:vader Hello all, long time no post!
Went to the nationals today....some damn nice cars there. I got to meet a few aussie vee dubbers and had a great time.
I also met up with Mike Sharp and collected my new webbers and cam that he imported from the states which will be going in my new Sharpbuilt GS Limo LWB Buggy. I am also selling my house and moving to the sunshine coast in Qld. so I hope to meet up with some Queensland buggers. That's all from me........bye for now.

Well I hope you forum people had a great day at the VW Nats.

Like to hear your comments... both good n bad thoughts...

I think I counted around 50 or more members there any other counts.???

Who won a Trophy ??? I know i did with both cars and Speedster356 did also ??? any others.

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Was good show. Was there saturday night helping beach buggy oz set up thier stand. Had chance to meet a few peeps that were around. Found out some more gen on my bug.
Sunday was good saw some really great cars. Have lots of ideas for the future now. Things i will implementing on my oval rebuild and changes make to my current daily driver..................

Well done club vw was a great show.
Just like to say thnankyou....................
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it was really good, I have never been before & the whole thing was REALLY wll organised, met lots & lots od Aussieveedubbers bought a few bits of peices & was able to lok at ots & lots of cars, all without getting wet - looking forward to next year :bounce

Hey Bugboymatt how were the Pizzas
U should have introd yrself... ???

Well Kombi Kim, You will have to make sure You go to Nambucca heads on the 1st weekend in August for the BIGGEST VW Spectacular YOU have ever seen... Its AWESOME.. Imagine a Main street of a town just FULL of Volkswagens for over an Hour , on a Saturday Morning. If You thought the Nationals were great (and I'm NOT knocking the yearly VW Nationals event) the Nambucca - Valla Park - VW Spectacular is -"different-" a weekend or 3 or 4 day venue in a small town is just "UNREAL"- there are VWs EVERYWHERE You Look... Most People make it a FAMILY weekend or more ... I'm going up on Friday and coming home Monday... Hopefully in My "NEWLY" Restored 68AutoBug .. It JUST HAS to be Finished by then.... and registered...

hehe great to meet some of u guys too! Some very nice cars there

Great day met a few VDFPs. Really great show i walked around and around and around suddenly realised that 4 hours had dissapeared and i still wanted another round.
Congratulations to Dave and all those others involved .
Great turn out for a poor weather day great venue especially for that reason.
The thought that had gone into the kids was fantasic I will bring the gromets next year ,those kids painting the bugs were having a ball.
That for sale 13 window just inside the car park gate (and a couple of others parked in there) should have been inside. Any one know what sort of money for that thing? I can only dream.
Mitchell:thumb:thumb.

Totally unreal show.

I'm just sorry I didn't have my Baja there.
The name tags are great I'm going to put it with the name sticker Bronze made for the Forum last year.

So why didnt you say HIGH ??

I new i should have warned Boris

So did you have to wait long at the traffic lights

Dave do Club VD mebers get free entry to the Nats ? I was wondering cause it might work well (or it might not) for you guys to package the two so that at the gate you may attract more memberships as people are forking out they might dig a little deeper and spring for membershipp as well. Just a thought.
BTW I think the $10 is pretty good value.
Mitchell .

Excellent day guys

So good to meet up with some of you

Adz where were you? Asking people if you were there. We were probably passing each other and didn't know it.

Jay and Amazer thought that they had lost me only because I didn't know about the 1st turbo circuit of the swap stalls. Somehow I got staight into looking closely at stuff for sale

Due to the lack of sleep the night before I kept moving all day, didn't want to crash:sandrine

toybug was very pleased with the vent windows I got for his kombi's front doors:thumb

Took lots of pics, now have to have them put on disc. Some very nice Vee Dubbs there

Congrats to the winners of trophies, so much work had gone into the cars

So glad I made it up to Sydney if only for the day

I was so busy trying to catch up with all I knew and meet those from this forum that I missed some of the good cars, Glad that some of the pics on this forum showed me.
It was a great day, for me more the people , the cars were excellent.
There were exceptional ones, like Leigh's car , very inspirational, the V8 LPG stretch Bus "just a tow car for the drag Bug ".
got to hear my favourite sound - Roaring supercharged VW motor.
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My children had great fun " face painting, model making , colouring , jumping castle " which left more time for me to talk...Great.

Adam , I would have liked to chat with you too.
The guys in swap meet were Aussie Black Bug and either Flying VW or Bugboy.
the cool dudes the boozed me up Sat night.............

Hey Adz

Apparently Jay and Amazer got worried about me there at one stage when we got seperated. Somehow lost sight of each other. Mind you Jay and I were half asleep and in automatic mode. We did intend to power nap on the plane but forgot and talked all the way.

I was in black jeans and denim jacket or lacy top (depending on what time of day, it got warm) Had two bags (one daypack, 1 duffle bag) and one camera over my shoulders.

Lost my name tag about 5 times during the day and had to keep retracing my steps to find it:jesus

Mmm, a ladyfriend hey

Was at both meetings up of the AussieVeeDubbers

and it had better be next time else it will give me an excuse to cruise down to Bargo to check out your ride.
I was near Mikes stand of course and at Stans ( next door ) probably more ( trying to learn the latest ) ha ha.
I just keep seeing my future finances going into better engine bits.

Hmmm, not sure about the lass but it would have been me

Catch you next time I hope

Night

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i had a good time at the nationals ,thanks dave for letting me stay on saturday ansd well desrrved trophies,it was good to meet some of the guys and girls on the forum ,where were you mitty ,did you see my great bomb baja ,made it from albury and back even went back through the snowy mountains ,top down all the way

what about this daily driver hey dave

limo anybody

mmmmm

definately loved this steve

i could go on

Hi

Thanks to everyone who attended, VW shows would not happen without VW people building cars and turning up to VW shows. VW owners are mostly fantastic people, unlike fans of some other car makes.

Nice to meet you bugboymatt, in case anyone didn't hear bugboymatt has bought a bug with a reputation, its Adam "Hamo" Hamiltons old 1500 bug.

It was great meeting everyone, I was busy every time a meeting was called. Hopefully we can get together at Nambucca. The thing I like about Nambucca is that I don't have to worry about anything other than having a good time, anyone who has anything to do with organising a VW show would share my sentiments.

I'm uploading photos now to the Club VeeDub site, I fell asleep at the keyboard Sunday night, I was up at 5 am Sunday after getting home at midnight Saturday night. I still have a heap more photos to load in the next few days so keep checking back.

I dont know what can be done about all the good cars in the car park, its a problem at all VW shows.

David, I didn't enter my car because I didn't have time to prepare it properly.

1302Steve

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David was that your Baja with the bumper in it ?

He had it and more by the end of the day:o

Last time I saw David he was reorganising the load:sandrine

The Baja looks great.
Could you post more pics of it?.
Is it in Members rides ?

jenz, that reminds me , I lost my nametag about midday & couldn't find it again, so if after midday anybody called Kombikim was dancing naked on Kombi roofs or slippery dipping down beetle bonnets or otherfun things let me know, & I may deny all knowledge