60th Anniversary celebration of Volkswagen vans
09/10/2007
It is 60 years since Volkswagen produced the first design for a van and it is celebrating the prolific history of its Transporter by hosting an international event at the Hanover exhibition centre in Germany from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 October 2007.
In 1947, a vehicle that staff had built to transport heavy panels around Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg factory provided the inspiration for the concept sketch for the first Volkswagen T1 van, famous for its split-windscreen.
Since then, Volkswagen vans, from the original T1 to today’s T5, have become legendary and put to a wide spectrum of uses – by commercial customers, as a holiday campervan, people carrier, and most famously as the cool transport of choice for the flower-power generation and the surfing community.
Scarcely any other vehicle invokes as many emotions as the Volkswagen van, or “Bulli” as it is known by many of its fans. It is a real cult vehicle. This is the first time Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will have hosted such an event and hundreds of unusual and historic Volkswagen vans are expected to make the journey to the three-day event to enjoy a full entertainment programme.
There are over 3,000 parking spaces available and a weekend ticket costs €25 per vehicle. For more information, or for anyone with a Volkswagen van or camper wanting to attend, there is a link to a website for the event at www.vwn.de.