Never before seen on the Club stand: the presentation of two UNIQUE cars. Our new Última Edición Club Beetle in "Snap-Orange" and the 1303 Cabrio "HARIBO". In 1976, Hans Riedel from Bonn ordered a special two-tone Beetle Cabriolet in brown with beige side panels and doors. Many thanks to our club members Erwin and Jörg Kock for making this unique example from their collection available for presentation at Techno Classica. Thanks also to Monika and Uwe Lojewski for the HARIBO decorations and the delicious HARIBO sweets. This fair is an ideal place for club members, Beetle enthusiasts and media representatives to meet and visit our stand.
The new Club Beetle and our involvement in Essen have once again attracted the attention of the international VW press: The attached excerpt can be found in the French magazine "Super VW" in a report on Techno Classica Essen: With reference to 80 years of VW Beetle and 15 years of Última Edición, our Club Beetle is pictured. The article says: "This event offers the opportunity to discover exceptional VWs, whether they are in professional or private hands. ... The VW Beetle Club Última Edición exhibited the rarest of the last Beetles, a red model painted to order by a former Volkswagen board member! In short, beautiful, extraordinary and rare". The illustration reads: "Rare! The only Beetle Última Edición in red, built in 2003 to the order of Prof. Wilfried Bockelmann..., which has now become part of Walter Köhler's collection! Once again, the Club has attracted special attention, which we can all share and which proves that the joint decision to buy was the right one.
Editor-in-chief Julien-David Collombet was the official journalist sent by Volkswagen Mexico to report on and photograph the end of Beetle production. When he saw the "Snap Orange Última" again at the Techno Classica in Essen, his joy was obvious. Yes, I saw this Beetle at the Puebla plant... and now here! Simply brilliant.
Julien-David Collombet always comes back to Techno Classica; last year he was also in Hessisch Oldendorf - always where the interested Volkswagens are to be seen.
