Number 194 - English version dated 31.08.2021 - © Axel Gerstl |
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The Great Axel Gerstl 2021 Photo Contest / Follow-Up: Fiat 500 World Wide Meeting Dear customers, dear friends of the Fiat 500, Fiat 126 and Fiat 600, Just in time for the end of the summer holidays, it is back:
This year’s photo contest is themed: My favourite 2021 Fiat photo. Click here to learn how you can participate in our contest and get the opportunity to win one of the many prizes. Due to the Corona pandemic, the legendary Fiat 500 meeting of the Fiat 500 Club Italia in Garlenda had been cancelled completely in 2020, but in 2021, it took place again in a new format, this time called Fiat 500 World Wide Meeting – spread over five continents and 22 countries and supported by Axel Gerstl as one of the main sponsors. Axel Gerstl was represented by our staff members and “brand ambassadors” Amsycora and Andreas who were directly on site on the first weekend in July and witnessed the three-day event with its online live supporting programme. Click here to read how our two colleagues experienced this event which was, according to the Fiat 500 Club Italia, “the biggest party ever thrown for a car.” As part of the World Wide Meeting, the little Fiat 500 was duly celebrated even in New Zealand. Our friends Alfonso Zambuto and Todd Niall were kind enough to send us photos and share their impressions. Click here to read how they experienced the “1st World Fiat 500 Day” in their home country on the other side of the planet. And of course, we are also proud to present the “Fiat of the Month August”, along with some interesting current offers and news concerning the Fiat 500, Fiat 126 and Fiat 600. We hope you enjoy reading this month's newsletter! Your Axel Gerstl team |
> Photo contest 2021 |
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The Traditional International Axel Gerstl 2021 Photo Contest! The motto of this year’s international photo contest is: Send us your best Fiat 500, Fiat 126, Fiat 600 or Fiat Topolino photo! The closing date is October 24, 2021. All you have to do is observe our terms of participation! Send us your photo and we will publish it on our homepage and invite all Fiat 500, Fiat 126 and Fiat 600 enthusiasts to vote for their favorite photo! And with a little luck and the right amount of votes, you may be among the winners and receive one of our several great prizes! Please note: You must be the rightful owner of the photo. By entering the contest, you accept the terms of participation and agree to grant Axel Gerstl the limited right to publish the photo freely in our newsletter and on our website. How can I participate? Please click here! The Axel Gerstl Team looks forward to your participation and wishes you all the best of luck! P.S.: Here on the left, you find some examples of what your contribution might look like! |
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> Follow-Up: The 1st Fiat 500 World Wide Meeting – July 2-4, 2021 |
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Second day On Saturday, the next day of the Fiat 500 World Wide Meeting in Garlenda, the first real live broadcast started. Amsycora and Andreas were allowed to remain behind the scenes, but only had short personal talks with the people in charge, as they didn't want to disrupt ongoing operations. A little later, the meeting of the Albenga Club / Coordinamento della Riviera delle Palme took place, for which the two had already confirmed their participation in advance. Their holiday flat, actually only meant as a place to sleep, unexpectedly turned out to be a stroke of luck: From their balcony, they could watch the club’s joyride passing along below and allowing them to take lovely photos and video (see video 1, video 2 and video 3). The meeting and the joyride were also accompanied and filmed by a professional film team actually working on a travel report. Without further ado, Amsycora and Andreas offered the camera folks to come up to their balcony for filming – which was gladly accepted and earned them a big thank-you from Domenico as well. In turn, Andreas was allowed to accompany Marco, a former president of the Fiat 500 Club Italia, to Laigueglia in his Fiat 500 (see video 4, video 5, video 6, video 7, and video 8. Amsycora was given a lift in the Fiat of another participant of the trip. In Laigueglia, the Fiat 500s were parked in a row along the pier and the participants could move on to the culinary programme of the day. After a nice evening with lots of conversation and a glass or two of white wine, a member of the club staff took Andreas back to the Centro Storico of Albenga shortly before midnight – Amsycora had already returned there after the joyride. Andreas would like to take the opportunity to express a big thank-you for this overwhelming hospitality! |
