VW Breakout - Santa Pod

[shin2chin]

Good showing this weekend at Santa Pod. My 1st show in the Beetle and the sun is shining, living the dream.
Myself and Bobbi set of in the Beetle and my wife Annya and Travis left a little later in her 5 series Touring.
It's only 14 miles from us but the longest trip in the bug so far so I packed prepared but it drove faultlessly.







We watched some amazing cars going down the strip including a couple of jet cars, 294 mph!



Had a good wander down the pits and saw some dream builds for me.











































I really need to build a bigger engine for my Bug. Anyway we finished with a look around the edge of the camping area and saw some nice shiny cars (too shiny for me tho)



























All in a good day out, kids loved it and my wife has a new found love of jet dragster and wants the red splitty that did 110 down the strip.

[HoTWire]

Great stuff. Good to get out and see some cars.

I'll take the German Look no sloper

[johnthesparky]

Do you mind if I add photos to this thread too?



And did see your bug, looking good

[shin2chin]

Sept 5, 2020 18:54:38 GMT johnthesparky said:

Do you mind if I add photos to this thread too?



And did see your bug, looking good

Cheers John, let's see those photos

[johnthesparky]

I took some photos on my phone, Tom did lying down with a proper digital camera....

Few from yesterday, and today was show and shine.... apologies it’s pretty VW heavy,
Here are mine;

[johnthesparky]

I missed getting a photo of this, and then the wheel fell off (I think) and I managed to get a photo




This polo was on the strip on Saturday, really struggled getting grip







And chatted to the guys with this bug



He’d run an 11.3 on Saturday, and then this morning killed it with nitrous
Nitrous was supposed to cut at 7200
Rev limiter set to 7400, and the data suggests that nitrous was still on at 7600, so thinks revs cut with nitrous and pre-ignition blew a hole in the head!







And the rest




















































And zeberdee airride




I’ll post some of Toms later, when he’s downloaded etc

[johnthesparky]

A few from Tom

[zeberdee]

shin2chin had a quick snoop around your Bug on Saturday , looks really good in the flesh .

johnthesparky , goid to see you & Tom again , I’m gonna nick Tom’s picture .
He’s definitely getting a nice style of photography .

Think RWD MK1 Passat was a highlight for me , very neatly done .

[tonycocacola]

Thanks to all for some cracking pics.
I miss owning an air cooled Dub, one day I may be able to own another.
And, I agree, young Tom is getting quite good at nice shots.

😀

[shin2chin]

Some great pictures there. Shuvarda bus is a guy from Volksworld and I clocked that 356 on the way out on Saturday.
Really inspired to build a big engine for bug now!

[rainking]

Sept 6, 2020 17:50:24 GMT zeberdee said:

Think RWD MK1 Passat was a highlight for me , very neatly done .

That's a super cool thing... and properly quick... Rob ran down to 10.03 at the weekend, and there is more in it apparently...

I spent a while chatting to them at VWDRC Drag Days at the beginning of August...

It was originally supposed to have a V8 up front... but then the Cossie motor happened....

[johnthesparky]

Did get an engine bay shot at the end

[Deleted]

Great shots everyone.
A real flavour of the weekend.
My 1st car was an Oval but I never did get it road legal.
I'd love a bug again someday.

[disastra98]

Anyone have any info on this van? It's the same as Scalextric latest release and I found it strange it has American details on the doors then has a British number plate on the back.Who knows maybe this is the very van it has been modelled on. Didn't expect to see a real one and certainly not in the UK.  
Cheers.

[johnthesparky]

We saw it whilst wandering around the camping field, thought it was cool and took the photo, can’t see the number plate

So, sorry can’t give any more info... it is a bit intriguing though

[joem83]

Seems it's not a coincidence