Sacramento Bug-O-Rama May 30th

[super vw]

Sweet! Im going

Look for a tall and lanky(as some have discribed) teenager lost and wondering around helplessly looking for parts and at neat cars

[zen]

i'm on. heading up tomorrow. staying at the Marriot on Saturday night.

i will be wearing my black and white VKG shirt and a black Superman hat. hope to hook up with you guys. doh, and i just remembered that i forgot to bring VKG cards with me. what a dumba$$ i am sometimes...no jokes.

[Supa Ninja]

Ha, ha. You got my cell number, I'll be on the look out for a ninja in a VKG shirt rocking a superman hat. You got my cell #, don't be hesitant to use it.
Doesn't look like I'll be camping but I'll definitely be there first thing in the morning. I'm still going to be wearing a black wife beater, VW tatt on shoulder blade, bald head w/red gottee.

SNN

[Supa Ninja]

I got a quick reveiw of BOR #53:

I arrived at the gates at 8am, since me and my friends know the guys who run the show we got a good discount for addmission. I wasn't aware of how inexpensive shows are back East, anyways they are a arm and a leg out here. First off I noticed the swapmeet was bigger then I had ever seen it, so I did my walk through. I scored a couple of parts for the 914. At 9 my buddy with a early bug(white with white sidewalls) got ready to drag his bug. His two runs were in the 13.5's, thats not bad considering he didn't get to run any test and tune runs. I missed the big crash, luckily the driver was alright. The goldish/silver oval with the large TIV w/turbo and twists in the front and fuchs with slicks on the rear ran a 11.5, he seems to be driving it a lot better, in the past when the turbo would kick in it would start fishtailing in the first three gears and he was only get mid 15's.
The carshow was alright, my favorite was a late model fastback, it was silver with twists. I wonder if that was Shad Laws old ride? 2.0L Type IV, AC, cruise control, power everything, very clean GL.
I got to meet SuperVW, VWill'n, and Zen. So I got to talk some GL, since my VW friends are still into callook and resto, and they think i'm a retard for "wasting" all this time and money on a superbeetle. I never found thomas niji, oh well next time in September.
Aside from the sunburn, I had a good time. Overall it was one of my favorite BOR's. It would have been better if I could have unveiled the Supa in full GL trim. It will happen, I jus have a lot of work ahead of me still. Thanks.

Nick

[super vw]

Yeah, it was cool meeting you guys! We had our friend Blake (hes a porsche tech) draging with his oval (red/rust color, speedwell logos). he lost by a hair i think, but he pulled some of his best times yesterday (11 somthing) so it was a good day with that alone.
All of us got some great deals in the swap, we got to the show on saturday so we were out there when the first swapers/venders started to set up and found some early deals. even more people came on sunday and found even more great deals.
The "show" was alright to me. there was a few NICE cars (trailer-Q's) and some trashy cal-look cars aswell. Like super ninja was saying, that fastback was SICK! nothing to extreme but very clean and well done.
There was also a nice giha with early 944 brakes and fuch's i liked a lot, aswell as a orange thing with fuchs (color matched centers to body). not a lot of "Germanlook" style cars... but hey its cali and the cal-look is STILL whats up.
But hey... is it me or does it seam like all the call-look show cars have a low quality build to them, like all the cheap chrome, half assed body work, stuff like that.
I just cant wait to see more GL cars in the shows to blow everyones minds!

Over all i had a good time, got some good deals and had fun, and met some of you guys...so it was worth the 7-8 hour drive

Later,
Jonathan

[zen]

well, i made it back home. not looking forward to the jetlag recovery.

the wife and i headed up from san diego on Saturday. 8 hour drive inlcuding some LA traffic. not bad at all. had i not been a dumba$$, i would have thought to have called Carbon Joe earlier and swung by to meet him. seeing a black vert at the show on Sunday made me think to call, but he stayed home on a rare weekend off and catchup on house work. boy do i know that feeling.

hit the show around 10:00 on Sunday. after a little bit of sticker shock at the front gate (3x what shows go for in the South) we hit the swap and vendor area. a really good sized area. that took a good 45 minutes just to breeze through. hooked up with Supa Ninja, VWill'n and Super VW. watched some racing and then hit the show cars.

i will do a show write-up soon. but here is my summary. i was glad to see how the fabled (for the right-coasters) Cali shows go. for you guys over here, it was about the size of BugJam or maybe a touch larger but in a smaller area). swap/vendor area gets a 8.5 outta 10 for size and quality. races get a 9 outta 10. i only watched a little, but everything seemed to be run VERY smooth and there were some bada$$ cars. show area and cars get a 6 outta 10. nice quantity, sub-par quality compared to what i expected, and way too cramped. i would say on average, the cars were no better or worse than shows here, but they were just packed in way to tight to enjoy.

got to talk with quit a few people that were running a line close to GL and told them to come check out the site. hope we can push them over the edge and find some future GL'ers there.

i want to thank you guys for the welcome and hanging. i really enjoyed the show. melodee and i stumbled across the Jazz Jubilee in Old Sac once we left the show and spent the rest of the day hanging there. Very cool place.

[zen]

btw, here is one pic of the fasty. more pics to come in the coverage.