The Essen Motorshow was a showcase of the motorsports industry in its origin. Throughout the years, theMotorshow changed into a place where tuning and aftermarket companies gathered, and showed theirgoods to the wide public. Since a few years, there’s even an indoor drift track in the Essen Motorshow premises.Another, to me more important, evolution is the presence of the vintage car scene. Both vendors of cars and parts, and vintage car clubs bring lots of amazing stuff to the Essen Messe, for most vintage car enthusiasts known as the venue where theTechnoclassica takes place.
After visiting the different vintage car dealers, and inspecting the several vintage Porsches for sale at the Motorshow, there’s only oneconclusion to be made. Prices keep going up, and it’s getting more and more difficult, if not impossible to find a decent vintage Porsche for a fair price. Early Porsches 911 seem to be selling for money no one could have imagined 10 years ago. Cars that years ago would have been scrapped for parts, arenow sold for big bucks. I guess as long a sthe worldwide economical and financial crisis isn’t over, the vintage car market will be bullish and good cars willbe looked after and sold for huge bags of cash.
One of the main Porsche tuners, Techart presented the brandnew Porsche 911Turbo and Turbo S models, making clear that even high powered factory carscan be strengthened and customized to whatever one wants a car to look like.
Despite not being my favorite show, because I’m more into vintage cars, once again the visit to the Essen Motorshow learned me a lot about the current market,and gave joy to see what the motorsport industry, aftermarket and tuner companies had to offer, next to the always present show-girls