Part two of Wolfsburg Bus Crew's Autumnal meet and camp out.
The Wolfsburg Bus Crew is a club on Facebook for owners of Volkswagen split screen, bay window and T25 buses. Even though the club is based in London, they have members all across the U.K. as well as all over the world. It doesn't matter in your bus isn't a show winner, you'll be welcomed whatever your bus looks like. The club organise club meets, club stands at various shows throughout the year, arrange various runs and camping trips and they have also negotiated numerous discounts from various VW parts suppliers. The club have two club meets a year, one in the spring and one in the autumn both held at Wendover Woods, near Aylesbury, Bucks, and both with a camp out at a camp site next to the woods. This year the Autumn meet was arranged for Saturday 19th October, with a convoy to the woods from the meeting place at the Tesco superstore in Aylesbury. This time Rich Coxhill, who runs the club asked me if I would be his wingman on the 9 mile cruise to the woods.
The review continues as I wander along the rows of awesome busses.
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| Rich's '74 Westfalia Continental. |
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| Car park is packed with classic VW's. |
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| After looking at the WBC busses for a few hours, it was time to take Suzie for a walk in the woods. |
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| Lovely autumnal colours. |
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| After a long circular walk around the woods we ended up back at the club meet. |
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| Time for a well earned cup of tea. |
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| My bus in the WBC line up at Wendover Woods. |
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| Loving the stripes. |
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| Early afternoon and the sun came out giving crew members a chance to mingle and have a chat. |
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| As usual at the club meets, everyone that attends votes for their favourite bus, and the winner wins a hand painted saw by 'Sinky Pete's Signwriting', (on Facebook) a club branded T-shirt and some stickers. |
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| The winner of the 'Best Bus' vote went to this awesome '78 panel van owned by Gary and Rebecca Reynolds and built by Mark Waby. The van is know an 'Frank' (Frankenstein) The bus runs a MK4 Golf GT TDI 1.9 130 engine with a 6 speed gearbox. It has disc brakes all round and a modified wiring loom. |
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| The van has electric power steering, Golf seats, MK1 Golf GTI steel wheel arches covering the AMG Mercedes wheels. It also has split screen cargo doors and rear lights. |
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| The rear vents were lowered and were replaced with Beetle horn grilles. |
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| It has a full width bed using Golf rear seats. This is Gary's daily work van. |
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| Rich handing Gary and Rebecca their trophy saw. |
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| The location for the camp out was just around the corner from the woods. A five minute drive to Hill Farm Campsite. Home - Hill Farm Campsite |
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| A lovely sunset at the WBC camp out. |
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| I didn't camp out, but having spoken to Rich the crew had a great time. Thanks to Rich for the camp out photos. |
So that was the Wolfsburg Bus Crew's Autumnal meet at Wendover Woods. It was another well organised meet with some crew members travelling over 100 miles to join in the fun. The weather started off a bit wet wet, but the sun came out in the afternoon and a great time was had by everyone. It is a great place to meet up with some old friends and make new ones. I'm looking forward to the spring meet already! I did want to post a link to an awesome video that Rich Coxhill made of the cruise, meet and camp out, but unfortunately the file size was too big, so I suggest you head on over to the Wolfsburg Bus Crew's page Wolfsburg Bus Crew | Facebook and have a look for yourself Wolfsburg Bus Crew | Facebook .. you will not be disappointed!
