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| By the time I arrived at Pease Pottage services to meet the rest of the WBC guy's the rain was coming down like it was the end of the world. Even though I needed a comfort break and some break- fast I decided to sit in the bus for a while. |
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| It wasn't all bad though, at least I had Ricki's RAT look panel van to admire that was parked up in front of me. |
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| I also had 'Margo', Rich Coxhill's '72 blue and white late bay to look at. The rain was starting to ease, so maybe it's time to go and get some breakfast and go to the toilet, but not necessarily in that order! |
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| When I came back from the services the rain had decreased to constant drizzle, time to meet some other WBC members and get some photos. Simon's '61 green single cab, Mark's '79 orange Devon and CJ's '76 red late bay were the first vehicles I recognised in the services car park. |
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| My 1969 microbus parked up in the rain next to Rich's blue and white '72 late bay, Paul's 1967 SO42 Westfalia and Davyd's slammed grey Subaru powered 1991 T25 and it looks like Kat's 1985 red T25. |
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| WBC members Chris's orange bay and Simon's blue and white panel van getting wet in the services car park. |
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| Chris's bright orange 2.0 litre auto high top bay certainly brightens up the dull overcast car park. |
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| As the WBC left the services to head to Brighton in a huge convoy, I had the pleasure of following Ricki in his awesome ratty panel van. This is one cool looking van. |
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| As there were so many WBC buses that met up at the services, getting out was busy to say the least, I let Ross squeeze in, in his lovely '69 bay. |
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| The A23 is the main route into Brighton from the midlands, and by the time the WBC convoy hit the road there were classic Volkswagens of all descriptions heading down towards Brighton. I'm not sure if this lovely orange and white splitty was a WBC member or not, but he sure looked cool cruising along in the fast lane. |
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| En-route to Brighton, the WBC convoy made good time and the amount of classic Volkswagens heading down the A23 was amazing. It's at times like these that I need someone to ride shotgun to take decent photos! |
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| The WBC have arrived in Brighton. Robin in his cool 1965 walk through split screen panel van followed me onto Maderia Drive, which is where all the buses line up for the show. I took this photo whilst queueing up to get into the show. |
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| I love this old ratty split screen. I've seen it many times at this show and every year it still looks as good. There are more photos of this bus later on in this blog review. |
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| Ricki's grey RAT look panel van and Craig's '57 blue school bus parked up on the seafront at Brighton. Both these guy's are WBC members. |
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| A better look at Craig's '57 school bus parked up alongside Paul's white SO42 Westfalia. |
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| WBC member Kat came along to the Breeze in her stunning 1985 T25. This really is a lovely looking bus. I do like these T25's and could easily have one. |
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| Susie's lovely white over blue '67 split screen (parked nearest the camera) bus parked up at the Brighton Breeze show. |
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| More WBC buses, Rich's blue and white Westy Continental, Darren's white Westy and Davyd's grey T25. |
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| A better look at the buses, (above) which marked the start of the Wolfsburg Bus Crew's line up. |
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| More WBC vehicles at Brighton Breeze, Jason's Yellow '74 bay parked just along from my bus. |
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| A better look at WBC member Jason 'Ginger Jay's '74 late bay, which he affectionately refers to it as 'my crappy yellow and white bay' ! |
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| My 1969 microbus parked up at Brighton with Robin's '65 'Brumos Racing' split panel van. |
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| A blog review of an any VW event that I attend wouldn't be complete with a photo of my 1969 microbus... so here it is!! I'm surprised on how clean she looks considering the awful weather I had to drive through to get to Brighton. |
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| Two more WBC members vehicles. I don;t know who owned the white over blue bay, but I do know that Simon owns the gorgeous green and white single cab. |
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| Here's a better look at Simon's 1961 single cab split screen pick up. This really is a cool looking bus. I love the overall look of Simon's ride. |
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| A trio of cool T25's that are part of the WBC. Kat's red 1985 T25 named 'Bertie', Gary's '86 yellow T25 and Karen's blue high top T25, with Heather just parking her yellow '71 rag top early bay. |
