When the Essen Motor Show opens its doors, car-, motorsports- and tuning fans come running. Five hundred exhibitors present the latest in automobile trends. There is a lot of horsepower on show, and plenty of curiosities as well. A Bosnian pensioner spent a year and a half building a wooden VW Beetle. Momir Bojic stuck 20,000 pieces of oak onto the sanded metal bodywork of a 1975 model Bug.

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