Aylesbury VW Owners Club meet.

On Sunday 16th March I attended the Aylesbury VW Owners Club (AVWOC) breakfast meet held at the Akeman Inn, Kingswood, nr. Aylesbury. This is a monthly meet and I always like to go along to show my support when I can. The club was set up in 2020 to try and get all the local VW owners, both air-cooled and water cooled to travel together to shows and events. The monthly meets allow owners to talk about their VW's and pick other members brains regarding any problems they may have, and of course just to see your mates!. To find out more about the AVWOC check out their Facebook page: Aylesbury VW Owners | Facebook  Although the sun was shining, it is still early in the year and there was a cold wind that cut right through you, but as I had some free time, I decided to give the bus a drive out. As I was driving through  my estate I saw the owner of a lovely lime green bug that had recently appeared and as I had never met the owner I instantly pulled over for a chat. His name is Keil and was a lovely friendly guy. Having chatted about his bug for a while I mentioned that I was on my way to the club meet. Keil had never heard of the AVWOC or been to one of the club meets, so he didn't hesitate to follow me over to the club meet to see what he'd been missing.

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My 1969 VW Microbus parked up at the
club meet.

Keil's 1973 bug that rides on air. 

Those banded rear steel wheels have 
some serious camber going on.

The opening screen looked cool.

Getting towards the end of the breakfast
meet, my bus looks somewhat lonely.

So that was a brief look at the AVWOC monthly meet, there was actually loads more vehicles at the meet but they were all water cooled, and I try to keep my blog for air-cooled vehicles. In fact when Keil and I arrived we had to drive around the huge car park a few times looking for somewhere to park. Overall a great way to spend a cold Sunday morning.

Wolfsburg Bus Crew's Autumn meet 2024 (part 2 of 2)

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.

Car park is packed with classic VW's.

After looking at the WBC busses for a few
hours, it was time to take Suzie for a walk
in the woods.

Lovely autumnal colours.

After a long circular walk around the
woods we ended up back at the club
 meet.

Time for a well earned cup of tea.

My bus in the WBC line up at Wendover
Woods.

Loving the stripes.

Early afternoon and the sun came out
giving crew members a chance to mingle
and have a chat.

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.

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.

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.

The rear vents were lowered and were
replaced with Beetle horn grilles.

It has a full width bed using Golf rear
seats. This is Gary's daily work van.

Rich handing Gary and Rebecca their
trophy saw.

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

A lovely sunset at the WBC camp out.

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!