole country for it runs from south to north side by side the imponent Andes mountains- that will lead us to paradise in Earth.
On the road, on an outstanding bike, through some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world, going through a self-discovery journey…
So if you are interested in Art or Antiques, and you are travelling to Buenos Aires, or to other parts of Argentina, like Rosario, Entre Rios, Cordoba or Mendoza, please feel free to email me, I can help, from Guided Tours to Exporting Antiques and Art …….. and what about Collectibles and just to mention some like Advertising, Advertising Art, Architectural, Art Deco, Auto Parts, Badges, Banks, Beswick, Bottle, Bottle Openers, Bronze, Button, Calendars, Candy Containers, Carnival Glass, Chandeliers, Christmas, Coca Cola, Corkscrews, Elvis Presley, Ethnic Art, Ethnic Toys, Fans, Fishing, Fishing Reels, Folk Art, Francisco Adaro, Furniture, Harmonica, Lamps and lightning items, the wild 60's and 70's, Garden Furnishing, Girl Scout, Glass Art, Glass Contemporary, Golf, Halloween, Inkwells, Insulators, Ivory, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Jewellery, Judaic, Kitchen, Knife, Lamps, Lighters, Lightning Rod , Majolica, Match Holders, Medical, Motorcycles, Rare Motorcycles and other Motorbikes made here in Argentina, Music, Napkin Rings, Nautical, Netsuke’s, Nutcrackers, Paintings, Liberato Spisso, born Buenos Aires, Argentina. 14 March 1903, Portrait Artist, Viski, Jean ( Janos ) 1891 - 1961, Old Car, Paper, Paperweights, Pens, Pencils, Pencil Sharpeners, Pepsi Cola, Perfume Bottles, Pewter, Phonographs, Photography, Postcards, Posters, Prints, Radio, Railroad , Records, Steam Tractor, Scientific Instruments, Sewing, Sheet Music, Silver, Souvenirs, Sports, Stero Cards, Stereoscopes, Telephones, Television, Tools, Toys, "The Buenos Aires Toy Museum. Argentina", or a Tractor, Typewriters, Watch, Weapons, Weather Vanes, Wood Carvings, Wooden, World's Fair, to say Vito Campanella.
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Overland Travel Adventure Tour for Argentina & Chile
Topic: Rally Classic Car Tour
Overland Travel Adventure Tour for Argentina & Chile. Rally Car Tour with Bob Frassinetti.
This Classified Ad is for one "personal private driver tour guide with travel advice and + vehicle and equipment + meals on the road” and for you to have the right to reserve your seat on this overland travel adventure trip, for one unique tour starting around the first days of December of 2007, this travel adventure, that I’m organizing, a unique travel adventure trip down here in South America for only 3 other travellers apart form my self, the idea is starting out here in Buenos Aires, a cosmopolitan city full of live and exotic sights, we will be visiting unique buildings, lighthouses both in the city and on the Island of Martin Garcia some 40 miles by River …. As well as a day crossing to Colonia in neighbourhood country Uruguay, visiting the old Portuguese town of Colonia, some 300 years old ……
After a day or 2 here and around these places we will carry on travelling towards Chile, going via Rosario, Cordoba and then Mendoza, seeing the Pampas, the Andes Mountains visiting Wine Bodegas, wonderful unique sights, searching town by town for Arts and Antiques, for those especially interested in old tractors steam engines we will also be hunting them, likewise for those insulators collectors, and visiting Museum and Art Galleries on all mayor stops, this adventure is not only about “hitting the road, jack” but also looking out to a parts of the world, that are rapidly changing and it might be one of the last times do see and document it before “man and the weather” change it for ever…. See sights and sounds like maybe have been the same for hundreds of years, remote villages, high up in the mountains or across in Chile.
So we will be also crossing over to Santiago de Chile, the Pacific Ocean, Valparaiso, and then down south to the Big Island of Chiloe, this mystical and magic island, with hundreds of churches and strange wooded buildings over the sea, lighthouses and many islands to visit, and then back crossing over gain the Andes mountains, back across to Argentina, Via Esquel, Route 40, Ruta 40, seeing and travelling on trains, crossing lakes and bays, on paved and unpaved roads, hunting antique tractors, visiting lighthouses and museum, buying art and antiques and sleeping in small towns and villages some times in top notch boutique hotels other time in down and out places… Bariloche and Puerto Blest, for those by now tired out can catch a flight back to Buenos Aires, then home, or for those willing to spend Christmas and New Year in this part of wild South American and in style can carry on with me …….. Eating and tasting local foods and drinks, as well as wines … the idea is to have a total adventure in places I have already travelled to and others that I’m not familiar with. All this, for an adventure, that could well turn out to be ……… a drive of a life time.
We would be travelling in a 4 wheel drive vehicle, 4WD this is a good on and off road vehicle, with all the equipment necessary also for camping out a night or 2 on the road, when its nice to ….. so far the idea is still being worked on, so its subject to some change, all I wanted to check out with this auction is if there are any possible candidates who would be willing to accompany me…… at the same time we would be documenting the trip for deferent purposes… I have worked out some kind of cost for the trip, its based on a daily rate per person, this doesn’t include any extra expenses but only the use of the vehicle and me driving it (included all running costs of the vehicle, me, there the 24 hours helping, couching and providing information on the sights we will see ) and insurance, it would be US $190 per person per day of adventure, minimum days 21, calculated on a base of 3 passengers and if all seats are occupied and sold here at auction, today or in future run up auctions. Great trip for a family of 3, friends, or adventurers who never got the chance to be one…… and why not just for those lovers of art and antiques who want to experience pure fun a dn the sport of hunting down items, village by village town by town ….. All other expenses; from trip down, to Buenos Aires and back home, from food lodging here and on the road and all personal expenses all the way to medical costs if any, all , and each expense for each person, are apart, are to be paid by each of the individuals doing the trip, and you can do this threw your local travel agent or any way you feel fit in doing it. There are some risks involved so its best only to do trip if you are in good health and to let me know of anything before hand.
Some information on myself, Lonely Planet has me listed as a “friendly and bohemian art dealer guide” on page 49 of its latest edition of Lonely Planet Guide for the city of Buenos Aires. This guide was written by Sandra Bao, and is just out, by the way, a great in view to our City. I'm also known on Internet online magazines and forums where I publish my insiders’ articles and inputs for travellers & dealers on art to antiques dealers, just Google my name! Or Yahoo! I’m a qualified eBay seller with great feedback! And I have been on line on eBay since 1998. That goes back a long way for Internet users.
I also sell Books on Route 40, Argentina. You can alos buy books and Route Guides like this one The Magic of Route 40 by Federico B. Kirbus.