Expensive, but also cheap VW Beetles at the Bilweb auction of a car collection in Sweden
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On September 22, 2018, Bilweb Auctions auctioned Sweden's largest Volkswagen collection online, with over 70 cars going under the hammer, most of them VW Beetles from 1948 onwards. Bengt Holmgren had previously tried to sell his extensive museum "en block", but was unsuccessful. The early Beetle variants in particular shone at the auction. This auction report analyzes the results and shows pictures of many of the vehicles on offer.
This article contains the following chapters
- Collected by a true enthusiast
- The oldest Beetle was the most expensive
- The youngest Beetle reached over EUR 100,000
- Not just beetles!
- Specialties too
- Vehicles offered and sold
Estimated reading time: 3min
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Bengt Holmgren is certainly a big Beetle fan, after all he had amassed the largest collection of Wolfsburg creepy-crawlies that exists, or existed, in Sweden. In September 2018, this collection, which contained beetle specimens from almost every year between 1948 and 2003, was auctioned online by Bilweb. Bengt Holmgren really was an enthusiast, because he spared no effort to complete his collection. He always preferred original, unrestored examples to perfectly restored cars. The stories behind the cars were important to him. And so most of the cars on display in his museum in Pålsboda, around 2 to 3 hours west of Stockholm, can look back on an exciting past.
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