They never met, yet they participate benevolently to the construction of this database. Their passion : automotive history and technology | |
![]() van Damme Stéphane (France) since 09-2000 |
42 years old, lives in the Alpes-Maritimes where he gives his time to Histomobile. Fascinated by cars since he was 12 years old, he wished to share his passion that grew again back in 1999 when he was able to entirely dedicate himself to Histomobile. |
![]() Benoît Flandre (Belgique) since 08-2001 |
42 years old, he lives in province of Hainaut in Belgium where he works at the Walloon agency for the integration of disabled persons. Fascinated by cars, he has several book on the topic and also collects miniatures at 1/43th. Left : when he was 2 years old in his "Ferrari'. |
![]() Raul Valkila (Finlande) since 04-2002 |
26 years old, lives in Southern part of Finland, about 20km from Helsinki. Interest of cars since he was born. Collects everything car related from brochures to car play cards. Now he helps Histomobile in every way he can. |
![]() François Dovat (Suisse) since 10-2002 His page |
63 years old, lives in Lausanne in switzerland. He and his father have gathered documentation about internal combustion engines and automotive technology for more than half a century. Graduate enologist but totally incompetent, he is by contrast a self-taught but competent automotive technician. He was a successful racing driver with his Shelby GT 350-R and has also been a long distance truck driver. He publishes articles in the specialized press and he traveled several times around the planet. He is happy to contribute to the redaction of the Technical files of Histomobile. |
![]() Mario Freire De Menezes (France) since 11-2002 |
77 years old, lives in Isère in France. Mario, born in Lisboa in Portugal, chemist and writer, took always interest to cars and made collection of the magnificent new model catalogs after the WW2. He made rallies when he was 18. Allways in a good mood, Mario lends his linguistic expertise to histomobile for the Portuguese version. |
![]() Jean-Marc Kobi (France) since 01-2004 |
47 years old, lives in Cherbourg in France. Jean-Marc travaille dans le retraitement nucléaire depuis 1987, mais a toujours été passionné de voitures (il récupérait les publicités dans les" Reader Digest" à l'age de cinq ans) Ayant un faible pour les voitures françaises, il a eu une Simca rallye 2 , deux 205 gti , mais aussi Renault 21 td, Peugeot 309 Srd, Rover 825d (1 étrangère), Renault Espace de 1988, remplacée par une 807 accompagnée d'une Peugeot 206 1.6 16v XS. |
![]() Adrien Cahuzac (France) depuis 09-2004 his texts |
30 years old, lives in Paris in France. Adrien Cahuzac is engineer in agronomy and became journalist at the "AGRA Presse" agency in Paris. Car is his passion since his childhood, he works frequently for magazines specialized like "Rétroviseur" or "Rétromania". He takes part in histomobile for some models and make's history. |
| How to join the team ? | You send every week information or missing pictures during 4 months. After admission, following the quality and the regularity of these information, you have to send some information monthly. |
Frédéric Guihal who send us French texts.
Hatem Ben Ayed (Automotive Galaxy) who send us some road tests.
Marc Louvigne who send me pictures since the beginning.
Eric Hierro (auto-collection) who gave me a fruitful cooperation.
Julien (anciennes.net) who gave me a fruitful cooperation.
Mario who translate Histomobile in Portuguese.
Thomas Avila who send me many informations previously missing on Histomobile.
Zzonyx who send me many advices about English pages and some Italian translations.
Remi cerf who send us some technical data about 2002 models.
Jurkka Pontys living in south-western Finland, who send us a Finnish translation of Histomobile.