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On Sunday 19th May the London & Thames Valley VW (LTV – VWC) club will be staging their 10th annual one-day Volkswagen show. It’s open to all Volkswagen and classic car fans and is a great day out for the whole family.
Last year the show had to be cancelled due to bad weather – so this year the show is back with even more fantastic Volkswagens on display, more live music and even more children’s entertainment. It’s one of the most-friendly and laid-back classic car shows of the VW calendar and attracts a record number of vehicles, previous years have seen around 2500 people in attendance and we hope this year will be no exception – weather permitting!
BACK WITH MODS 14th – 16th June 2013 Santa Pod Raceway • NN29 7XA www.backwithmods.com
A new event Back With Mods, Scooter & Ska Fest hosted in conjunction with Misdemeanours SC, will have all the traditional aspects of a scooter rally plus a lot more – all in a mainland central venue – Santa Pod Raceway in Northants. Camping on site is included in the ticket price of £35 in advance or £45 Gate.
There’s a Scooter Show & Shine – free to enter with judging and marshalling by our friends from Area 51 SC and Trojan Horses SC.
Doughboys SC lead the 8 mile ride out starting off from the drag strip to Grendon Lakes Club House.
Over the weekend take your own scooter down the track, £25 for unlimited runs – bring you driving licence. Read the rest of this story…
Do you own any type of Transporter or air-cooled VW and fancy a trip to the beach this summer? Then this must-do event is for you!
Join us at our overnight camp at Guildford on the Saturday night (June 22)and you’ll wake on Sunday morning to the smell of free bacon butties. You will then take your place in the line-up for the cruise to Bournemouth. On arrival you’ll be directed to your parking place on the seafront with your front wheels almost kissing the sand. Music and children’s entertainment will be supplied for your enjoyment, so why not take in the sun, visit the town and have a picnic on the beach, relax and chill.
Just pay one price for your VW and all occupant’s go free. A proportion of the run fee will go to our nominated charity, Brad’s Cancer Foundation so you’ll be doing something worthwhile whilst having fun.
• One nights camping in Guildford • Goody bag worth £20.00 • Commemorative T-shirt • Run plaque • Bacon buttie at the start • Free entertainment on Bournemouth Seafront. • Reserved parking space within show. • Mechanical back up
The VW Camper&Bus Show & Cruise – A great day out at the beach…
Big Bang is nearly here and with the track looking better than ever as well as a great line up of live music, show and shine, RWYB and more it is set to be an amazing weekend.
Big Bang VW festival in conjunction with Volksworld Camper and Bus magazine is the first and friendliest VW festival on the calendar. Despite high-octane racing and two music arenas, the festival remains as laid-back and family friendly as ever. All Vee Dubs welcome!
Three days of VW themed fun with great racing, music and entertainment at the home of European Drag Racing! All Beetles and buses, campers and Caddies, Golfs and Ghias are welcome at the show to enjoy the Run What Ya Brung (New for 2013 RWYB open to all VAG vehicles), Show & Shine, Drag Racing or simply filling the camp sites with VWs and chilling out.
Get your discounted tickets by 5:00pm on Friday April 19th, print them at home and save £s! Call the Box Office direct on (01234) 782828 or Book Online via the Santa Pod Ticket Shop. Tickets bought after Friday 19th will be at the standard price with the “print at home” option only. Read the rest of this story…
VZi Members – Discount
The Crew at Cool Flo Vintage are offering a special 10% discount for VZi members on any online purchase of £10.00 or more (exc. P&P). Check out the ranges of VW and BMX inspired tees, quality hoodies and essentials like The Bus DVD and trucker-style caps on www.coolflovintage.com.
To claim your discount, all you need to do is enter VZi10 into the ‘Apply Coupon’ box on the Cart/Checkout page.
The discount code is valid until midnight on Friday 7th June 2013. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other Cool Flo Vintage online discount codes. Any queries should be sent to the team on info@coolflovintage.com
The VolksWorld Show 23-24 March 2013 Sandown Park Esher Surrey
What’s on at VolksWorld 2013…
The annual pilgrimage to Sandown Park in Esher is nearly upon us, and have we got some fantastic attractions in store for you?
2013 is a landmark year as it’s 60 years since official sales of the VW began in the UK. And, we’ve got one of the first and one of the last air-cooled Beetles on display.
