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Coming up...

Saturday 16th / Sunday 17th

Dragstalgia at Santa Pod

Santa Pod goes back to the way we were with Dragstalgia, a weekend dedicated to drag racing, hot rods and bikes from a bygone era with classic dragsters and funny cars, altereds, hot rods, american muscle and more.

There will be Championship Drag Racing and Run What Ya Brung sessions on the track along with the Fireforce Jet Car and 2 seater Dragster Rides. Off track there will be Show & Shine, Live Music, Traders, Cacklefest, Historic Car Display and much more.

Tickets: Weekend £30 (£25 adv), Day £17 (£14 adv) - under 16s go free.

Friday 22nd - Sunday 24th 

Bug Jam 25, Santa Pod

The original and best VW festival will be back for another year - Bug Jam 25 at Santa Pod Raceway. Drag Racing, RWYB, 4 Music Arenas, show & Shine, Comedy, Traders, Stunt Displays, Jet Car, Autojumble, Funfair and much, much more!

WIN A BUG AT BUG JAM
As part of their 25th birthday celebrations, Bug Jam is giving away a unique Bug Jam branded VW New Beetle. It’s free to enter – just click here!

Tickets: Weekend VW: £50, Weekend non-VW: £65

Friday 29th - Sunday 31st

NSRA Hot Rod Supernationals, Old Warden

UK's largest Hot Rod show

Sunday tickets: Adult: £8, kid 5-16: £4

Lo 'E' Nuf clothing is back!

We're pleased to announce that, after one year off, Lo 'E' Nuf clothing is back. This time Josh is handling it and if you order now it will be delivered at Bug Jam. Same story as before, large club logo on the back and small logo or name on the front left chest. As well as the usual T-shirts and Hoodies, this time there are high quality Premium Hoodies and ladies Fitted T-shirts.

Order deadline is Friday July 8th

To order contact Josh on josh@loenuf.com

All orders must be paid for in advance

"Off the menu" options are available - speak to Josh

Coming up...

This weekend: Mini and VW Car Show at Knebworth House near Stevenage on Bank Holiday Monday.

Two shows in one with the best of British and German engineering with Mini's from 1959 to date and VWs from the oldest Beetle through to the newest Golf. All complete with an arena, commentator, trade stands and autojumble. 

Entrance Price:   Normal Park admission - £8.00 / Family £28.00 - Under 4s free. Includes entry to Fort Knebworth play area and Dinosaur Trail.

The following weekend is Stonor Park VW Show on Sunday June 5th.

All the usual guff: Concours, traders, club stands, Boot sales...

Tickets: £8 - children under 16 go free.

Grounds for dismissal...

Toby disappointed us all on Wednesday evening when he suddenly turned up with this:

He seems to have it in his head that just owning a VW is not enough but that he should "restore" it and "finish" it. Hopefully these crazy notions will never catch on! The big smile on his face said it all though, a happy man and his type 2 freshly on the road.

There's a few small things to be resolved, a sticking Carb and the cab being short of 4 sets of seatbelts being the main points, before it can make it to Bug Jam in July - these should be sorted by the end of the year. Toby hasn't had much chance to drive it yet but the 1776 engine feels strong and should be easily capable of pulling a family of 6 and all their clobber about.

NOT A Body Off Rebuild

Shock, horror, a posting on here that's actually about someone working on their car!

Last year Pollock took his Beetle off the road for a refresh. It needed a few repairs and Pollock was taking the opportunity to stamp his identity onto the car. As with all resto's a few small repairs quickly expanded, a small bit of rot turned into a large hole, old patches welded over rust were blowing through...

Working in a borrowed tent in a borrowed corner of Graham's Graeme's yard at Scotty's Van Centre in Bicester, Pollock dived head first into the deep end.

As remembered...

The reality...

It's now coming along nicely, Pollock has Jimmy the Welder in this week for all the tricky stuff. For the full details head over to Pollock's Build Thread on Volkszone.

Take Me Home

Gaz the FireProof Skratch Duck has recently completed this homage to Phil Collins, complete with cameo appearance by Walter the Variant. Don't worry, it's worth a look!

The original video...

This weekend

A couple of suggestions for this weekend...

Porsche Autojumble, Husborne Crawley
Saturday 14th
Free entry

Chiltern Hills Vintage Vehicle Rally, Aston Clinton
Sunday 15th
Adults £5 - kids go free

Also on Sunday afternoon is the next Stanceworks meeting in Milton Keynes from 12.30pm, followed by a cruz down to the Ace Cafe for The Blitz show and M25 Ring Run in the evening.

Something Else To Dust

Congratulations to Alex for winning the Show N Go trophy at Big Bang this weekend. As Santa Pod put it: "Alex Oakman – 1980 VW Beetle 1200 This home-built Bug scored an almost-perfect 190 points in the “show”, and the 2100cc engine helped it to 13.5 seconds and 132 points in the “go”, giving it a very tough score to beat."

 

Note the carefully cleaned tyres

 Smile!

 Meanwhile Tim's car showed a lot of promise and has Alex nervously looking over his shoulder.

Big Bang Weather

Fresh from the BBC:

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