Rallying the former sea and the canals of Holland

You may know that the PostWarClassics head quarters are based in The Netherlands. And you may also know that we Dutch have something with water. Waterways, canals, dykes, rivers. There’s water everywhere here. And when the temperature gets below the 0 degrees mark, Dutchmen go wild on skating. It’s the case at the moment. We cannot yet skate but we are covered in snow and everyone is talking about ice skating once again.

Then it’s nice to look back upon that particularly harsh winter of 1962/1963. That winter lead to something spectacular, as the video above will show. The IJsselmeer was formerly part of the ‘Zuiderzee’ (Southern Sea). This was closed off from the North Sea by the construction of a tremendous dyke (which changed the salt water sea into a fresh water lake).

Anyhow: this huge lake was just about frozen solid in late ’62, which even lead to a road being laid out right over it, from the one side to the other side. A rally was even held on the lake with hundreds of cars participating and in the middle of the lake, a petrol station was set up for the occasion. We hope you enjoy this marvellous video. Would you take your car to a frozen lake?

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