[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”4″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”158196″][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_custom_heading uncode_shortcode_id=”126011″]Now we become the \u201cGrand Meeting\u201d[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”726426″]With the designation as a major international gathering \u2013 Grand Meeting \u2013 we, as an organisation team supported by many volunteers, are able to reach even more fans and friends, to describe the diversity of eras, themes and experiential worlds of what once began in 2005 as a slightly crazy idea called Classic Days \u2013 and to open it further for the future and successfully continue it with rich content.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading uncode_shortcode_id=”125031″]How did the name \u201cGrand Meeting\u201d come about?[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”4″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”151630″][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”206032″]Long ago, during the Renaissance, there was the \u201cGrand Tour\u201d (long before the legendary and cult Top Gear sequel). The Grand Tour was the great journey \u2013 an obligatory voyage across Europe and the wider world for young, curious people and for those with style and taste. <\/p>\n
It was something like an educational journey \u2026 often wonderfully described in literature. Culture, customs, sights, impressions, connections with friends, discovering different ways of life, as well as status and prestige \u2013 all of these were the \u201clessons\u201d of the travellers. It was about international exchange and \u2013 as one would say today \u2013 the \u201cget-together\u201d. An early form of an international community, so to speak. <\/p>\n
In this sense, a Grand Meeting is exactly what the historic Grand Tour intended. Only this time, the Grand Meeting is an entire journey in a single place. It is a wonderful exchange, a colourful world, encounters, cultural and automotive \u201cculinary delights\u201d, and education. The club meetings of IGs, classic and youngtimer clubs are just as much a part of it as the gathering of very young fans with their \u201cFast & Furious\u201d cars. <\/p>\n
Is there a perfect place in mind for the big summer get-together in the future? Then it’s the GRAND MEETING.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”277761″]The Classic Days existed for many years \u2013 originally conceived as an idea for Mercedes-Benz Classic’s own brand meeting in 2004 \u2013 with various countries around the world serving as venues. Then Mercedes decided to discontinue the event, and coincidentally, the name and logo \u2018Classic Days\u2019 were also conceived by a few enthusiasts in the Rhineland in 2005 and 2006 as the idea for a large, colourful classic car festival, which was first realised in 2006 as a large classic car meeting. Mercedes-Benz was a partner from the very beginning. Our friends in France were the first to find our festival title attractive and copy it in Magny Cours \u2013 and many others followed suit. <\/p>\n
Classic Days had already become a promise of quality for many with our premiere at the old Dyck moated castle in J\u00fcchen. In Germany and neighbouring countries, there were then many formats with \u2018our title\u2019. None were official \u2013 none were like us. We can say that. <\/p>\n
Many simply copied the idea. Our dear friends around Rudolf Bromberger in Vienna have been organising the Vienna Classic Days for years, a wonderful event that we also enjoy. Rudi was the only one who asked at the time whether the name could also be used for Vienna \u2013 and Rudolf Bromberger was often a participant in our Classic Days at the castle. We refrain from commenting on all the other formats. <\/p>\n
Since the last edition in D\u00fcsseldorf in 2023, the Classic Days have no longer existed as a current or active event under this title. Since 2025, with the return to an old historic and romantic location \u2013 Rittergut Birkhof \u2013 the great classic car gathering and summer party has returned, entirely different from the \u201creal world\u201d \u2013 and with it the new Grand Meeting. A new event with a new concept is taking off. <\/p>\n
Grand Meeting \u2013 The Festival is always scheduled for the first weekend in August.
\nWhoever loves the Classic Days \u2013 loves the Grand Meeting.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”193404″]The organising team of the Grand Meeting loves the many colourful contents and the 15 festival areas. With the Grand Meeting, we open ourselves joyfully and very deliberately to those who are discovering us for the first time, to those who are just getting their driving licence, to those who do not necessarily have to love classic cars \u2013 but who appreciate a very special spirit in a very special place. <\/p>\n
Welcome to the Grand Meeting.
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The 20th anniversary of this magnificent and incomparable festival is not the only milestone approaching for the grand classic car and automotive summer garden party. This popular meeting place \u2014 which we like to call \u201cthe place to be in summer\u201d \u2014 is now becoming even more international. We have always been very British. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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