Your first ever VW show experience!!

[Myvanway]

Hi all, just wanted to hear about everyones first VW show, where it was, and your experiences??? arty0009:

Mine was R.T.T.S '95' 8)
When Newqquay was a surf village full of cool shops (Fat Willys!!!, Dream machine...got my Flying fish jumper from there!!), cream teas, clotted cream, surfers, veedubs.....and the famous water fights in the high street!! :lol:
Im trying to scan a few 'well' dodgy pics of me and my missus when we were......alot younger!!

 

[lowbus]

The first VW show i went to was stoner park 1987 in my mums 74 bay
I was 7 years old, and i bought my first 1950s toy die cast split screen bus which i still own today aged 32,

I have been hooked ever since

 

[Marvel]

Mine was bug jam 2009. It was rather wet to start with, and the toilets were terrible. I hear nothing's changed :lol:

 

[crede999]

Bug jam 91 ..in a 66 bug that wouldn't idle ! . Stella for a quid out of a amberlance .... A tap to wash , and about 4 portaloos for everyone :shock: one strobe light in the rave , 4 hours to get out ,no organisation ... It was ace :lol:


Chris

 

[Chris C]

Volksworld 2011 :-

First ever outing in the bus - Broke down 5 times, everyone helped with pushstarts until eventually a couple of blokes in a T4 towed us in, We spent the show bumping into people who had pushed the van, Thanking them and shaking hands. The Engines since been sorted by Veedubs in Welling and all good since then !.

The wife will never forget it, but me and the kids love the van !

 

[Doris]

Tatton park (VWNW) round about '88 ? Loved it. Dad had a 77 Dormy - it's all his fault. Really interested to see how many variations of a theme there where. Been into the scene ever since .

 

[obsidianocean]

My first was the British Volkswagen Festival in 2002 went with a friend who had an old polo at the time and came away with the bug, got a 66 bug soon after and owned an aircooled ever since :mrgreen:

 

[clyde]

Bug jam 91 ..in a 66 bug that wouldn't idle ! . Stella four quid out of a amberlance .... A tap to wash , and about 4 portaloos for everyone, 4 hours to get out ,no organisation


Chris

That sounds like nothings changed then.!!!!!

 

[68_early_bay]

Been going classic car shows etc since I was a kid and always wanted a vw, but my first true vw only show was bugjam 2009! Really wet, and the queues were huge, but some really good dubs, which started me off on finally getting my bus

 

[Gert Big T]

RTTS 1987 - Went down in a mates orange fastback, saxophones and guitars around a bonfire in the middle of the camp site, surfing on a Baja Bug at three in the morning, poppers (a cheap high that just gave you a headache), and it really was sunny! All the cars were sprayed in custom pastel shades of peach or green and yes there were water pistol fights in Newquay, however it was the ols pistols that only rook a thimble full of water andyou could pee further than! Them were the days :lol:

 

[Clem]

RTTS in 1990 8)

Great days, it took me years to stop going to RTTS as my memories of those early events stayed so strong, but it just changed too much.

 

[Myvanway]

RTTS in 1990 8)

Great days, it took me years to stop going to RTTS as my memories of those early events stayed so strong, but it just changed too much.

Yep!! first time I ever heard a 'Dumpvalve'!!! :lol:
That was the last time I went, I remember getting sprayed in the highstreet by a "Gangstar" hanging out of the window of a bmw 325i.....didnt smell like water though!!! :shock:
Surfer Dudes and V-dubbers attracted the Bettys, and the Bettys attracted all the Chavs!! :evil:

 

[mister]

Mine was RTTS also. I think it was 92. Didn't plan on going it just happened to coincide with a camping trip to Newquey.
I spent a wet hazy weekend looking at all the buses, working out which years where which styles and which I preferred.

Six weeks later I had sold my mini and bought a 70 Devon tin top in Beige for £1000 and was hooked.

 

[maddog]

1993 Santa Pod VW Spring Nationals.....in the Dormy i still own

 

[Gütterßnipe]

Bug Jam 1990 was my first VW show with an ex-girlfriend who was also VW mad. I was driving a brown Mini 1275GT at the time and the show truly converted me!

The next year they'd both got the boot and I turned up with my best buddy in a 66 green roof-chop beetle - my new ride! :lol:

Spence

 

[mattd1984]

My first was a vw show in Redbourne which Is no longer this would have been around 2005

First show with my van was Volksworld 2009 had just got the van and was a very cold drive to the show.

 

[Lee C]

The scottish volkswagen owner's festival @ Doune motor museum about 1995ish, I think, with me mam & dad & little brother!!!!!!! :lol:

Seems like a VERY long time ago now!
Going to Volksfling again in May with me wife, out laws n me old mam again ha ha!








Actually it was a VERY long time ago :shock: :shock: :shock:
17 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: :shock:

 

[leon]

Bug jam 91 ..in a 66 bug that wouldn't idle ! . Stella for a quid out of a amberlance .... A tap to wash , and about 4 portaloos for everyone :shock: one strobe light in the rave , 4 hours to get out ,no organisation ... It was ace :lol:


Chris

Didn't the prodigy play bug jam 91? or was that 92?

My first was Bug freeze 1991. Ahhhh, them pastel colours and vinyl graphics. Happy daze!!!!

 

[leon]

No, it was 93 and 94.

 

[pinky]

The first show I went to was Beetle Bash in 1996 where they built Dubhenge! I was 22 and it was pre-vw ownership and I turned up in a peugeot 405! Met some great people and never looked back :mrgreen: