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NEWSLETTER SPRING 2004 Members of the Association of British VW Clubs VW Shows for 2004 VW Expo is again in Kent on 27th June, and Danny Lord has arranged a line-up there. We’re already into the season, with Dub Check the details with Danny on 07956-605333 Freeze back in Feb and the VolksWorld Show in (also report of 2003 meeting on p3). If you want March. There are some young chaps doing to contact Danny by letter, please note he is sterling work promoting the Type 3 on-line and now at 32 Tintagel Manor, Skinner Street, at these shows, with far more energy than the Gillingham, Kent, ME7 1LH. long-standing (oh, my backache!) members of the Type 3 & 4 Club. Anyone who went to either July 3rd/4th sees the ever popular BVF at of these shows will surely have seen the Type Malvern, again a family event, with clowns, 3s. Well done guys. evening entertainment and loads of VWs of all types. Last year there was a Beetle barbecue – Stanford Hall coming on Sunday 2nd May literally the front of a Beetle built as a barbecue. is the authoritative classic VW show, with top notch concours, club representation and masses Peppercorn on 10/11th July will again have of traders attending. The club stand is plot 7, a Type 3 and 4 line-up, with camping on the along by the water’s edge. Drop in for a chat (at Saturday night, and a club cruise. Again, the stand, not the lake!), and bring any bits you contact Danny Lord (above) for details. want to sell – mark with name (or club membership number if you want anonymity) and VW North-West, Tatton Park, 8th August price. is just the place to be if you can’t get to the USA Type 3 Meeting in Hershey, chocolate capital of Straight after Stanford Hall, why not go the USA. With a strong following in the along to Big Bang at Santa Pod. Manchester area, it is hoped the Club will have Fastbackerdez says “if anyone is going to a long overdue stand at this meeting. Stanford Hall on the Sunday they can camp at Volunteers, please! Santa Pod on Sunday night for the Monday only price (you get a free night’s camping at the Talking of which, if you can help on the Club show). There will also be a cruise up the strip stand at a show for an hour or even less, please for the line up!!!” Check out the T3UK website find the Club plot early and put your name down at www.t3uk.org.uk so you can join in the Type 3 on the rota. You will get first look at the parts line-up there on Monday 3rd May. people bring for the club to sell, too, so there can be advantages too. The next weekend 15/16th May you can be in North Wales at Bodelwyddan Castle near Rhyl. There’s a Type 3 and 4 line up planned Future Publications by the organisers, so don’t let them down please There will shortly be an updated if you’re in that area, and fancy free camping membership handbook, so if you’ve changed from 12 noon, and entertainment on the your car, address, e-mail or other details, please Saturday night. let the Editor know so he can change the data entry. th Next biggie is Stonor Park, on Sunday 6 If you enjoy reading about Type 3s, please June where the Club will again be represented. write something for the magazine – it really is much easier for the editorial team (ha, ha!) to If you fancy going foreign, get those cross- come up with a publication if there’s something channel tickets organised, and enjoy two shows to publish. Send contributions in any form, by for the price of one. The Typ3 Meeting in any means, nothing so far has been unreadable Leipzig (10-14 June) is quite a way to go, but either by man or machine. There’s a challenge! worth the trip, and the next weekend is probably Published by the VW Type 3 & 4 Club. the best family VW event around, at Budel in Editor: Dave Hall, 116 The Common, Pensford, Holland. Ask Larry and Lin Collins, or Danny Bristol. BS39 4AU. 01761-490653 Lord about it (or any Notch owner!). e-mail: [email protected] VW Type 3 & 4 Club Newsletter Spring 2004: page 1 Events 2004 July We hope to have a club stand and/or there is a special vehicle line-up planned for all the events 3-4 - British VW Festival, Three Counties Show shown in bold print. Ground, Malvern, Worcs. www.bvwf.org.uk May 10-11 - Peppercorn, Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent. Phone 020 8330 0148. 