Collectors & Aficionados
Samuele Colombo, or rather: Knowing how to do what you love
Samuele Colombo, a 31-year-old who has been working on classic cars since he was 13, speaks about his passion for restoring car engines.
He started going to his father's workshop, Autocolombo Laco in Bareggio, when he was 10 years old, and at 13 he began to work. He was immediately attracted to classic cars. Today Samuele Colombo is 31 years old and says, smiling “for almost twenty years I have woken up happy every morning, because I know that I go to work to do the thing I love the most: bringing back to life car engines that I believe are true works of art”.
One of the great joys of Samuele is the opportunity to touch mechanical components with his bare hands
Listening to him is a pleasure and is a way of understanding many things from the great world of collecting and passion. “The thing that fascinates me most about my job is without question being the first to touch certain pieces, I feel like a doctor operating on a patient. I find it truly romantic to be able to restore these technical masterpieces. My work is also similar to an archaeologist who has to research documents and discover hidden secrets, just like Indiana Jones. Being able to solve a problem on a car that nobody has managed before is another great satisfaction.
