Photo: European Pressphoto Agency
When you say Christmas in Germany the first thing you think of could be sweets. And we’re talking about the kingdom of sugar, a place where you find everything from small candies and chocolate bars to complex cakes filled with marzipan and cinnamon. It is also the home country of Volkswagen.
The brainchild of this real size gingerbread Volkswagen bus is Rudi Dietl, a car dealer from Hanover, Germany, who thought creating the famous bus replica would make for the perfect winter gift any vintage car lover could wish for. Or sugar-addict for that matter. And it might look like a toy Santa would like to pose next to, but you should know it was not really that easy to make.
Dietl joined forces with local carpenter Helmut Buchner who first built a Beetle model using laminated wood and bent plywood faithful copy. This part only lasted for about 150 hours. Then, the sugar-team came in to fill up the gaps with the proper ingredients. Bakers used around 280 kilograms of dough which they turned into about 45 square meters of gingerbread pieces.
Using hot chocolate, a 14-people team would then glue the parts onto the wooden model, fixing the gingerbread addition with ice spray. The last part was painting the Christmas Buggie with colored white-red chocolate. Add about 8 liters of red organic color and the gingerbread was ready for show off.
The car was auctioned for charity and bought by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. The proceeds are going towards children with cancer, but the gingerbread car will still remain uneaten. In fact, the cookie-Bug will rest as Christmas decorations in the classic car workshop of the commercial vehicle plant Hanover it will be relocated in a day care center.
Dietl joined forces with local carpenter Helmut Buchner who first built a Beetle model using laminated wood and bent plywood faithful copy. This part only lasted for about 150 hours. Then, the sugar-team came in to fill up the gaps with the proper ingredients. Bakers used around 280 kilograms of dough which they turned into about 45 square meters of gingerbread pieces.
Using hot chocolate, a 14-people team would then glue the parts onto the wooden model, fixing the gingerbread addition with ice spray. The last part was painting the Christmas Buggie with colored white-red chocolate. Add about 8 liters of red organic color and the gingerbread was ready for show off.
The car was auctioned for charity and bought by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. The proceeds are going towards children with cancer, but the gingerbread car will still remain uneaten. In fact, the cookie-Bug will rest as Christmas decorations in the classic car workshop of the commercial vehicle plant Hanover it will be relocated in a day care center.
Google News