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| It may be dull and overcast on the seafront but Chris's stunning 1979 bright orange 2.0 late bay brightens up the seafront display. |
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| CJ's red '76 slammed bay and Mark's orange Devon and Richard's green and white bay, all these guys are WBC members. CJ is an optimist, it's early October in the U.K and we are on the seafront, it's cold and wet and CJ is wearing shorts!! |
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| Cara, another WBC member went to the Brighton Breeze in her gorgeous '67 split screen bus. |
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| I'm not sure if these buses were part of the WBC line up or not, as there were so many buses and bugs on the seafront and so many WBC buses they all sort of mingled into one! |
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| This radical slammed brown bug caught my eye, just look at that reflection on the door and rear quarter panel, hows that for a shine! I did like the overall look of this cool bug. |
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| The custom wheels were neat, the banded rear wheels with the stretched tyres only just fit under the rear arches. Those spiked wheel nuts added the final touch. |
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| The early tail lights and the custom engine lid with air scoop suited the overall look of this old rag top beetle. |
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| From one extreme to another, I spotted this old bug on the back of a trailer, it was for sale but it needed just a small (!) amount of work! |
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| The dreaded rust has got a good hold of this old bug. I can't remember how much it was up for sale for, but it drew plenty of attention. |
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| There were plenty of vehicles for sale at the show to suit all budgets and I'm guessing this was priced to sell. |
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| The Brighton Breeze show is organised by the split screen van club and as you we expect the number of split screen vans was immense. This is the S.S.V.C.'s biggest show of the year. |
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| Split screen buses of all years, models and styles lined both sides of Maderia Drive on Brighton's sea front. |
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| This lovely clean yellow and white '79 Moonraker belongs to Sian, who lives local to me. I knew she was coming down but due to the sheer numbers of vehicles at the Breeze, I thought the chances of seeing her were remote. However out of the hundreds upon hundreds of vehicles on the sea- front we ended up parking opposite each other! |
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| This '64 split screen slowly cruised past me as I wandered along Maderia Drive. I do like to see a stock looking bus and this bus ticked all the right boxes for me. |
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| It was overcast and grey, and not to mention wet so I didn't think to carry my sunglasses, but when this super bright lime green and white split drove past I wish I had of been wearing them! This '64 bus was super clean oh, so bright! |
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| This gorgeous '69 turquoise and white Dormobile belongs to WBC member Chris. This really is a lovely bus that is so straight and clean. Chris is also a member of the WBC. |
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| This stunning '77 white over blue late bay belongs to Dave and Theresa who are both WBC members. This bus really was so clean despite the lousy weather we had earlier in the day. |
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| The 'patina' look is still big here in the U.K. and this '69/70 early bay had plenty of patina. It also had a few knocks and scrapes which gave it a cool RAT look. |
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| The sheer diversity of vehicles at the Breeze is immense. Whatever type of Volkswagen your into, you'll be able to find it here. It's not just air cooled VW's, the Breeze now attracts plenty of water cooled T25's, and T4 / T5's. |
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| This is that radical split screen bus that I took a photo of whilst queueing up to get into the show. This old '65 bus has so many accessories and bolt on goodies. |
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| You could spend ages looking around this bus, the old skool flames give this bus an old hot rod look. |
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| The guy's from 'The Early Bay.com' were at the Breeze in force. When these guy's go to a show, they certainly put on a good display. |
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| There were early bay's from all years, models and ride heights! |
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| This beige 1968 deluxe microbus early bay was up for sale and it looked to be a good honest bus. It has a standard split screen front beam with adjusters and flipped spindles. This Californian bus, although originally from Oregon was imported around 11 years ago. |
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| It looked to be really solid and possibly a good purchase for someone, it was priced at a very reasonable £10,000 ($14,000 approx) So that was the first of three instalments all about the Brighton Breeze VW show 2017. Next weeks review will be part two where you can see plenty more buses, bugs, buggies , type 3's and Karmann Ghia's so be sure to come back next Saturday. |
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