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  • Vietnam,  Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War. Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism. Sometimes, these spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers. Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War. Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism. Sometimes, these spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers...Tour guide showing the narrow entrance to the vietcong/vietmin tunnels..... The Cu Chi Tunnels lie 75 km northwest of Ho Chi Min City. At the time of the Vietnam war, the tunnel system stretched from the outskirts of Saigon all the way to the Cambodian border:  something like 250 kilometers of tunnels. The tunnel system, built over 25 years starting in the 1940s, let the Viet Minh and, later, the Viet Cong, control a huge rural area.  It was an underground city with living areas, kitchens, storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers.  In places, it was several stories deep and housed up to 10,000 people who virtually lived underground for years getting married, giving birth, going to school. They only came out at night to furtively tend their crops..
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  • Vietnam,  Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War. Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism. Sometimes, these spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers. Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most famous battlegrounds of the Vietnam War. Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism. Sometimes, these spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers...Cu Chi: tour guide showing the narrow entrance to the vietcong/vietmin tunnels. The Cu Chi Tunnels lie 75 km northwest of Ho Chi Min City. At the time of the Vietnam war, the tunnel system stretched from the outskirts of Saigon all the way to the Cambodian border:  something like 250 kilometers of tunnels. The tunnel system, built over 25 years starting in the 1940s, let the Viet Minh and, later, the Viet Cong, control a huge rural area.  It was an underground city with living areas, kitchens, storage, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers.  In places, it was several stories deep and housed up to 10,000 people who virtually lived underground for years getting married, giving birth, going to school. They only came out at night to furtively tend their crops..
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  • Vietnam, Tour guide showing photos of American bases during the war along Route 9 of the DMZ... DMZ stands for "Demilitarized Zone." It's a line along the Ben Hai river, at almost exactly the 17th parallel, which divided Vietnam into North and South. Ho Chi Minh's forces and the French agreed, in 1954, to set it up as a temporary boundary. But the DMZ divided Vietnam for more than 20 years. North and South Vietnam developed separately, with the North following communism and the South capitalism. During the American War, the DMZ was anything but "demilitarized": some of the heaviest fighting took place here. Since 1976, when Vietnam was reunified, the old DMZ technically went away. But divisions remain. Vietnamese people still talk about "north" and "south." The old north, with its old capital Hanoi, is now the capital of all Vietnam -- and "southerners" I talked to didn't have much good to say about northeners. I took a day-long tour to former military sites along the former DMZ. A lot of the phyisical evidence of the war is gone -- overgrown by jungle, replanted into fields, rebuilt from rubble. But there's still lots to see, including thousands (or millions) of bomb craters. There's also lots that you can't see, like thousands of mines still buried -- and still killing people. All in all, it's a sobering place that still brings back the horror of the war. ..
