The variety of vehicles at our club meets is truly diverse, from show winning early split screen buses to RAT looking beetle's and buses, and water cooled T4's / Golf's. The club welcomes any Volkswagen owner and their vehicle whether it's air-cooled or water cooled. As with any club meet across the U.K. the attendance of members is largely dependent on the great British weather, and as it gets colder and the dark nights draw in, the attendance figures drop but there are still the hardy bunch who turn up month after month. It didn't help that this month it was bonfire night on the night of our club meet, so a few members could have been at firework displays.
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| The first of the hardy bunch is Gary who came along in his lovely 1971 cross over bay from the neighbouring county of Bedfordshire. Gary's white over blue bus is his daily driver. |
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| Gary has recently added the Empi 5 spoke wheels and had the bus lowered both of which help transform the look of this old bus. Considering this bus is used on a daily basis, it does look very clean and tidy. |
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| A good photo of Gray's bus from the front, you can see just how clean it is considering it has to brave the elements every day. |
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| Kevin and Sam came along in Kevin's 1987 T25 water cooled crew cab pick up. Kevin also owns a 1970 off road trials beetle. |
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| Kevin's crew cab is a real work horse that he uses to move everything from Volkswagen parts for his and his sons off road beetle's, to his beloved motorcycle. |
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| Kevin has recently purchased a roof top tent which he needs to sleep in when he goes away. These roof top tents are brilliant and can be mounted to all sorts of vehicles. I have seen them mounted onto Beetles, buses and a variety of pick ups. When they are not in use they store down to a nice compact size. |
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| I went along to the club meet in my new 1999 2.5tdi T4, not because I didn't want to go in my 1969 microbus, but because having purchased it, a lot of the club members hadn't seen it, so I thought I'd take it along and show it off! |
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| This is my daily driver now and the benefits of using this are many, including almost twice as good MPG compared to my old 1600cc Honda HRV, and of course I get to drive a Volkswagen every day to work. |
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| Claude came along in his daily driver, an '05 Golf. Claude also has a lovely 1960 split screen bus and a 1958 low light Karmann Ghia but not surprisingly decided to leave them in the garage. |
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| Amanda and Simon came along in Amanda's very distinctive silver Golf with it's super bright pink wheels and personalised registration Number. |
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| Amanda's rear end with her unique registration number, 'X 17RSE' (kiss arse) |
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| The Outcast VW club line up on a cold, dark and damp Thursday evening. Although the numbers of members was down on previous months it was still a very enjoyable evening with like minded people. |
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| The line up from a different angle, (before Ryan and Luke arrived). |
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| The constant drizzle couldn't put off the hardy members of the Outcast VW Club from attending the monthly meet. |
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| Ryan and Luke made a pleasant surprise visit to our club meet in Ryan's '70 early bay. Ryan and Luke are members of the 'VW Collective' page on face-book, you can check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/489317831234964/ |
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| Ryan's patina bus has a massive 2054cc motor with CB044 heads. It is loud and fast which is good because both Ryan and Luke travelled all the way over to the meet from the neighbouring county of Hertfordshire. So that was a brief review of the Outcast VW club's monthly meet for November. Next months meet is slightly different, instead of just meeting up at the pub, Amanda has organised a sit down meal, as it's almost Christmas. So far we have 12 members who have committed to attend. If you live local and wish to attend, visit the face- book page Amanda has set up and put your name down! Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1055783561131077/ Everyone is welcome to join us as long you own a VW (it doesn't even have to be on the road) Let's try to make this event a good Xmas meet by having as many Outcast members as possible attending. Thanks. |
Hello I found your blog when searching for a local VWOC. I am in Bicester and found reference to a group called The Outcast which led me here... but there is no sign of it being active. Are you a member or is it long gone? Do you happen to know any other active groups in Bucks/Oxon area? Interesting blog by the way... some good info here!
ReplyDeleteHi Jane, Sorry the delay in replying... Yes the Outcast Club is still very active, it's just that the facebook page isn't! We still meet on the first Thursday of each month at The Charter Pub, Bicester Road in Aylesbury from 7.00pm onwards. It would be great to see you, you'd be most welcome. We have a couple of members that come over from your way. There are other clubs around the Oxford area but I don't think they are very active now-a-days. Anyway it would be great if you want to pop over some time. This time of year the club meets are a little thin on the ground (but at least that will give you a chance to meet a few people) but in the summer months we can have 20+ vehilces at the meets. Thanks,. Dave.
ReplyDeleteGreat news! I am so pleased to have found your blog. I will come along to the March meeting and look forward to it! Thanks!
DeleteHi Jane, March is good. It'll be on Thursday 2nd at the Charter Pub in Aylesbury. See you there! Dave.
ReplyDeletePS. I normally post a reminder on the Outcast FB page a few days beforehand.
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