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I hoped to see one in a German meeting... An early model with automatic transimission all original, including the (rather) rare front bumper.
Just the wheels need a refresh as they miss the black part (I have 10/12 of them)As far I know it was made on VW Golf chassis, it's extremely rare an almost unknown also here
I really like this meeting/spare parts market, I remember your pics of the previous year too... Too bad it's rather far, but not impossible to reach... Let's see next year
In my plate-collector-forum recently a Western-cars-in-the-DDR-specialist has posted a pic of a white Ritmo, delivered in 1979 directly into the DDR.
This DDR-owned company
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genex
which delivered goods to DDR-citizens, after their West German relatives have paid them in Western money, had good relations to Fiat over all years. So Fiats you could find in every yearly catalogue.
Yes, the Biagini Passo is based on the Golf Cabriolet. Wiki says, that only a few of them were built and only for the West German market. Due the poor quality, especially the missing anti-rust-protection, the cars extinct very quickly.
Yes, this event is my most favourite car-event over the years. It's a combination of spare-parts-market with a classic car meeting (on Saturday drivers with pre-1980 have free entry, on Sunday drivers with pre-1989-cars). The atmosphere is the best, nice relaxed people incl.some freaks among them, good weather -mainly...- and a nice location on the countryside.
You're correct, it's very far away for you. Maybe you have looked on the map. It's in the farest Northwest of Germany, c.30km to the North Sea Coaast and ca.60km to the Dutch part of Frisia.