The coachbuilders clan

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Coachbuilding as a family affair - the Castricums from the village of Winkel in rural Holland prove it can be done. Some three years ago Juri Castricum (30; in photo above slightly younger) took over his father’s company, securing the family business in to the 4th generation. Juri’s great grandfather started things back in the early 1920s selling petrol and servicing motor cars to those privileged. But it was his grand father who developed a taste for the older stuff once the rumble of the War had been cleared. Juri: “On one of the pictures you will spot a 1928 Chevrolet in my grandfather’s workshop. There are tools hanging on the wall that we use to this day.” By the 1980s the Castricums had built a reputation for prewar cars, and Juri grew up around A-Fords and Bugatti project cars: “I dwelled around in my father’s workshop, behind our house, every day. Usually because I had to cross the place when taking my bike out. That’s me in the workshop as a youngster. The Ford was sold new to the vicar in our village.” By now Juri is more and more specializing in coachbuilding (click), and currently he is building up two Alvis chassis’ with new ash frames and alloy bodies - a trade he learned from his father. He has an Alvis Speed 20 Special himself, too. “I’d never fall for a postwar car. They are just too modern for my taste.” Now who said younger generations do not know their classics..? You can meet Juri (4th generation) and Theo(3rd generation) at this weekends show in Maastricht, Holland.       

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