Hmm, the old pics are broken, buit if neccessary, maybe I still have them somewhere.

I'm lifting up this thread although it's 5 years old, because I hate it, to clutter forums up with annoying masses of too many threads.

Plus the perception, that my introducing-text from 2010 is still adequate. This year I've been there only for one day, but the impressions are still the same.
It became even worse! The Techno Classica is mutated to a show and sales market for terribly overpriced cars. And the masses of ridicoulous-priced-car-dealers have the reult, that less and less clubs (for those the place is free) participate. And there are less and less dealers for new and used original spare parts, displaced by too many rim-chromaters, leather-seat-makers and high-price-car-polish-sellers.

So you only can use this event for making and intensify your contacts inside the scene and making photos. To buy anything, you can forget. The only things, I have found for me, were two K 70-brochures (rare, but I already own them), but the seller, a wangler from Brussels didn't accept my price.

I have purchased only one thing - the original Volkswagen-Currywurst!
No kidding, it's original from the VW-internal caterer for the German plants. The employees like it, so it became wider popular - yes it has an own original VW-spare-parts-number!!
Btw.: this food, a Currywurst with Pommes Frites/French Fries and Mayonnaise, is the No.1 canteen-meal all around in Germany.







I start with my today's shock experience
After I'd strolled though the most of the 14 halls, I really thought "Hihi, Europe's biggest classic car event with over 150.000 visitors and not any Rootes-crap anywhere, except some single brochures for sale. But then I got a deep shock!







I was that paralysed, that it took some minutes to notice the real interesting bits at the club-stand of
http://sunbeamtreffen.oyla18.de/cgi-bin/hpm_homepage.cgi









When I asked the Sunbeam-freaks, how many Imps they have in their club, they said "Just two. We are exclusively focussed on Alpine and Tiger, any other Rootes-cars are just exotic gimmicks. But among our Spanish and Belgian fellas there some hardcore-Imp-ists"
They also said, that they are not really familiar with all details of the Rootes-history. One Alpine-owner said "Once I've seen on a meeting in Britain three Imps standing side-by-side. A Hillman, a Sunbeam and a Singer - I couldn't recognize any difference!"



































There is a German "Sapo"-Club- didn't know that!