Bavaria Tour 2006 continued...

Day 1.

Was a tour from the Ammergauer Haus (town hall) out into the beautiful Bavarian and Austrian Alps, for breath taking scenery, we were split into 3 different routes with several breaks and lunch thrown in along the way – providing you could find them. The Alps were very testing for these old cars & several did have problems with brakes over-heating and poor running (including me) in the thin hot atmosphere. Mobile Tradition followed the routes in a 4.8iS X5 in Mobile Tradition livery – impressive when they stopped to help my asthmatic Turbo.

Once everyone found their way back to Oberammegau some of us met up a fantastic hotel with a massive TV screen (you guessed it) to watch the football, as during our Bavaria Tour of course the World Cup was being held in Germany. Great food and of course plenty of beers were consumed. Regrettably some cars were vandalized the first night, including 2 UK cars and some foreign cars, they had their door mirrors ripped off and badges stolen, by some mindless vandals, lucky for them we never caught them. Fortunately that seemed the end of it and the police and everyone was extra vigilant that evening.

Day 2.

Trip to Munich via a BMW Dealer in Iffeldorf, which we (9 UK cars couldn’t find), then onto the Theresienwiese at Munich which is basically a massive park ground in the centre of Munich. All the various models parked in there classes, 13 Turbo’s in total 1 of which was Mobile Traditions car, the now famous “new” Inka Tii looking stunning – great to finally see in the flesh, all the Neu Klass cars were parked together, race/modified cars, cabriolets and convertibles – which I have never seen so many or likely ever to again. The was a mint CSL Batmobile, and a convertible CS very professional done.

Various trips were arranged throughout the blistering hot day, some people got to see the fantastic Mobile Tradition museum, we were supposed to see the Brewery but found out it was cancelled at the last minute, so had to make do with the local transport museum next to the Theresienwiese (Park). The weather was blistering hot and I even saw on a temp gauge along side the road it said 42oC.