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Don’t tell me I never told You… you get a report every year about this show I attend for a straight 25 years in a row (except for one I missed because of a confirmation of my Godson)

This year was bigger, busier, more crowded and more special as ever! You really have to do this pilgrimage at least once in your life!

As every big show line up to come in was p^retty long…. thanks god i drove in on Thursday evening already…

This would win my price for most heavy bus in a blink!

And most cool license plate as well! It’s very hard to get a personalised license plate in Germany is what they always told me, so this guy scored big time!

Friend Stepan showed us his first raw castings of the Porsche PreA cylinder head… very very nice!!!

Type 3 squareback delivery van, very weird, and very rare car, this one was really outstanding!

BBT Friends of Holland checking out a bus for sale…

Yep, this is a real German swap, with all toys etc for sale as well!!!

Claimed to be a Karmann Type 36 kind of prototype, it was a weird car indeed! But not to my taste….

….so I didn’t buy it… but if you’re in for it here’s all the information…. will be still available…:)

One more view from the back….

“Teilemarkt” as they call a swap meet in German was crowded whole day long!

Always good to see some NOS BBT parts on the swap….

General overview give You about an impression from the size, and this is probably only a quarter of the total space!

Real swap atmosphere!

Car on display division was even larger as the swap!

Early split just drove by…. (see the banana bumpers, this car is build prior to 1949)

Let’s go party now!!! Big holiday fever feeling here!

Two pieces of candy….

Convertible sitting low…
Animation “full force”… these guys where crazy!

Also Germans do love “patina”….. yammie!

Ghia line up…

Pop top panel…. something is wrong here…:)

more of it tomorrow….:) stay tuned!!!!!

This week not a FPU as 1st of May is Bank holiday almost in entire Europe.

So I was hardly home and jumped in my 23 window Deluxe and set of to Germany for the weekend…

The German Autobahn from behind a splitty steering wheel…

and some times You need to poor some gas in my old partner in crime…

Getting busy before the long weekend….

First small detour leads me over very cool “Landstrasse” to my friend Christian Grundmann who has (as usual) something new going on.

Entering the historic town of Hessisch Oldendorf. To all overseas VW nuts, this is how it looks without VW’s…LOL…:)

This picture is the epicenter of all christian Grundmann’s new things…. Mr Friedrich Rometsch. The guy that gave the world one of the most beautiful affordable coachbuild cars…

and this is the new museum Christian and Traugot Grundmann build to honor the brand of Rometsch….

cool huh… not finished yet as the wall should be decorated anytime soon…

De rest of their museum is cool as always for a quick tour…. thanks to Ulrich for guiding me!

and back behind the wheel to next destination…

to arrive an hour later at the hotel… our Samba seems to be in good company….

Stay tuned, more tomorrow, where not home yet!

we’re closed for May 1st, but our shop will be open to our Retail public on Saturday May 2nd from 9am till 4pm

May 1st we will will visit Germany largest VW event… the 1st of May Volkswagen treffen in Hannover, all information on this link;

http://www.kaefertreffen.de/