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| Just two of the many quality show standard beetle's at Stonor Park. The sheer numbers and diversity of both air cooled and water cooled Volkswagen's that attended the VW Expo was incredible. |
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| Looking across the show and shine field early on the Sunday morning. The sun is shining and the queue of vehicles heading into the show was getting longer by the minute. |
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| This awesome looking 181 Trekker looked great in it's bright lime green paint, and with the 'Shrekker' decal on the side. The neat looking front spoiler / splitter was obviously there for a reason as was the full roll cage. |
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| This 181 does look tough, I didn't find out what size engine it had but I'm guessing it isn't the standard motor. |
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| The interior was pure race themed, with the roll cage, quick shift gear stick and various essential dials, including the monster tacho with shift light. |
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| This lovely late bay with it's white over an olive green colour was an unusual choice of colours, but it worked so well. This bus was immaculate. |
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| This bay really was finished to a show winning standard. The attention to detail was amazing. |
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| This early split screen panel fire bus looked very authentic from the outside with it's decals and blue light. This panel van really did look nice and solid. |
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| The interior of the fire bus was anything but authentic looking. It was fitted out with a very distinctive camping interior which was covered in lots of Union flags. |
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| This 1970 Westfalia early bay was another of the immaculate vehicles on display. This Westy really was lovely and clean and very straight. |
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| I think this, like my early bay is a U.S. import and it was finished to such a high standard. |
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| Here is a vehicle I instantly recognised, it is Julian's 1965 alpine rally style beetle. Julian is a member of the local Volkswagen club, The Wolfsburg Weed Huggers. |
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| This really is a lovely old bug that is very solid and straight. |
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| Fantastic looking buses in a fantastic location. |
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| After a few hours of casually wandering around looking at all the fantastic show vehicles and through the trade stands, I headed back to my bus to make a cup of tea. This is the view out of my sliding door. Stonor Park really does have plenty of room for the vehicles to spread out and in such an idyllic location. |
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| Whilst drinking my tea and having a rest, this gorgeous white 1971 fastback pulled up next to the bus that was parked next to me. I had not seen this whilst walking around so I quickly jumped out to take a few photos. |
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| This really did look like a very clean and solid fastback. The type 3's (fastback, square back and notch back) were produced from 1961 - 1973 and this one looked factory fresh. |
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| This 1964 deluxe split screen finished in what looks like Sea Blue and white really was a nice clean bus. The polished Fuchs style wheels suited the clean sleek look of this bus. |
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| The VW Expo show is a very laid back show, which is ideal for just chilling out with your mates, and your VW's on a Sunday afternoon. |
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| The grounds of Stonor House are huge which allows for the show vehicles to be adequately spaced out to enable the visitors to have a good look at each vehicle. |
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| This stunning type 3 notchback was totally immaculate. The off white body was perfectly straight and the black roof complimented the body colour and matched the wheels. |
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| Apart from the aftermarket wheels this notch looked as though it could have just driven off the production line. These notchback's were produced with either the 1500cc or 1600cc engine. |
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| Looking across the rear wing of the lovely notch at a small part of the show and shine field. |
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| Looking across the show and shine field with the glorious Oxfordshire countryside as a backdrop for this great Volkswagen show. |
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| There were so many quality vehicles parked up in the show and shine field, with almost as many again in the visitor car park. |
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| This fantastic one day show always has such a great diversity of air cooled vehicles on display. |
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| Late in the afternoon I spotted this old beetle driving towards the exit, and I knew I just had to get a photo of it. It's not a show winner with flashy paint, but it looked 'just right'. The nose was down in the weeds and those big rear tyres filled the rear arches perfectly. This was one cool looking bug. |
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| VW Expo always has a great diversity of both air cooled and water cooled Volkswagen's. |
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| Just a few of the beetles in one of the lines of classic bugs. There were beetle's from almost every year since production started. |
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| No VW show would be complete without a 'Herbie' replica and at Stonor Park we had two! |
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| This 1956 original right hand drive deluxe beetle looked amazing. The present owner has owned this car for only 2 years, but before that the last owner had the car for 34 years! It still has the correct 30hp engine and 6 volt electrics. |
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| The deluxe extra's that the Wolfsburg factory added to the car some 60 years ago are still on the car today, such as the VW Sekurit rear pop out windows and the chromed popes nose. This gorgeous original bug was for sale as it is with a price tag of £12,500 ($18,400) approx. |
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| Later in the afternoon we decided to head for home. Driving through the picturesque country lanes of Oxfordshire I was in good company. I was following a white over blue late bay that also left the show at the same time as us, whilst following me were... |
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| Claude and Jean in his 1958 low light Karmann Ghia. So that was the 2016 VW Expo show that was held at Stonor Park. This is a show that I often attend as it always has such a great turn out of show cars and from the general public. I hope my 3 blog reviews have given you an insight into this show and hopefully made you want to visit it next year. Next weeks blog review is all about the Just Kampers open day. So make sure you come back on Saturday to find out all about the open day. |
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