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  • Vietnam, DMZ: Khe Sanh, selling war souvenirs to tourists and veterans.Here  US had a famous airbase. This was one of the most (in)famous battle sites of the war. To distract the Americans from the Tet Offensive that they were going to launch in the south, the communists started a siege of the base at Khe Sanh, here on the DMZ. US President Johnson, who was determined to avoid another disaster like the one the French suffered not long before at Dien Bien Phu, made the Joint Chiefs of Staff sign a written pledge that they wouldn't lose Khe Sanh. They didn't lose at Khe Sanh -- though the cost in human lives was terrible. And, as it turned out, the Tet Offensive -- for which Khe Sanh was just a smokescreen -- was the beginning of the end of the war
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  • Vietnam,DMZ: Khe Sanh, selling war souvenirs to tourists and veterans.Here  US had a famous airbase. This was one of the most (in)famous battle sites of the war. To distract the Americans from the Tet Offensive that they were going to launch in the south, the communists started a siege of the base at Khe Sanh, here on the DMZ. US President Johnson, who was determined to avoid another disaster like the one the French suffered not long before at Dien Bien Phu, made the Joint Chiefs of Staff sign a written pledge that they wouldn't lose Khe Sanh. They didn't lose at Khe Sanh -- though the cost in human lives was terrible. And, as it turned out, the Tet Offensive -- for which Khe Sanh was just a smokescreen -- was the beginning of the end of the war
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: tourists buying gadgets at the War Museum...Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam,DMZ. Souvenir photo at the memorial museum at Khe Shan US airbase. Many of the visitors to these sites, like most of their guides, are too young to remember the war. Relatively few tourists come from the United States. For most people who come here, the war is a distant curiosity. But for the last few years, since travel to Vietnam became more open, groups of American veterans have come in search of remembered battlefields. A small number of American tour companies specialize in guiding them and gaining permission to visit remote areas
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  • Vietnam,  Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu : Vietnamese veteran at the War Meseun in Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle between French and Vietnamese Communist forces (called the Vietminh) after World War Two, took place at the town of Dien Biên in northwestern Vietnam. The defeat of over twenty-thousand French troops on 7 May 1954 after a fifty-five day siege of the camp led directly to the division of Vietnam into two countries. French forces at Dien Bien Phu found themselves surrounded and cut off. After nearly a two-month siege, the Viet Minh overran Dien Bien Phu, prompting the end of French Indochina. Today, Dien Bien Phu is a major city and is scheduled to replace Lai Chau as the provincial capital. Ironically, the development is threatening to overrun the battlefield.
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu : Vietnamese veteran at the War Meseun in Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle between French and Vietnamese Communist forces (called the Vietminh) after World War Two, took place at the town of Dien Biên in northwestern Vietnam. The defeat of over twenty-thousand French troops on 7 May 1954 after a fifty-five day siege of the camp led directly to the division of Vietnam into two countries. French forces at Dien Bien Phu found themselves surrounded and cut off. After nearly a two-month siege, the Viet Minh overran Dien Bien Phu, prompting the end of French Indochina. Today, Dien Bien Phu is a major city and is scheduled to replace Lai Chau as the provincial capital. Ironically, the development is threatening to overrun the battlefield.
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu : Vietnamese veteran at the War Meseun in Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle between French and Vietnamese Communist forces (called the Vietminh) after World War Two, took place at the town of Dien Biên in northwestern Vietnam. The defeat of over twenty-thousand French troops on 7 May 1954 after a fifty-five day siege of the camp led directly to the division of Vietnam into two countries. French forces at Dien Bien Phu found themselves surrounded and cut off. After nearly a two-month siege, the Viet Minh overran Dien Bien Phu, prompting the end of French Indochina. Today, Dien Bien Phu is a major city and is scheduled to replace Lai Chau as the provincial capital. Ironically, the development is threatening to overrun the battlefield.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
    Vietnam war tourism26.jpg
  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam, Ho Chi Min City: playing with war  games.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu :  souvenir picture of a french legionaire in the  war cemetery...
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu :  souvenir photos taken by a tank left from the indipendance  battle against the French army in 1954 spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers.
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  • Vietnam, Hue :the entrance of the  Imperial capital, old vietnamese capital...Buildings in the central court of the Imperial City at Hué that were badly damaged during the Vietnam War are now topped with vegetation and surrounded by grassy fields...In 1968 the North Vietnamese army launched the Tet Offensive against U.S. troops who responded with heavy bombing that destroyed many buildings in Hué, the old imperial capital.....
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  • Vietnam, Hué: model of the ancient imperial town. ..Buildings in the central court of the Imperial City at Hué that were badly damaged during the Vietnam War are now topped with vegetation and surrounded by grassy fields...In 1968 the North Vietnamese army launched the Tet Offensive against U.S. troops who responded with heavy bombing that destroyed many buildings in Hué, the old imperial capital...
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  • Vietnam, Ho Chi Min City: bullets souvenir at the war museum.
