The third edition of Retro Classics Bavaria is fast approaching. From December 7 to 9, 2018, the event will take place at the Nuremberg Exhibition Center, covering an area of 40,000 square meters and filled with classic cars, youngtimers, neo-classics and a parts & accessories market. Another detail is now known.
One of the announced special shows is called: "BMW at the International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition (IAMA) 1936-1938" The special show at Retro Classics Bavaria, which focuses on BMW, will offer visitors a journey through time with regional color: Framed by archive material and stylish decorations, some of the most valuable automobiles and two-wheelers that the Munich-based manufacturer presented at the IAMA in Berlin at the time will be on display. "BMW was very strong in the 1930s," says Harald Klemann, President of the internationally active BMW Club Mobile Classic e.V., which is organizing the exhibition. "It was the heyday of the large limousines.
BMW also caused a sensation in motor racing, for example with the BMW 328 presented at the Eifelrennen in June 1936. The jewel in the crown of the Nuremberg show is a BMW 328 Fachsenfeld Coupé: The one-off based on a BMW 328 was fitted with a streamlined body based on designs by Stuttgart inventor and racing driver Freiherr Reinhard Koenig-Fachsenfeld.
A look back at the IAMA
The first forerunner event of the IAMA took place in 1897. It was the first motor show in Germany and took place in Berlin in front of the Hotel Bristol.
The motor cars of the members of the "Central European Motor Car Association" could be admired here. There were four Benz, two Lutzmann, one Daimler and an electric car from Eduard Kühlstein.
The concept quickly caused a sensation. Two years later, 100 exhibitors from Germany and abroad took part in the third edition, and in 1905 the 7th IAA (International Motor Show) was personally opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II. In view of the rapid increase in motorized two-wheelers on the roads, the name was changed to IAMA in 1933: "International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition".
Matra special show
Matra models from the late 1960s, such as the Bagheera, the 530, the Rancho and the Murena, which are rarely seen today, can also be admired at the exhibition in Hall 4A.
The official website of Bavaria Classics offers additional information.
