Rennwagens display at Tatton Park

Every year we the Rennwagens, say we're going to support our local show VW Northwest. But every year something seems to get in the way, this year was set to be a break from the norm! With Gaz Thompson (owner of the awesome Volksworld featured oval, posted on the blog earlier this month) at the helm of this years club display, things were looking good with 9 confirmed cars a week before the show, this is a rare sight to see 9 Rennwagen cars, members and prospects at one show!

The display went well. With all 9 cars turning up and James "Peachey" Cornes leaving a few Rennwagens 11's on the entry road to the show and to top things off Gaz left the show with a best in class trophy!

Click here to see Peacheys 11's

Thank you to Paul Beardmore, Steve Plant, Steve Milward, John Wallket, Jon Saxton, Dave Wain, James "Peachey" Cornes and Paul Dipple for displaying at the show. Plus a big thank you and congratulations to Gaz on organising such a great display, bring on next years event!

Rennwagens at Bug jam.

Only two members of the club attended this years event, Damo Tomes in his 2165cc powered 67 Top 20 Volksworld cover car and last years "Best Cal-look" at bug jam, Cal-looker and Neil Payne in His 2276cc powered 1964 Cal-looker.
Both members smashed there previous PB's with Damo running a 13.8 and Neil storming up the ET board with a 13.2! Things were looking good for Neil at this years event, as he also took home "Best Cal-Look"!
Congratulations to both Damo and Neil's on the PB's and show winning lookers!

CLUB CAMPING AT VWACTION

We love having friends and associates of the club along with us camping, but as with all these things it takes time and effort on the part of the club to organise these things – afterall, WITH NO CLUB THERE WOULD BE NO CLUB CAMPING. A nice way to show your appreciation would be to offer to help out in the pits over the weekend, we all need a shove from time to time and the Drag Day marquee will need putting up (and taking back down again!) and many hands make light work – so if you could all try to make yourselves available for a bit of help and support, have a word with one of the guys who is running that weekend and see what you can do to help out. In particular some help with taking the marquee down before everyone disappears on Sunday would be hugely helpful.

Rennwagen's Prospect Gaz Thompsons Oval.

When Rennwagen members hear that Gaz Thompson has got him self a new car, theres a automatic sense of excitement and buzz about the club, as Gaz's reputation for high attention to detail, fit and finish is seconded to non, as all his previous cars have all shown, including his US spec 67 (thankfully still in the club, and a personal favourite of mine), 68 multiple show winning looker and non other than the ex DKP and Keith Seume car "Bluey".

Gaz's new car is no exception to the rule, its a 1957 (56 model) Oval built by GFK member Paul Smoot in California, as a 3 owner original paint and panels car. The spec is as follows

Full body off resto, painted in a custom mix based on Ruby red.
Genuine Fuch wheels - 4.5x15 front,deep 6x15 rears.
Disc brakes front and rear.
3'inch narrowed beam
Drop spindles.
Berg locking shifter.
Full interior retrim by Raul's auto trim California,German square weave carpet, new cloth headliner, powder coated seat frames/pedal assembly/steering column, batwing steering wheel and rear pop outs.

MOTOR -
 2387cc
86mm Pauter Crank
Scat rods
Pauter cam
044 heads
Manley valves
Berg pump
Berg deep sump
Custom oil breather
48 ida's
Rancho box

With that impressive spec it comes at no surprise that this ovals a show winner, with a first in class at Bug-In 33, and a class win at the vw classic that very same year.

On that wave of success it was also Hot vw's cover car and featured,volksworld cover car and featured and finally featured in Street vw magazine of Japan!

Since then the rear ride height has been raised since those GFK days, to give it the stance of a hardcore looker, also jaycee ida air deflectors, jaycee decklid stand off, petronix coil, high power battery, new plugs.

Future plans include to fit the all important gauges, to keep an eye on that animal under the decklid, an external oil cooler and fan, to make those long journeys to the strip and back a little safer.

Gaz plans to finally to get him self on the Rennwagens ET board later this year, if not then possibly at the Rennwagens organised UK Cal-Look Drag Day early next year. So keep your eyes pealed for this awesome looker!

In its previous GFK Style

In Street Vw of Japan!

After some Rennwagens adjustments 

Beautiful custom Interior

Show and go!

The devil is in the detail.

This 2387cc Monster is sure to shake the Rennwagen ET board up a bit!

Rennwagens invade EBI 5!

 2 years ago Rennwagen members Jamie Palmer, Rich Moss and Steve Millward attended "European Bug In 4" (EBI) and returned with such stories of wonder and delight, that when this 2 yearly show came around again the rest of the Rennwagen's weren't going to miss out this time!

Attending this year would be Damo Tomes in his 2165cc powered 67 Top 20 Volksworld cover car, Cal-looker and Neil Payne in His 2276cc powered 1964 Cal-looker

 Mike Riley in his EFI 2332cc powered 1958 barn door samba, accompanied by Rich Battison, and John Walket in his 1776cc powered, 1967 split screen bus. 

Matt Lawton in his 2276cc powered 58 beetle Cal-looker accompanied by James "Peachey" Cornes.

All cars were driven the 1000mile round trip to the show and back! No trailer queens here!

Non of the Members raced at this years event, due to the weather conditions, but still had an awesome time nether the less.

The trip for Matt and Peach would start in Telford with seeing them spend Wednesday night in a hotel in Folkestone and getting the tunnel Thursday morning, arriving in Chimay that afternoon. 
 John, Mike and Rich travelled down to Dover on Wednesday night at 8pm after a last minute spark plug change for Mike before leaving Stoke-on-Trent. With the boys on the 8am boat a quick power nap was in order and then push on to Chimay!

Neil set off from Tamworth down to Folkestone on Thursday and stayed over night in a hotel. Then in the morning met up with Damo for th 6:30 train Friday morning. On the way they got stuck in heavy traffic going through Lille, the journey ended up taking them 5 hours to get from Calais to Chimay!

With the return trip having all the normal things, wrong turns, cursing at the sat nav, dodging pot holes and the insane french drivers the road trip went without a hitch for all members.

 Damo catching up on some much needed beauty sleep.

Neils awesome looker

Damo's de-chromed looker

  

Matt's Looker following the 13sec 1/4 fire bus

Mike grabbing a cream cake or two

Ron was extremely excited to finally meet the world famous "Peachey Cornes"