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu : souvenir picture at the bunker where frenc... commetted suicide in the independance war.
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu :  souvenir photos taken by a tank left from the indipendance  battle against the French army in 1954 spots seem to be memorials to wartime propaganda as much to the war itself. in their new struggle for foreign currency, the Vietnamese are exploiting their harsh history, offering visits to long-forgotten places that were once considered vital to America's national interests. Most of the visitors here are foreigners; the Vietnamese who come are mostly schoolchildren with their teachers.
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  • Vietnam,Ho Chi Minh City: Once known as the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes, the name change reflects a desire not to offend wealthy tourists. Despite the rhetoric, this museum has become one of the most popular attractions with Western visitors of all political persuasions. It is a stark reminder that wars rarely have winners and are never glorious. Along with the many photographs, the museum displays US armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, bombs and infantry weapons. There is even a guillotine used by the French on pesky Viet Minh 'troublemakers'.
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  • Vietnam, Hue :the entrance of the  Imperial capital, old vietnamese capital...Buildings in the central court of the Imperial City at Hué that were badly damaged during the Vietnam War are now topped with vegetation and surrounded by grassy fields...In 1968 the North Vietnamese army launched the Tet Offensive against U.S. troops who responded with heavy bombing that destroyed many buildings in Hué, the old imperial capital..... Vietnam, Hue the citadel, old town  imperial town
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  • Vietnam, Ho Chi Minn:books about wars in vietnam.
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  • Vietnam, Hanoi: young boys on the streets selling books about the wars in  Vietnam..
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  • Vietnam, Ho Chi Min City. symbols of the Communist Party
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  • Vietnam,DMZ, Khe Sanh: visiting the a memorial museum with lot of military hardware, the outlines of the old airfield - and the unidentified (and still lost) remains of some of the people who died there. Sometimes  tour guides had led search parties and veterans who still come to the area to look for bodies or to connect with the terrible past here.
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  • Vietnam,DMZ. souvenir photo at the end of the tunnel. The North and South bombarded each other over and over again. To survive, villagers who lived here built underground tunnel complexes. Tunnels collapsed under bombardment, or naturally -- sometimes killing the people inside. One complex that survived is near the village of Vinh Moc...The tour that takes you through these claustrophobic passages -- as much as 25 meters (about 80 feet) underground -- gives you a good idea of the will to survive that the Vietnamese had. Tens of thousands of villagers lived down here for as many as five days at a time. Seventeen babies were born in the underground delivery room.As you walk farther and farther underground, you pass holes dug into the walls at the sides of the tunnels where families lived during the frequent bombardments.....
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  • Vietnam, Ha Long Bay. militars
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  • Vietnam, Hanoi: Ho Chi Min mausoleum.
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  • Vietnam, Saigon: at the Apocaypse Now discotheque.
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  • Vietnam, Cu Chi, viet women guerrilla. visitors are greeted by a sign reading: "Please try to be a Cu Chi guerrilla. Wear these uniforms before entering tunnel." Black pajamas, pith helmets, rubber sandals and old rifles are available.
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  • Vietnam,DMZ, Khe Sanh: visiting the a memorial museum with lot of military hardware, the outlines of the old airfield - and the unidentified (and still lost) remains of some of the people who died there. Sometimes  tour guides had led search parties and veterans who still come to the area to look for bodies or to connect with the terrible past here.
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  • Vietnam,DMZ, Khe Sanh: visiting the a memorial museum with lot of military hardware, the outlines of the old airfield - and the unidentified (and still lost) remains of some of the people who died there. Sometimes  tour guides had led search parties and veterans who still come to the area to look for bodies or to connect with the terrible past here.
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  • Vietnam,DMZ, Khe Sanh: visiting the a memorial museum with lot of military hardware, the outlines of the old airfield - and the unidentified (and still lost) remains of some of the people who died there. Sometimes  tour guides had led search parties and veterans who still come to the area to look for bodies or to connect with the terrible past here.