1-3 - Big Bang, Santa Pod, Wellingborough, Northants. www.big-bang.co.uk 23-25 - Bug Jam, Santa Pod, Wellingborough, (t3uk organised line-up Bank Holiday Monday) Northants. www.bugjam.co.uk 2 - Stanford Hall, Lutterworth, Leics. August www.stanfordhallvw.co.uk 1 - London Volksfest, North Weald Airfield, Harlow, 9 - Christchurch Classic, Christchurch, Dorset. Essex. www.vwaction.co.uk www.jcevents.co.uk 7-8 – USA Type 3 Meeting, Hershey, Pennsylvania. 9 – Dubs at the Park, South Hill Park Arts Centre, http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaransonT3/2004Inv Ringmead, Birch Hill, Bracknell, Berks. asion . www.ltv-vwc.org.uk 8 - VW Northwest, Tatton Park, Knutsford, 15-16 - All Types VW Show, Bodelwyddan Castle, Cheshire. www.vwnw.co.uk Rhyl, N. Wales. www.alltypesvwshow.co.uk 8 - Sussex VWOC Summer Festival, The Yew tree, 28-31 - Run To The Sun, Newquay, Cornwall. Chalvington, East Sussex. www.thesvwoc.co.uk www.runtothesun.co.uk 13-15 - Volksfest Wales, Margam Park, Port Talbot, 28-30 - Scottish VW Owners Festival, Biggar Show S. Wales. www.volksfestwales.org.uk Ground, Biggar, South Lanarkshire. [email protected] 27-30 - The Gathering On The Hill, Beacon Country Park, Up Holland, West Lancashire. June www.volkswigan.co.uk 5-6 - Deva Dub Show, Chester Race Course. 27-29 - Cornwall VW Jamboree, Monkey Tree www.devadubshow.co.uk Holiday Park, Nr. Newquay. www.cvwoc.co.uk or phone 01872 870567 6 - Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames. www.britishvwevents.com September 10-14 - VW Typ3 Liebhaber Annual Meeting, Leipzig, GERMANY. www.typ3.de 3-5 - VW Action, Herts County Show Ground. www.vwaction.co.uk 11-13 - VW Action Theme weekend "VWoodstock", Herts County Showground. www.vwaction.co.uk 11-12 - Vanfest, Three Counties Show Ground, Malvern, Worcs. www.vanfest.org 18-20 - Budel, Manege d`Auwe Meule, Budel, HOLLAND. 17-19 - VW Euro, Six Flags, Biddinghuizen, Holland www.keverclub.nl/budel www.vweuro.nl 20 - Bristol Volksfest, Bath Race Course. 19 - Beetle Drive, Crich Tramway Village, Matlock, www.bristolvolksfest.co.uk Derbys. www.tramway.co.uk 22 - Drive your VW to work day, Worldwide. October www.ploon.nl/int-vw-day 2 - Brighton Breeze, Brighton sea front. 27 - VW Expo, The Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, www.ssvc.org.uk Kent. www.abvwc.org.uk 31 - Slough Swap Meet, Montem Sports Centre, 27 - Beach Buggin, Southsea Common, Portsmouth Slough. www.britishvwevents.com www.beachbuggin.com With grateful thanks to VolksWorld and VWm 27 - The Historic Volkswagen Festival, Hatton Magazine for the above info. Websites:- Country World, Nr. Warwick. www.historicvws.org.uk www.volksworld.com and www.vwmonline.co.uk. VW Type 3 & 4 Club News letter Spring 2004: page 2 VW EXPO 2003 – Danny Lord reports the invitation to be in the cruise, being my ’63 VW EXPO this year was held at the Hop Notch, Larry Collins’ ’62 Notch, Clive Farm at Beltring, near Paddock Wood in Kent on Richardson’s ’65 Razor-edge and Dan Allum’s the 29th of June. It was organised by Mike ’73 Fastback. Unfortunately on that day there Wood of the Association of British VW Clubs, had been a serious accident on the M25 or M26, which the Type 3 & 4 Club are part of. The making it very difficult for Dan to make it on time Type 3 & 4 Club were offered a display for to Brands Hatch. After a few phone calls to Dan approximately 20 cars. to find out where he was, we decided to go and A couple of weeks prior to this event I sent meet him in Sevenoaks. Clive used to work in out a letter to nearly all Type 3&4 Club members this area so luckily he knew a lot of the back in the South-East area enquiring if they would roads (but even a few of those were fairly busy). be interested in displaying their car in the line-up of this event and at the Peppercorn Show a We eventually found Dan and decided to couple of weeks later. In total there were 9 head straight to Peppercorn. Once we arrived, Type 3s in the line-up, but no Type 4s (where we set up camp, put on our sun-block, sat back are they all?). Although a relatively small show, and watched everyone else arrive. The area there were quite a few clubs present, namely the that is normally set aside for camping was full by Mexican and Brazilian register, Hazzard VW about mid-afternoon, so campers started to set Club, Kentish VW Klub, Trekker Register, Essex up on the car-parks and even on our reserved VW Club and a few water-pumper clubs. There display area. After a chat with the culprits, they were quite a few traders and auto-jumblers promised to be out of the way by Sunday present.