Sussex VW Owners Club Summer Festival

What a difference a day makes !

The weather was spot on, and we had a great day at a brilliantly organised show. Make it one for your diaries next year.

Nena was entered in the Custom class Show n Shine, against some hardcore buggies, so no prizes, but lots of admirers.

The event also reminded me what a great sense of humour VW fans have !

What more do I need to say...........................

Wheels 08 - here comes the rain again !

Another weekend, another local show, and yes, more rain.

This weekend saw Wheels 08 in Littlehampton get a little wet, well on the Saturday. We didn't go on Sunday as we were at the Sussex VW Owners Club Event, but Saturday was particularly miserable !

Also the organizers had failed to put a ramp or sleeper on the kerb at the entrance, so to avoid damaging Nena's nose we had to reverse in !

Here are a couple of photos:

Well done to the dirty low down dubbers for putting on a good display

As you can see below the event thinned out pretty quickly, and we got wet !

British weather huh !

Nena hangs out with the beach buggy crew

Well the weather wasn't kind, particularly to those without wet weather gear, but this Sunday saw the SDBC (Southern Dune Buggy Club) Annual meet.

I am still a member from my beach buggy days, but non members are also welcome and a host of buggies, a few campers and beetles and one Nova made the day.

Here are a few pictures from the day

The benefit of a roof was clearly demonstrated to the beach buggy crew, and Nena drew many admirers.

We had a good run there and back, about 1hr 15 each way, with no events to report. I recently fitted a Pertronix ignition system to the 009 dizzy, and that seems to be working well. Overall a very enjoyable day,

More show reports soon,

Jim

Goodwood Festival 2008 Friday & Saturday report

What a weekend so far.

The Part 2 magazine article in CKC is out, Nena is on display in the sunshine at the festival and getting loads of attention.

We have seen 3 Bugatti Veyrons, F1 cars from McLaren, Honda, Ferrari, Toyota and many more. Been in touching distance of Derek Bell & Alan McNeish.

The feedback from CKC is that Nena is the most photographed on the stand, and I have spoken to lots (and I do mean lots) of kit car builders who were going to go home, look up the blog and euronova/club nova, and get searching e-bay for Nova projects ! Great. It's been a great feeling of acheivment getting to this point, and we have enjoyed supporting the magazine who continue to be great fans of the Nova and promote the club.

Oh, and I got to hold a Silverstone 2008 Trophy in the McLaren garage !

Here are a couple of photos - off to the Sunday show now, more soon !

Nena into print - Part 2

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Originally uploaded by Jim and Sarah's photos

Well the day is finally here. Part 2 of Nena's story has hit press, advance copies are on sale at Goodwood Festival of Speed, where Nena is on display this weekend too !

What a weekend. 5 pages, plus another shot on the cover. Get down to the shops and buy it !!