Newsletter 128

Number 128 - dated 29.10.2015 - © Axel Gerstl

The results of the picture contest 2015!

Dear customers, dear Fiat 500, Fiat 126 and Fiat 600-friends,

the votes are computated and the winners are determined. With this newsletter we present the Top Ten of the Big Axel Gerstl Picture Contest 2015!

We’d like to thank all participants for sending pictures under the motto "My Fiat at full speed! ”. Also we’d like to thank everybody for participating the voting.

We'd also like to present the Axel Gerstl Fiat Calendar 2016. For more infos please klick here.

Furthermore we report about Luca and Andrea Bonventre’s extraordinary journey in a Fiat 500 from Torino to Japan, which began in the summer of this year and will continue into next spring. Why the two of them started this big challenge and what they want to achieve, you can read here.

Of course there's a "Fiat Of The Month October" as well as many interesting offers and new articles for the Fiat 500, the Fiat 126 and the Fiat 600.

Have fun reading!

The Axel Gerstl Team

> Final results of the picture contest 2015

Congratulations to all the winners!

1st place: Markus Hiermeier, Germany; with 12,98% of the votes

2nd place: Marco Mascia, Italy; with 9,98% of the votes

3rd place: Detlef Weiss, Germany; with 7,10% of the votes

4th place: Nadav Kampf, Israel; with 5,48% of the votes

5th place: Pascal Ledervouet, France; with 4,66% of the votes

6th place: Werner Hertel, Germany; with 3,68% of the votes

7th place: Dirk Hennigs, Germany; with 3,45% of the votes

8th place: Andrea Fedele, Germany; with 3,25% of the votes

9th place: Thomas Wolpert, Germany; with 3,04% of the votes

10th place: Tobi Brenner, Germany; with 2,83% of the votes

Every winner will be contacted by us within the next few days. Many thanks to all the participants!

> From Italy to Japan in a Fiat 500

A Fiat 500, two young activists and millions of (children's) dreams

That many Fiat 500 drivers have compassion for the needs of the little ones, the poor and the weak, is not a big secret. Whoever drives a classic Fiat 500 rather than a swanky horsepower monster has his heart in the right place. But dropping everything and leaving, only to go in favor of a charitable purpose for a longer-month journey into the unknown, is certainly something very special, even for a Fiat 500 driver.

The two cousins Luca Bonventre (31) and Andrea Bonventre (27) do just that, and therefore they deserve our particular attention and our greatest respect for their project. Finally, both want to prove with their Fiat 500 that also in our day and age dreams are still possible and with their project "A 500. Millions of dreams" they want to participate to fulfill dreams and to conjure a smile on the face of needy children.

Luca and Andrea are cousins; both travel enthusiastically and are convinced Fiat 500 fans. Like the Fiat 500 more than 50 years ago, their project arose from a dream. In the beginning there was this jocular question of how far one probably could go on the streets of the world with a Fiat 500. Would a trip from Italy to Tokyo / Japan without prolonged interruption be possible? But from the joke it quickly became serious and the plan came up to turn the idea into an adventure.

During this time, Luca and Andrea met Forma Onlus. This is an apolitical and religiously neutral association of families, founded in 2005 with the aim to support the Children's Hospital Regina Margherita in Turin. Because Lucas girlfriend, who sadly passed away much too early in 2013, shortly after her 30th birthday, was working as a kindergarten teacher at the Moby Dick kindergarten in Turin, they took the decision to devote to the planned trip to Tokyo to her major concern to help children in need.Luca and Andrea therefore decided to collect donations for Forma Onlus with the aim to reach the amount of 78,000 euros. This money is intended to enable Forma Onlus and the Children's Hospital to acquire much-needed new medical equipment to make the children stay in hospital more pleasant and to improve their quality of life through fun and games.

During her tour Luca and Andrea want to visit foundations and social organizations working primarily for the welfare and health of children. In addition, they have imagined gathering pictures and drawings of children showing their own personal dreams of the future. The pictures will then be presented on their homepage, to enable visitors to see the world from child's eyes.

The whole Axel Gerstl Team have all fingers crossed that Luca and Andrea have the desired success with their project. The company Axel Gerstl will of course play its part to the success and support the two Fiat 500 drivers with their project. If you also would like to participate in the fundraiser, please visit www.berevolution.it for all the information as well as photos and video reports about the trip and the bank account data for donations. Of course we will keep you up to date with our newsletter and on Facebook.

All pictures copyright: beRevolution

> Axel Gerstl Fiat Calendar 2016

Just arrived!

The Axel Gerstl calendar 2015!

The Axel Gerstl calendar is the perfect companion through the year 2015 for every Fiat fan and also a nice eye-catcher for every garage or hobby shop! Let yourself be inspired by the 12 creative and interesting motives of the photographers! (DIN A3 landscape format, 420 x 297 mm, metal spiral)

Order now at an unbeatable price of 8,90 Euro item no.: ZD120

> Photo Album: Fiat of the Month October

Fiat of the month October

The Fiat of the month Oktober has been elected! Many thanks to Mr. Christian Kratky from Austria and all other participants!

If you want to present your Fiat 500, Fiat 126 or Fiat 600 to our readers, please send a photo to myfiat@fiat500126.com. There’s no special motto, no limitation. And if you’re lucky, your Fiat will become Fiat of the month!

To all previous participants: Your photo is still active and can still become Fiat of the Month in the next months.