Local VW Show in Shrewsbury, MA - Sat Aug 7th - Heberts Candy Mansion

For anyone in the Northeast area, you might be interested to check out the annual VolksVair Fair, Saturday August 7th. It's helad on the grounds of the Heberts Candy Mansion Rt. 20 in Shrewsbury, MA.

Open to any Air-Cooled VW and brings 75-100 VW based cars together and the same amount of Corvairs.

A seperate Kit Car class usually includes Speedsters, Spyders, Bradley GT and others.

The Dune Buggy class can house 20-30 cars alone.

More information can be found at

www.the-bug-club.com

Bob:

Planning on being there, weather permitting (I am topless). In the process of installing a full flow/cooler system but that shouldn't stop me. May also have it lowered a bit before I get there, too.

Any thoughts of making the Terryville, CT show in August?

gn

Gordon, I honestly don't make it to many shows anymore. This year was different, I made it to the Knotts Berry and Carlisle events, both for the first time and as a tourist, not with a car.

I assist with running the Heberts show, but that's it for the rest of the year, I think?.

Hope to see you there - Bob

Bump!

If anyone from the area is interested in meeting up before the show starts to head over as a group, let me know. I live less than four miles from the mansion.

I think it's only Dad and Bob, but if anyone else feels like venturing up, let me know!

Chris

Hi Gordon,

What and When is the Terryville CT show in August. Its close enough to home that the wife might be okay to letting me go.

M

I heard about it from Team Evil when I dropped of spome bumpers I sold him, and then found out it's a BIG deal. Here's the poop:

Terryville Show
August 22nd - Sunday (Terryville, Connecticut) 13th Annual Connecticut Bug A Fair, sponsored by: Terryville Lions Club. Event times: 9am to 3pm. Awards at 3:30. Location: Scott Road, Terryville, Connecticut. Registration fees: $6 for spectators $6 to enter showcars $12 car and driver. Chuck Pisconski, 860-283-5256. VWsplitman@aol.com. All VW car show and swap meet to be held at the Terryville Fairgrounds, in Terryville, CT from 9am to 3pm. Event has an engine blow, swap meet, and food vendors. Camping on Sat night. Over 300 VWs last year. Proceeds to charity.

Thinking of making the trip, Speedy and all if the oil cooler's done by then :)

gn

Hey you Speedster/Spyder owners in the Northeast!

If you've been reading about Knott's on the West Coast and Carlisle on the East Coast and haven't been able to make either one, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO DO A SHOW!!!!

Saturday, August 7th at Hebert's Candy Mansion in Shrewsbury, Mass is the place to be. Hebert's is on Rt. 20, about 2 miles West of the intersection of rts. 9 and 20, or, if you're coming from the West it's STILL on Rt. 20 (in the same spot, even) about 5 miles East from Exit 11 on the Mass Pike. (I-90) (1 mile East of the intersection of Rts. 20 and 140)

This will be about the biggest Corvair/Volkswagen show of the Summer for Massachusetts, and is held at one of the nicest places in the state, Heberts Mansion! LOTS of the best Gourmet candy on the face of the Earth, as well as a gut-bustin Ice Cream and Sunday bar. They also have "real" food there - none of this "Atkins Certified" stuff for us! NO! REAL Burgers and fries!!

I'm doing my damndest to get my car back on the road and be there, and I know Team Evil is planning on being there, as well as "Boston Bob" with his Speedster. How many others can we get there?

I know this may be getting down to the wire, but I would like to see this become a mini-Carlisle and that Speedsterowners.com again makes it's presence known as THE coolest group of Speedster enthusiasts around.

We're getting more and more Speedsters in the New England area, and we've all been grumping that we've not yet become a cohesive group (other than on this forum) so here's our chance to get together!

If you would like to get together either before or after the show, we can do that at Chris Nichols' house, about a 10 minute ride from the show. He also has one of the best equipped shops in New England if anyone needs any quick repairs either coming or going.

So How 'bout it? Can we get a bunch of Speedsters/Spyders there? Let's get a list going!

So far this is who we know is coming:
Gordon Nichols - 1993 CMC Speedster
Chris Nichols - Drives his Dad's car
Team Evil - 356A Coupe in the works and bunches of other VW's
"Boston Bob" - CMC Speedster and show organizer

Let's get something other than CMC's there!!!

Sign up now!

Count me in.

OH Shit U-turn wrong thred!

> Chris Nichols - Drives his Dad's car

No way - I'm taking the GSX over! I need some breakin miles on the new headgasket and clutch before I take it out to Ohio and beat the hell out of it. :)

Yeah -

Hey! All you Buckeye's that heard about Chris 460+ hp Eclipse at Carlisle and want to see it go, here's your chance!


Contact Chris for the Shootout details out there in the MidWest!

George said that he might want to go to VolksVair, depending.

We played with his car at Evil Ed's today and I mentioned it to him. We were trying to get him up to NED as well. It looks like a run to Lebanon Valley Drag Way might actually be in the works for later in the Summer, and George was eager to go!

His car is a STAR ! Black body tan interior VS and sensational ! I took tons of pic to show my wife. I 'm trying to convince her to let me cut the roof off of the 356 . . .

TC

Let me know if you convince him to go up to NED. If you do, I'll swing by to watch!

Hey!

According to Hebert's web site under "Events", the Volks/Vair show registration starts at 9am, and the show runs from 10am to 2pm (even gives youtime to get home at a decent time!)

Hoping my oil line terminations arrive tomorrow as promised, so I can get the hoses done and get this project completed before Saturday!!

Gordon