Convoy To Remember: Military vintage cars in Birmenstorf 🎥
WHERE YOU MEET On the second weekend in August, Birmenstorf in the canton of Aargau will once again become the Mecca of vintage military vehicles. After 2019, the veteran event Convoy to Remember will take place for the ninth time since 1996.
To commemorate the liberation of Europe - the main motivation of the organizers - about 700 participants with their vintage military vehicles and an estimated 20,000 visitors will come to Birmenstorf from August 12 to 14.
Patrouille Suisse and also a dog squadron
The central concern of the event is the commemoration of D-Day, the day of the liberation of Europe. The Swiss Armed Forces are prominently represented, among others with the Patrouille Suisse and the dog squad of the military police.
The focus is not only on D-Day. There will be around 20 historic Swiss Army tanks on a presentation track. The vehicle manufacturer Mowag, now General Dynamics, is present with three wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, while the Military Museum Full presents, in contrast, three vintage wheeled infantry fighting vehicles from the same manufacturer.
Haflinger, Saurer M8 and various floating cars
At the event there will be an exhibition, a spare parts exchange and plenty of entertainment for fans of old military motor vehicles. The focus is on the era between the 1930s and the end of the last century.
The vehicle spectrum ranges from the legendary Haflinger to the four-axle Saurer M8 and from the German Schwimmwagen to the US Weasel airborne tank.
Presentation track for off-road vehicles
The ninth edition of the Convoy to Remember will be held on a new site. The Hardwinkel on Fislisbacherstrasse in Birmenstorf AG is the actual birthplace of the Convoy, as the first meetings took place there in the 1990s.
The traditional convoy parade to the Jura and through the Fricktal is cancelled for traffic reasons. And because there is no longer a gravel pit available, a 600-meter presentation track has been prepared for off-road vehicles.
