Robo Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber
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ratty 63 Custom Title Time!
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sleeper Wolfsburg Wizard
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ratty 63 Custom Title Time!
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I know what you are saying, but you have to understand that many people, even within the VW enthusiast community can't tell the difference between an early and a late beetle. We open this show to the general public too, many of which have never seen (or perhaps noticed) some of the less popular VW models (type III's, KG,s, type IV's, etc), so to make the catagories more specific would mean that these people would possibly have more trouble voting for their favourites in each class. This would cause them to consider it to be too hard (to quote Homer Simpson "...if you find that something is too hard, forget about it and find something easier to do"!) - have you been to Dubs by the Pub? They have dozens of catagories (and I don't think that this is a bad thing either), but it take ages to vote for them all. Last year I had many people come to me at DBTP and ask me questions like '...where are the vehicles in this catagory?'. In my own opinion, it took a lot more effort to vote (I didn't mind because I know the differences between the early and late cars and I have an idea what is standard and what is modified). I wonder how many people actually did enter their vote sheets (and then, how many of them were actually completed). I'll state this again - I'm not knocking the way the DBTP is run, its just done differently to our show.sleeper wrote:was a great day indeed....
my only feedbacks would probably to make categories a bit more specifics....as there is a lot more ovals appearing on the show scene (and am not saying that just cause i own one) some restored and some unrestored, i think there should be an oval category, and that goes for every shows everywhere.....and the same applies to kombis, i think there should be a dinstinction beetween microbuses, campers, panelvans.....or am i making it too difficult for the public to choose.....at least they will learn as they go the differences and be cultivated at the end of the show....
my 2 cents
Brad Wolfsburg Elder
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ratty 63 Custom Title Time!
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...funny you should say that - Gunta himself made a similar comment during the photo shoot for the winning vehicles! If we are likely to get a similar number of vehicles next year we may have to split that group up as there was a vast and varied number of styles represented in that class, but for reasons listed above, we are hesitant to do so....Buggy Brad wrote:Joke of the day goes to .......
Runner-up โ Favourite Offroad Vehicle Purple 1984โ Meyers Manx Owned by Gunta
I think you may need to change to name to Kit Car or something Best Offroad is a joke if you are going to award it to a car that sits about 5mm of the ground and scraps on speed humps.
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