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Two VW Rometsch Beeskow Coupes Win at Amelia
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Two VW Rometsch Beeskow Coupes Win at Amelia

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The VW Beetle made its bow at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance and wowed the thousands of enthusiasts who attended the event. The class of 12 vehicles showed how the Beetle platform inspired coachbuilders around Europe to produce their own versions of the Volkswagen.

The coachbuilt VW field.

The Concours, now in its 24th year, traditionally features a special class that stands apart from concours orthodoxy. In the past, the Amelia Island Concours has featured the like of movie and advertising cars, but this year chose to highlight an overlooked segment of Europe’s carrozzeria (or karosserie) culture with a class of custom coachwork Volkswagen vehicles.

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1951 VW Rometsch Beeskow Coupe.  Automotive Photography by Deremer Studios LLC

Among the 12 very special vehicles, the winner of the Volkswagen of America Trophy for the Most Elegant Coachwork on a Volkswagen turned out to be the 1951 Rometsch Beeskow Coupe of Traugott Grundman from Oldendorf, Germany. ”It is a car that Beeskow designed for his wife and it’s as elegant as you can be on a Beetle chassis,” said Klaus Bischoff, Head of Volkswagen Design. “It has very nice details and fluent lines that is somewhere close to European design philosophy that is clean and puristic.”

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The 1954 Rometsch Beeskow Coupe of F. Scott Bosés and Celesta Pappas-Bosés claimed the Best in Class award. Automotive Photography by Deremer Studios LLC

Taking home the Best in Class honors was the 1954 Rometsch Beeskow Coupe belonging to F. Scott Bosés and Celesta Pappas-Bosés, of La Cañada, CA.

Rometsch was a Berlin-based coachbuilder founded in 1924. Their first VW-based project was a stretched wheelbase four-door taxi in 1950. The project was spearheaded by Johannes Beeskow, whose name was applied to a special-bodied aluminum sports car displayed at Geneva in 1951.

Beeskow was lured away by Karmann in the mid 1950s and Rometsch hired furniture designer Bert Lawrence to produce a modern sports car body. The company continued until 1961, when the Berlin Wall was built, effectively separating the company from half of its 90 employees.

1957 VW Rometsch Lawrence Convertible

Additional Amelia Awards were presented to the 1950 Hebmueller Convertible of Gene Langan from Glastonbury, CT and the 1957 Rometsch Lawrence Convertible of Gallaher Restorations in Landrum, SC.

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The 1969 VW “Wedding Beetle”. Automotive Photography by Deremer Studios LLC

As an indication of how popular the class was, the organizers invited Volkswagen of America’s Wedding Beetle to take part in the Parade of Significant Automobiles at the event, alongside multi-million dollar collector cars. The Wedding Beetle was the creation of a welder and blacksmith in Mexico City, Raphael Esparza Prieto, who created the outline of a Beetle in wrought iron to be used as a sign on top of a Volkswagen parts shop.

This caught the eye of Volkswagen and Prieto was commissioned to make two drivable versions of the sculpture as a publicity stunt at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. About 20 of these cars were built, mainly in response to orders from Volkswagen executives around the world.

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Casey M. Annis is the Founder and Editor of Vintage Road & Racecar magazine, as well as Editor of Alfa Owner, The Oily Rag and BMW Ultimate Classic magazines. He founded Parabolica Publishing in 1997 after a career in neurobiology. Along with his passion for automobiles, Casey is a long distance open-ocean paddleboard racer who’s competed over 10 times in the 32-mile Catalina to Manhattan Beach race and the 32-mile Molokai to Oahu race. Casey still contributes and writes about the world of vintage road and racecars and edits and curates the content for this website.
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