Tk and I decided a while ago that we would attend this event, the first major event of the UK's very busy season for anything VW related. The idea of getting both 16 valves out for a spring blast to the legendary two lane 'strip' was too much to resist. Without focusing on the negatives, mine didn't prove to be finished in time so we met at Cambridge services and made the rest of the trip in Trev's fine example of the mark 2.
With the BBS RS rims freshly adorned with wider dish and R888's on for good measure the stance was a bit 'full'
Rude!
Anyway, we met up with the guys (by chance) from the DubGen forum and the collective made their way to Podington. The queue's were huge with hundreds of fettled cars all patiently waiting to get in.
Within about half an hour, we had made our way into the club area only to find that the organisers had not allocated the correct amount for DubGen, so the forty plus people had to make do with ten spots instead! A good start, but the rest of us parked locally enough and got on with it.
Trev and I made our way to the auto jumble, keen to search out a bargain. I thought this was a fantastic idea and we were amongst a huge swell of people all looking for that rare or cheap part. Alloys, seats, stereos....panels too. I could have spent a small fortune but that kind of defeats the point of the car, so I decided to keep my cash out of the way
The strip was quite busy; a mix of tuned road cars, the odd shed and some proper race cars were all making steady progress up and down the strip. 200+ cars in total ranging from a 9 second 144mph mark 1 Golf to a truely dreadful diesel thing that rocked a 20 second run and a staggering 67mph
The standard of the cars overall was immense. Great variety and some real creativity shown too.........almost like a hot rod element to some of the ways that the VW scene do their thing.
Pics
New Scirocco with AMG wheels (and dice)
10 second Berg Cup style Scirocco
No idea what this is, other than hugely entertaining and bloody good at launching
At one point, this was outdragging a turbocharged mark 2.
A very hard driven 20v turbocharged mark 2
This car was up for sale at
