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 if 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 Spring meet was arranged for Saturday 5th April, with a convoy to the woods from the meeting place at the Tesco superstore in Aylesbury. The weather forecast was for sunshine all day, as it has been for the last week or so, so it promises to be a good turn out of buses.
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| When I arrived at the Tesco superstore the car park was already packed with air-cooled buses. |
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| As I got out of the bus, Suzie jumped out and ran across to say hello to Simon. |
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| Tesco's car park. |
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| Tesco's car park. |
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| En-route to the club meet in convoy with the 'Wolfsburg Bus Crew'. |
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| Just for a bit of fun, the convoy took a detour through the village of Wendover, up the high street and back down again thus creating two way traffic of vintage air cooled buses. |
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| Wendover High street. The local residents all stood and waved, took photos and smiled as we all slowly drove past. |
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| Wendover High street. |
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| The location for the meet, Wendover Woods, is only a few miles from the village so we were there in no time at all. |
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| The 'Wolfsburg Bus Crew' parked up at the rear of the massive car park at Wendover Woods. |
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| Time for a walk and take some photos.. |
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| My 1969 VW Microbus in the Wolfsburg Bus Crew's spring meet line up. |
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| Robin's split screen panel van, also available as a Scalextric (slot car racing) toy vehicle. |
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| Rich, who runs the Wolfsburg Bus Crew, just chilling with his Continental. |
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| Perry Watkins brought along 'Oklahoma Willy' his street legal jet powered split screen bus. |
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| To find more about Oklahoma Willy, how the truck was built, the engine and watch some You Tube videos of the bus going the 1/4 mile at Santa Pod Raceway, check out the website here: HOME (oklahomawilly.co.uk) |
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| Powered by a Rolls-Royce Viper 535 turbo jet engine. This beast produces 3,450lbs of thrust, and uses 8.3 gallons of fuel per minute |
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| For everyday use the splitty is powered by a 1955cc long block that was built in California by Chico Performance Racing. |
So that was the first instalment about the Wolfsburg Bus Crew's Spring meet 2025. Overall an excellent day with lots of gorgeous buses, friendly crew members, lovely weather and all set in a perfect location. The next instalment will be next Saturday where you can see plenty more lovely buses.
