Category: VW show
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dubfreeze!
first meet of the year… shopping for greasy parts (or shiny bits..) standing round clutching styrofoam cubs of tea for warmth… must be dubfreeze! we’ll be there trading, chatting, drinking tea and assembling greasy car parts… see you all in stafford !
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more flame and thunder
a damp, rainy bleary start to the day. it’s been drizzling for several hours and the air is so cold it looks not too promising for racing today. It seems that the one meeting tha people thought would be dry is in danger of being a washout just like most of the others this year…
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flame and thunder
it’s the last meeting of the year and it’s a dry fine night on friday. The journey up to the pod across the country is long and gloomy. I feel empty and stressed. It’s been busy getting everything ready for the show at centrespacegallery and there’s too much else going on… i meet up with…
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apres vanfest
well, that was vanfest… friday night get packed and headup to the malvern hills, wreathed in mist and rainclouds. unload the gear and set up the stall inside one of the huge sheds there… due to an administrative cockup (i forgot…) we had to take whatever space there was left tp trade and ended up…
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off to deva dubs and rods show
we’re off for the weekend toi deva dubs and rods showq at chester race course…. i’ve been running around all morning, finished stuff on the website for emma, emmmacaton.com with loads of her new jewellery and sculpture on it, including the incredibly disturbing roedeer foetus sculptures….. trucked down to the printers to checkout the colours…
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more big bang
we all woke to a dry but overcast day.. the track dryers were out hoovering the moisture off the track and all looked promising… all morning to run qualifying and all afternoon to race… off to the startline and into the staging area…..then BANG, it hit me like a steam train… back behind the wheel,…
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big bang 2004
it’s saturday morning at big bang 2004 at santa pod, round 2 of the vwdrc. we arrived and set up pits on friday afternoon after a monster drive, with 5 of us in the split and packed to the roof windows with tools, spares, pit stuff, food and all the stock and stuff for the…
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national finals timing data
just grabbed the timing data from those fine folks at eurodragster for the national finals and here is a breakdown of the best run for the samba. DAN BUZZO? V.W. SPORTSMAN? VW SPORT?97? dial in 15.50? reaction time 1.114?(oh dear, asleep at the lights!) 60ft time 2.077? 330ft time 6.251? 660ft time 9.849? 660ft MPH…
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volksfest london
saturday night and another lonbg drive to hang out in ANOTHER car park for the weekend… this weekend is london volksfest at north weald airstrip, just north of london on the m11. the show is only a sunday thing but i’m travelling down with ollie the night before to set up and hang out with…
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onwards and upwards
enough said!