Trees, sheets of metal blended together, an embrace between car and nature. This place was real, nestled in the forest near Bern. Its origins hark back to 1933, when W. Messerli began storing cars in his garden, to use their parts to make tractors. After the Second World War, faced with the industrialized production of farm machinery, he moved into the spare parts business. Unfortunately, the oil crisis in the '70’s sounded the death knell of these old gas guzzlers.

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