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  • Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu :a huge  crater left from a bomb during the indipendence battle against the  French army in 1954.
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  • Vietnam, Hanoi: Ho Chi Min Stautue.
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  • Vietnam, Ho Chi Min City:Ho Chi Min statue.
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  • Vietnam, Cu Chi, tour guide showing to the tourists home made traps made by Vietcong with natural materials such as wood and bamboo. They used as well to recycle unexploded  Americans bombs, and animals like snakes and bees. Everything was allowed to fight the enemy.
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  • Vietnam,DMZ, Khe Sanh: visiting the a memorial museum with lot of military hardware, the outlines of the old airfield - and the unidentified (and still lost) remains of some of the people who died there. Sometimes  tour guides had led search parties and veterans who still come to the area to look for bodies or to connect with the terrible past here.
    Vietnam war tourism21.jpg
  • Vietnam,DMZ, Khe Sanh: visiting the a memorial museum with lot of military hardware, the outlines of the old airfield - and the unidentified (and still lost) remains of some of the people who died there. Sometimes  tour guides had led search parties and veterans who still come to the area to look for bodies or to connect with the terrible past here.
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  • Vietnam, DMZ: plan of tunnel area inside the museum..
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  • Vietnam, DMZ: Tourist taking a picture at Rockpile Hill. Along Route 9 are a series of old US military bases and other sites. Rockpile is a 230-meter-high, well, pile of rocks. This was one of the bases along the "McNamara Wall" where Americans tried to stop the flow of arms and people from north to south.
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  • Berlin: graffiti in Mitte area
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  • Berlin: advertise and graffiti in Mitte area
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  • Vietnam, Ha Long Bay. militars Vietnam, Ha Long Bay
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  • Berlin: advertise and graffiti in Mitte area
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  • Singapore, war memorial park junction
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  • Vietnam, Dien Biem Phu: vietnamese veteran in the independecy war against french.
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  • Berlino:  Checkpoint Charlie, symbol of the Cold War was the gateway between the two berlin sides
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  • Vietnam, Saigon: War Museum.
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  • Italy, Florence, Fortezza da Basso, Fitfestival, aquadance lesson.   The Fortezza da Basso in Florence is the name of the fortress that hosts the Fitfestival, the most important, long-awaited fitness festival in its twentieth edition. The castle-walls and the towers are like soldiers of the Folgore with ropes and rope-ladders ready for the "assault on the fort". It seems that even the showgirl Seredova has participated in the enterprise; but otherwise, "anatomical"   graces being shown off aren't the main thing. Better to proceed on towards the entrance, where brochures about safe sex are distributed. Not that it's a bad thing, good heavens no, but it's like saying smoking is bad for your health in a chocolate store, seeing as the fitness festival is made out to be the anti-sex, anti-eroticism fair - a joyous war machine battling against cellulite and stretch marks; an aerobics course of autogenous training for feeling good: physically, socially and in a bathing suit. <br />
   Fitness is a large family that ranges from the martial arts to massages and is a constantly expanding world. At the Fitfestival, which candidates itself as the Italian fitness capital, you can find everything. Maybe even too much, because if you wish to combine fitness and well-being, how then do you combine an amateur soccer game with the BMX and skateboarding and other highly dangerous activities?...
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  • ST. MORITZ , Switzerland, February 24-25: THE ICE international concours of elegance, Simon Arscott from England is the owner on the left, and his friend Nick Sullivan , Esquire art director on the right. Simon is a pro car collector and brought in St. Moritz an Aston Martin , 2 litre speed model, 1937, category "Queen on Wheels". this car is is one of only 23 Speed Models, the most advanced and best-performing pre-war Aston-Martin model, designed to incorporate significant improvements over the previous MkII and Ulster models as well as boasting a bigger more powerful 2 litre engine.
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