Posted 19. April 2018.
In 2016 Danish retro car enthusiasts reinvented the old Fanø Motor Festival, but now on Rømø. Both islands lie in the North Sea in the southern part of Denmark. The festival takes place on the first weekend of September. If you are Danish or live close to Denmark, you should obviously go there.
A dam connects Rømø to the mainland, so it is easy to go there by car. But when 30-40.000 people want to go there in one day, the dam will be a bottleneck, and the traffic will drive slowly. To avoid queues, you have to arrive early in the morning and leave early in the afternoon. Otherwise, you can be stuck for up to 2 hours.

The race track is about two hundred meters long, and as the day progresses the track at the starting line becomes very rough, and especially the motorcycles have problems.
The cars and the motorcycles must be from before ww2. They compete car to car and motorcycle to motorcycle. It is not a question of winning but more of participating. All participants must dress up like in the thirties or forties – and so do a big part of the spectators. The race day is full of action on the beach.
By the way, people who play roles are easy to photograph. The possibility for brilliant photographs is high. I have tried to achieve the style of early color film.
There are a lot of comfort and inventions that young people today take for granted, but the story of mechanical inventions is exciting to learn and understand from.
You can also see a slide show on my YouTube page, where I have sepia toned the images and the slide show is with sound – old blues music.
More images from RMF on my gallery page.
Rømø Motor Festival homepage.