Wednesday, 14 August 2019

VW Junkies, Bletchley



Monday 12th August




I have enjoyed driving the Beetle as my daily driver during the summer. It is running really well, it looks good with the new paint and I do get a lot of compliments about it when I am out and about. It has never been my intention to take it to car shows but it did deserve at least one outing to a VW car club meeting and with nothing important to do on a Monday night, Dave and I went over to The Rugby Club in Bletchley for the VW Junkie’s Show and Shine. We duly paid our £3 entry, £1 for a sticker and £1 for a raffle ticket and parked up next to a few other Beetles. There were about 30 vehicles altogether, not a bad turnout for a Monday night but if they are looking to increase membership they are going a funny way about it. None of the members spoke to us apart from one guy who picked fault with my car, even though we had explained it was a deliberate decision not to make it a shiny, new version of the Beetle. His car was nice. It won best air cooled and Best in Show, which was more than a stretch, as it wasn’t a patch on the beautiful and expensively restored metallic lime green Beetle. The owners had attended the show for the first time but obviously people only voted for their mates!

 

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