Vespa meeting - Oldtimer in Munich on May 11 and 12 May, 2024

 Event tip: OLDTIMER - Vespa in Munich: 5th World Vespa Meeting, May 10th to 12th, 2024 - Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum in Munich

 

“200 Fari Bassi” - scooter riders from the oldest Vespa club in Munich at the snail sculpture in front of the traffic center of the German Museum

 

The annual Vespa world meeting, which is taking place this weekend in Munich, is part of the classic car culture (German, French,  Italian )

Munich. 5th World Vespa Meeting, May 10th to 12th, 2024: On Saturday, May 11th, as part of the World Vespa Meeting, the Vespa Corso will lead across the city from the German Museum to the Bavaria statue and the snail sculpture in front of the German Museum's transport center. The Evangelical Student Community, “Vespa Oldtimer Friends Munich” and the German Museum are organizing the Corso together. The meeting will take place again this year in Munich - the scooter friends last met in Munich in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2010. Further information and the program for the World Vespa Meeting: vespafreunde.de. At the scooter meeting, “200 Fari Bassi” - scooter riders from the oldest Vespa club in Munich meet at the snail sculpture in front of the traffic center of the German Museum. Here is more information about the snail cult in this blog: Bavaria Park around the Old Trade Fair Square in April 2020 - Old Trade Fair Square - Bavaria Park - Transport Museum - Wirtshaus am Bavaria Park - in GERMAN:  Bavariapark rund um den Alten Messeplatz im April 2020 - Alter Messeplatz – Bavariapark – Verkehrsmuseum – Wirtshaus am Bavariapark

Snail sculpture in front of the German Museum - Transport Center in Munich, photo: A. Waess

The club's more than 100 members come with their scooters

... including the GS 1, GS 2, GS 3, GS 4 models, the Vespa Type U, T1 to T4, which still have small frames and of course the “lamp below”. In the museum we also see exotics such as Allstates, Acmas, Douglas or the well-known Hoffmann and also the Messerschmitt Vespas - or of course the Callessino versions "The Ape".

 

    A special attraction will be the acrobatic show of the roller species - at 2:30 p.m. at Schneckenplatz. A “stunt show” created in the 1950s.
     
    For scooters, the dealer area at the traffic center will be open from 10 a.m. Here we marvel at over 250 vintage Vespa cars. You can also exchange or buy rare original parts in front of the traffic center and in the museum courtyard.

Further highlights of the World Vespa Meeting are on Saturday, May 11, 2024

•     at 1:00 p.m. the Concours d’Elégance,
•     at 2:30 p.m. said acrobatic show at SCHNECKENPLATZ
•     and then from 4 p.m. the Vespa parade from Theresienhöhe to Bavaria.

German Museum - Transport Center in Munich / Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum in Munich, photo: A. Waess

 

Special exhibition on VESPA in the German Museum Transport Center (Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum) behind the Bavaria sculpture

The most beautiful, most valuable and also rarest Vespas are from the years 1946 to 1957 and are exhibited in HALL I of the transport center.

 Venue: German Museum Transport Center / Deutschem Museum Verkehrszentrum

Hall 2 and forecourt

Am Bavariapark 5 80339 Munich

Deutsches Museum - Verkehrszentrum in München, photo: A. Waess