We’re also hosting a very special display of VW based coach-builts and the cars we’ve gathered together are among some of the most desirable air-cooled Volkswagens on the planet. The stunning Rometsch sport coupe we’ve got booked in is coming all the way from Germany and has never been seen in this country before, so don’t miss your chance to see it in the flesh. How about the highly desirable Hebmüller coming all the way from Germany too? Read the rest of this story…
The Season Opener
Sunday 14th April 2013
Santa Pod Raceway
Wellingborough
Northants NN29 7XA www.vwaction.com/gtispring
The GTI Spring Festival is now established as the real ‘season opener’, and THE one day show for all enthusiasts of all VAG marques, SEAT, Skoda, Audi and of course Volkswagen – both watercooled and aircooled. And now the Volkswagen Group includes Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti too! Springfest, is a show where all VAG vehicles are welcome with open arms. All clubs are invited to display during the day, and after a very well received revamp of the show layout, the clubs area is now able to accommodate in excess of the 40 clubs who regularly attend the event. If you want your club to be part of the show, you need to act fast. The earliest club bookings get pride of place, and we expect to see a huge number of clubs and registers represented, so please get in early! To book club displays call 01279 725252 or email: nasevents@orange.fr
Show & Shine
The GTI Spring Festival Show & Shine has a massive number of awards including Best Audi, Best Skoda, Best SEAT, and Best VW, Best Engineering, Best Paint, Best Engine, Best Van and many more. There are also ‘top twenty’ trophies covering all the marques, and full details are available via the SPRINGfest ‘Show & Shine’ link.
BIG BANG inc. CAMPER & BUS SHOW (VWDRC ROUND) Santa Pod Raceway, Wellingborough, Northants. NN29 7XA 01234 782828 or info@santapod.com www.big-bang.co.uk
Santa Pod Presents The Big Bang Camper & Bus Show 2013. The Show your VW was invented For!
Santa Pod’s Big Bang show always kicks the outdoor VW show season off in style and this year, The Pod has turned everything up to ‘11’ to create one of the most astounding line-ups to date! This year’s show runs from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th April.
As you might expect, quarter mile action features heavily in proceedings with RWYB running on Saturday and Sunday to allow you to shake your own VW down to a tarmac terrorising time on Europe’s best drag strip… or not, as the case may be. The pros will also be on hand to show us all how it’s done, with the VWDRC classes of VW Pro and VW Sportsman blasting the track, plus the hot rods of Outlaw Anglia, along with 8.50 Bike, 9.50 Bike, Sportsman ET, The Jap Drag Series, Junior Dragster and Junior Drag Bike! Enough race machinery for you?
Many of the UK’s finest show VWs debut at Big Bang, so expect to see some perfectly-prepared examples competing for trophy honours, as well as some of the shabbiest – looking to take the ‘Rust and Rat’ title. Volksworld magazine will also be seeking the best ‘Show and Go’ cars that balance that perfect combination of show-stopping looks with clock-stopping speed. If you have built yourself a true Old School, twin-40’d ‘Looker, then make sure you line up for this one!
Music is a big part of any ‘dubber’s life, so Big Bang has pulled out all the stops to keep guests rocking into the wee smalls. A full line-up of brilliant party tunes and serious live music across two arenas mean that whatever floats your boat, there’s bound to be something to make you boogie at Big Bang, including live bands and DJs. The Fool Fighters, First Rate and Now & Then, plus The Greatest Take That Tribute mean there’s no excuse for not getting down! Read the rest of this story…
Those of you who can remember the mid-1980’s will of course remember ‘Live Aid’, the charity concert which had some of the top bands in the world at the time coming together to raise money for African famine victims.
Those of you in the Volkswagen scene who can remember 2011 should also remember the first ‘Dub Aid’, nowhere near on the same scale as ‘Live Aid’ but a similar idea, putting on a VW show with great live music to raise money for charity.
The idea came about from a simple discussion thread on Volkszone.com where an idea was banded about to have a charity cruise to show support for the troops repatriating from overseas conflicts to the town of Royal Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.
Within a few months a team of volunteers had put together not just a cruise but a whole weekend of entertainment, camping, a show and shine and much more, all set in the grounds of Castle Combe Race Circuit near Chippenham.
The event was a huge success with over £9,000 raised which was donated to several charities but the main beneficiary was Help For Heroes.
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