SARAJEVO, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The 17th international meeting of old-timer cars that have marked the past century opened on Saturday in Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH's) capital Sarajevo.
The event brought together owners of old cars from Hungary, Germany, Austria, North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, organizer of the event and president of "Oldtimer" club Nedim Husic told Xinhua.
There are a total of 50 cars presented, and the oldest car is Ford produced back in 1917.
The special attention of visitors was taken by a replica of the car which was used by Archduke Franz Ferdinand, a member of the imperial Habsburg dynasty in 1896, who was killed on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo and whose death triggered the First World War.
Edo Kapetanovic, maker of the replica told Xinhua that the replica was finished in 2014, on the 100th anniversary of Ferdinand's assassination. It took exactly 100 days to make the car.
He explained that he traveled worldwide to find parts for the car, and the majority of them he made by himself, and that car is made for driving on any kind of terrain.
Small blue car of "Fico" brand used by police in former Yugoslavia also attracted the attention of visitors and brought memories of nostalgia and of 1970s.
Owner of the car, Radovan Sibanic, said that Fico has a special soul and that there are more and more people who are emotionally connected to Yugoslavia.
"When I was around 20 years old, I drove to Sarajevo with my Fico car, and several decades later, here I am again," Sibanic concluded.
