Volkswagen’s sausage surprise marks 50th anniversary of German manufacturer’s Golf at Buckie Classic Car Show
Car manufacturing giant Volkswagen surprised visitors to a classic car show with a tasty treat.
While famous for its cars, a lesser-known fact is that German manufacturer Volkswagen also makes sausages.
A deal struck between Buckie Classic Car Show and the Wolfsburg-based car company saw 70 Bratwurst sausages sent to the Moray town.
Along with the sausages, sachets of curried tomato sauce were posted over from northern Germany, so visitors to the show were able to sample Currywurst while observing Volkswagen classics.
John Clark, the organiser of Buckie Classic Car Show - which was attended by a crowd well into the thousands at the weekend - explained how a telephone call led to the bizarre deal.
“This year is the 50th anniversary of the Volkwagen Golf and that is a big thing for us,” he said. “It has a huge following, so we wanted to celebrate it.
“I got onto Volkswagen in Germany and asked them ‘is there anything you could give us?’
“The guy was very nice. He asked how many Golfs we had coming, and however many we had, he would send that many sausages.
“So I phoned before the show and told him we had 70 and he said ‘not a problem’.
“He told us they were over the moon with (football’s) Tartan Army during the Euros so said if I sent a Scotland shirt and two bottles of whisky, he would send all the sausages and curry sausage sauce.”
The sausages were a hit and sold out almost instantly. German sausage wasn’t the only foreign flavour at the car show, either. The longest travelled award went to a man from Belgium.
“He came over especially for the show, just for the weekend,” John added.
“We had 260 entries that travelled and spent the weekend. We had people from Orkney, Shetland, Stornoway, Galashiels, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester and London.
“We were overwhelmed with the amount of cars and people.”
The show was opened up at 12.30pm on Sunday, August 25, by the interim chief-executive of Moray Council, John W Mundell OBE with the sun shining.
Free entry is provided to everyone at the show - along with a portion of fish and chips. John estimated that Fish and Chips To Go provided 780 fish suppers on the day.
He added: “It was a good day and everyone enjoyed themselves. There are only seven of us in the committee.
“We all got quite emotional at the end because it was a lot of work and it was fantastic. We pride ourselves on being a show for everyone.
“We don't charge people to come in. We do it not-for-profit and hope everyone has a great day.
“We really had a brilliant time and all charity stands did well. It was a brilliant show and brought a lot of revenue to the area. It was heaving.”
John praised Moray Council, who he said were “absolutely brilliant” to work with.
He said that there was “a bit of bad parking on the streets” that will be addressed before next year’s show, which is scheduled for Sunday, August 31.
