Well completed my first Valla. Tired and grumpy when home but a good night sleep will fix the alcohol consumed.

Thanks to all of those people that organise this event, I had a blast. I can see why it has gone so many years.

Also it was great to put names to faces and meet many of the people I chat with on this site.

Ohh and how was that weather

Cheers, Andrew

Your game , fancy teasing us with a few words AND NO BLOODY PHOTOS

Here's a couple of pics....I'll keep adding them later.

http://www.manxgallery.org/gallery/album587 

Love the red and black baja!!
Simon

Ok Me N the Missus + grots were 1st timers and we had a blast except for the bloody kids whinging nearer to the end of the day. Just kids, oh and the end straw for me was when the youngest 2 and a bit went walkabout at the end of the day went AWOL for 15 minutes looking for him and that did it for me Right everyone in the Kombi's.
Apart from that we will all be back better prepared next time.

Oh yeh none of the atached pics are my cars just rather a snapshot of others i have many more.

my 2nd youngest standing near the red/black baja.

Never seen so many Dubs in 1 place. friggin awesome.

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Originally posted by GTMac Well completed my first Valla. Tired and grumpy when home but a good night sleep will fix the alcohol consumed. Thanks to all of those people that organise this event, I had a blast. I can see why it has gone so many years. Also it was great to put names to faces and meet many of the people I chat with on this site. Ohh and how was that weather Cheers, Andrew

Cricky, that Heltoy likes to get crossed up a bit, who owns that anyway?

the less said about that car the better I say. he certainly wasn't making too many friends in the pits with his driving antics and throwing dirt and crap all over the track..........

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Originally posted by hellbugged Quote: Originally posted by GTMac Well completed my first Valla. Tired and grumpy when home but a good night sleep will fix the alcohol consumed. Thanks to all of those people that organise this event, I had a blast. I can see why it has gone so many years. Also it was great to put names to faces and meet many of the people I chat with on this site. Ohh and how was that weather Cheers, Andrew thankyou for coming up Andrew........glad you enjoyed it fasty looked good and fast too thankyou for putting on a show at Raleigh Raceway

Car looked great Andrew, I stopped on the hill as I was leaving and watched you hammer around the track. Very nice! That a 2.5? the announcer mentioned that it was?

Dam it!!!!!!!! I could have gone, i have my spare gearbox in & working fine on thrusday but i figured that i need it to last a at least few weeks, till the new Albins gears & the lockrite diff arrives, so i played it safe & just went for a gork at the Mt cotton hill Climb instead,,,, but it certainly looks like it was a great weekend,,, i know i would have been tempted to fang around the race track tho so in one sense i`m glad i didn`t go,,, the tow truck charge back to Brisbane after blowing yet another gearbox would have been a killer :-)

ah well,,, 2 years time i might make it again, i`ve only ever been once & it seems like a life time ago.

hey Andrew was good to catch up with u and i gotta say that one one tidy fasty u got
looked like a blast flogging around the track

Andrew I think I have some footage of the Fasty around Raleigh. Am in the process of getting it all organised so you will see it on here soon....

It was my first Valla to and I had such a blast!!! Thanx Jace, Jess Chris & Jon for such an awesome time =) Just got home, took us around 6 hours but it was a really nice drive there and back. I've fallen in love with Nambucca & Byron Bay!

Bloody awesome.

Great to see a wide variety turned out.

Absolutely fantastic show, well organised! Highly recommend anyone who has never been to go next time round. It was my first time I went to the vw spectacular, and Im glad I did. So many vws, and the convoy was brilliant. Can't wait for 2010!

yep top weekend as always hooray
however after leaving valla at 6am and driving straight thru n arriving in melberg at 1.30am then being woken at 7am this morning by the roofer i organised a while back fair to say im a wee bit nackered..
when i get my finger out i'll dig out some pics yeah..
apart from that did i mention it was a top weekend
cheers h

valla was such an awesome weekend, the weather was perfect
couldn't have asked for anything more..
even though it was only my 2nd valla it was SO MUCH better then the first one
was good to see most cars arrived safely
i only went through a quarter of a tank of fuel on the way down haha...

cheers jess

great weekend as always , missed the very first (not by choice but birth lol) will never miss one again

shame the night life was ruined this year by fire bans and cops in the park

there is normally ppl everywhere till around 5 am each night just roaming fire to fire , starting up random drunken convo's or cruising around the park in there cars at 5kph (with the exception of last year due to rain)
its more social event then car show

i know there is still ppl out there who only go to car shows to bitch about this judge or that trophy , the peoples choice judging has solved alot of that (although you will never shut the trainer queens up completely :P)

ps. ppl who left sunday arvo this year missed the funniest night of the weekend for night life haha

The judging fomat over the last two Vallas has taken the prestige from this event its different strokes for different folks my thing is SHOW CARS others is socializing and caching up with old freinds while others are just there for the Volkswagen seen ,Its a big effort to prepere a car something that is lost on many people , PS I DROVE to Valla and home as I do every show I attend.

sorry , that was not ment to offend billet

im no stranger to the prep that goes into getting a car ready for a show

i love show cars , but no matter how nice or immaculate a car is i will never drive it somewhere to be judged (you love your car who cares if xyz likes it / hates it) all judging gets is ppl pissed off about the fact they missed out or that "joe blow" won
the only trophy i have ever really liked seeing awarded at valla is peoples choice

love the fact that you are not afraid to drive your car the distance , i dont know if i would have the patience to polish all that after the trip !

No offence taken AVWboy I have betten many high dollar cars and generaly thay come over and congradulate me judging is fine if done to a points format as is the case at most shows, I just love the compertition,I was the same when I was a racing my bike (in my youger years).

My girls vote Dads car the best everytime

So where for interest can I find out the winners, people choice, top 10 etc etc?

Hi Andrew,

Great to see you in Nambucca, pity I did not see your fasty racing as I was nursing a sore head.

I can run through some of the winning cars from the top of my head

Ratty Rusty low on Polished Porsche alloys 54 Barndoor Kombi

Splitty Double Cab rego DU88LE

Luke Pells Splitty Double Cab, low, without rear gates

70 Beetle burnt orange stock resto

Red Superbug factory cabrio

Blue and White Splitty Samba orginal resto on 356 wheels

Deep Metallic Grey oval on pimped big Alloys pictured earlier on this thread.

Blue and white rod custom

Black and Red Baja pictured earlier on this thread.

Cheers,

David