Here is a slideshow of some of the cars which were on this run.

https://s607.photobucket.com/albums/tt154/vintagevansportugal/Portugal%20VW%20Classic/?albumview=slideshow 

It started with a small convoy to Torres Vedras, where the VW dealership had arranged parking. Then a drive through to Mafra for wine tasting: along winding roads to the seaside village of Ericeira where the council had arranged a drive through the town to park up above the harbour for public to look round the cars. Then to finish a good dinner.

I drove a 58 sunroof which had just had a low mileage 34 hp engine fitted: my favourite car of the day was a 56 (I think) in patina silver - he'd dragged it from a garage, got it running, MOT'd it and was running as found. Ran very well.

I was hoping to see a larger selection of earlier cars, but in the end, the owners were very passionate about the cars, and it was certainly a change from the shows I last went to back in the UK pre 1995.

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Thanks for the link to the slide show. Looks like some good cars have survived in Portugal. Thanks for sharing the photographs on the web site.

I was surprised to see a number of early cars the first time i visited Valenca (in the north). Everyone seems to know of a place where there are beetles (more than often no longer around), one trip suprising me with a splitty being used to store grain!

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