INTERVIEW
Vintage cars, a smart investment? Their rating has exploded over the past five years, but for Jean-Pierre Foucault, it's something else that plays out in his passion for them: on Europe 1, Tuesday morning, the famous host of TF1 tells this "emotional report" which links it to the twelve "old" he has today.
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"I do not buy a collector car saying to myself that I will resell it in ten years' time having tumbled three times," said the emblematic presenter of the Miss France competition. "I collect popular and French cars, because it was in these cars that I walked when I was a kid. For me, it's a return to cheap childhood and adolescence. I am very happy to to be able to offer me this little luxury by being in the cars my father drove when I was a kid. "
"Capital extremely strong sympathy"
No investment for the purpose of a more interesting resale in a few years, therefore, and even a reverse logic in the former presenter of Who wants to earn millions? : "These cars do not have a very high market value, but a very high emotional value," says Jean-Pierre Foucault at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard. "What is interesting with these popular cars is the number of people who make you make-up calls or who honk their horns. It brings an extremely strong sympathy capital."
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And this return to his young years, Jean-Pierre Foucault, 72, finds it thanks to… smell: "The olfactory memory is very important. My father had a Delahaye bodied by Chapron, a beautiful car", says T -he. "My mother sold it on the death of my father. It is somewhere near Limoges. And when I go to Limoges, I go to see this gentleman, I get into the car and the smell brings me back to my earliest childhood. "