Throughout the entire month of February Autoworld, Bugs take the spotlight. This year, the focus is on cars which have undergone conversions.
While the permanent exhibition of Autoworld is quite impressive and enumerates several exciting specimens, the series of guest exhibitions provide plenty of reasons for a revisit. The Museum usually hosts four-six major shows a year (I highly recommend to revisit the article on the Porsche 70 exhibition).
In addition, the two ground floor exposition spaces are often used for smaller (sometimes ad hoc) exhibitions encompassing about a dozen cars. February usually sees the return of bugs, for the 12th time this year with a temporary exhibition between the 1st February and 15th March culminating in a VW Beetle parade on Sunday the 16th.
This year’s thematic is particularly colourful, as the VW Beetle’s chassis have inspired quite a few projects, from leisure to sports cars.
The first set of cars by the entrance list rad cars that were based on the Beetle, from a rare Brazilian coupé to through close relatives like a 356 conversion and a rat style outlaw.
The second stage featured more thorough conversions like the Beetle with a transparent chassis, and amphibious car and a few VW Bullies.
The last set lined up race cars from all sort of racing series. They included kit cars, a classic Formula V down to a Porsche 911 Le Mans competing at last year’s 24h of Spa paying homage to Herbie.
Honestly, this article came a bit late, as I postponed my visit to the day of the parade. At the same time, the Transformation exhibition was already an electrifying sight.
The parade also included several exotic cars while many conformist Beetles took up a bit of makeup for the occasion, from police sirens to pink decals.