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Third day The third and final day of the Fiat 500 World Wide Meeting began with a big surprise: Our dear friend Davide Cappadonna and his wife Melinda greeted them and the Axel Gerstl company in a short Instagram video (click here to see it!). Andreas was delighted about his “warm and joyous greetings”. Of course, Amsycora and Andreas were more than happy with the course of things and already looking forward to the meeting of the Cervo Ligure club (Club 500 Riviera dei Fiori), which included, besides another joyride (see video 9), a cultural programme. “When Francesco, the club leader, pointed out that the trips he organised were meant to offer more than a ride to get a four-hour-long meal, we fully agreed,” Andreas said. “Especially Elisa's guided tour of the town was inspiring and full of interesting facts.” At 6 pm, Amsycora and Andreas returned to Garlenda. They had been invited as official representatives of the Axel Gerstl company to the reception celebrating the “1st World Fiat 500 Day” under the patronage of the Italian Minister of Culture (we had reported on the preliminaries in our Newsletter 192). “Unfortunately, a coming together of a large crowd could not be realised here either,” Andreas told us. “But a few selected guests were able to watch the live broadcast on appropriately marked seats in the hall of the museum.” Amsycora was allowed to briefly take the microphone and deliver greetings from the Axel Gerstl company to the audience (see video 10) who, in turn, celebrated exuberantly for a long time afterwards and serenaded the little Fiat 500 on its birthday and anniversary (see video 11). “We were invited to a small square for an aperitivo,” Andreas said. “We were about to leave, when Marco Pastorelli from the Meeting Internationale staff approached us to say that he recently had, for the first time, taken a closer look at our website and really liked it. He regretted not having done so earlier as, otherwise, he wouldn’t have placed his last order with another dealer.” So a longer conversation ensued and Amsycora and Andreas were treated again to delicacies from the buffet by Marco's caring mother. Our two representatives had a final sense of achievement that rounded off their successful trip to the 1st Fiat 500 World Wide Meeting: Shortly before the birthday cake of the little Fiat 500 was cut, Andreas managed to make his way to the front row and take a photo. |
> The Fiat 500 World Wide Meeting in New Zealand |
Todd Niall and Alfonso Zambuto
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“Garlenda” in New Zealand! The 1st Fiat 500 World Wide Meeting was duly celebrated: not only in the northern hemisphere, but also on the other side of the planet in New Zealand, as our friends Alfonso Zambuto and Todd Niall told us. “Sunday was a great day,” Alfonso said. Todd spontaneously invited people via Facebook for a “quick coffee” in the pizzeria of a friend, also a proud Fiat 500 owner. From there, they continued (see video) in a Fiat 500 convoy to Auckland Domain, a 75-hectare park in the centre of Auckland, with the Auckland War Memorial Museum at its heart. “We managed to stop and take a photo,” Alfonso told us. “Then we went off to the park for a picnic – what a great day!” Most of the Fiat 500s present at the Auckland meeting were models that had been assembled in New Zealand, only a few had been imported by private persons in a fully assembled state (to get hold of Todd's book on the history of the Fiat 500 in New Zealand, click here). “One guy drove all the way from Wellington and back for our meeting,” Todd told us in perfect German. “750 km either way – crazy!” Unlike the spontaneous meeting in Auckland, the event in Christchurch had had a longer lead time, Todd told us. They had registered in Garlenda and had planned a weekend programme in advance. But the spontaneous meeting in Auckland had also clearly been fun for everybody and Todd expressed a pious hope: “I hope this worldwide thing will be repeated, even if Covid-19 is gone one day!” |
> Photo Album: Fiat of the Month August |
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Fiat of the Month August If you want to present your Fiat 500, Fiat 126 or Fiat 600 to our readers, please send a photo to service. 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. Click here to find the previous“Fiats of the month”. |
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