I had good times at the VolksWorld 2013, 2015 and 2016 and so the UK biggest and best VW Show was calling me last weekend.
I visited the VolksWorld on Saturday the 25th March 2017 at the Sandown Park Racecourse in Esher near London.
After an early morning flight with Ryanair and about 100 miles in a rental car I arrived at 9:00 a.m. only 4 miles away from the Volksworld in a big traffic jam. One hour and 4 miles later I was at the car park.
The sun was shining, the entrance was still closed and hundreds of VW fans were waiting. Before the entrance was a nice line of 1967 VW Beetles for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of this model.
With delay, at about 10:05 a.m. they opened the entrance. This year everybody had to collect the ticket inside, because they did not sent out ticket-letters like the years before. Because of that, it was amazingly slow and unprofessional to get in.
After I was inside, I went straight outside where it was pleasant because the crowds are going to "the show cars” first.
I am always a bit scared to go in the basement area because they sold food there in the past and it was always smelly. Luckily this years they did not sell food and the VWs in the basement were just as great as above. This year was also the 30th VolksWorld magazine 1987-2017 anniversary celebration and on the show they had ex show and magazine cover cars.
The show was great again and will come back in the future.
Below a selection of 128 pictures of the Volksworld Show 2017.
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