VolksVair Fair - Shrewsbury, MA - Saturday - August 1st, 2009

Just a reminder to the MA area people. This is a VW and Corvair based show but it does include a Kit Car Class and open to any air-cooled car.

In addition to any one of the random VW kit cars of the past, a couple of Speedsters or a Spyder or two always seems to make it.

Use this link for more information go to www.the-bug-club.com

A few of us are also planning a cruise the day before the show, Friday July 31th and will meet at the Burger King parking lot at 10AM Rt 495 and Rt 109 Milford heading up to the top of Mt Wachussets and back stopping for lunch along the way.

Hope to see you there.

Boston Bob E.

What's your route to Wachusett?? Up rt 140 all the way? If so, I could hook up at the Grafton Town Common on the way by.

I'll be there on the 1'st, for sure.

Everyone else: This show is at the Hebert Candy Mansion on RT 20 in Shrewsbury (2 miles West of the rt 9 and 20 intersection). The destination itself is pretty cool: A Huge old Victorian, field stone mansion with expansive lawns all around to park on, decent shade in places and LOTS of Ice Cream!! (not to mention the best chocolate in the World, this side of the Chocolate Tree in Beaufort).

This show has been a consistently good show for years, not in small part to the efforts of guys like Boston Bob Elliot who gives up his place on the Beach on Cape Cod every year to help run this show.

For those of you who can't make the cruise Friday, I'll be willing to map out a cruise later on Saturday in any direction you choose for something to do after the show. We can even go in the direction most of you will be taking home if that makes any sense.

how 'bout it? Meet Gordon, Pearl AND the ubiquitous "Boston Bob Elliot" and his Dune Buggy friends. Maybe we'll even see TC the FoRUm PrICk (he's been known to show up several years in a row and seems reasonably harmless).

A show AND a cruise....oh, and ICE CREAM!! What could be better????

gn

IAM PLANNIBG ON GOING TO THE SHOW NOT SURE ABOUT THE FRI CRUSE I WILL BE IN MY SPEEDSTER WEATHER PERMITTING SEE YA

Gordo, you know the route. Yes, we'll be following 140 and more than happy to meet up with you and Pearl along the way.

Still considering lunch options and possibly another stop but we're aiming to leave Milford at 10:30 and be on the top of Mt Wachussetts around noon time.

The idea of something Saturday sounds good also. All of this works if it ever stop raining around here.

Here's what I've got together as an anouncement so far on anoter site.

Bugs on the Mountain

I must have missed you guys on Friday - Got up to the route 140 intersection at 10:45am and waited until about 11:20 and didn't see any buggies so I went home.

Today (Saturday) I left the house late, around 11:30am, heading for the Volsvair show and got pulled over a mile from the house by the local constabulary for no brake lights - nothing - no matter how hard I stomped on the pedal. The cop asked if I was staying nearby (he saw my SC tags) and I told him about visiting my kids and parents for a bit. We also talked about how no one nearby knows anything about fixing these cars so I have to do all of the work myself (laid it on pretty thick, there) so, rather than write me up for faulty equipment, he escorted me back to the house by riding behind me so no one would run into me. Pretty nice thing to do, actually. I neglected to tell him that I'm usually driving fast enough to prevent anyone from getting close from behind. Thought he didn't need to know that tidbit.....

About the time I got home the skies got really dark and it poured rain for over an hour, so getting home ahead of the rain was a good thing. I might have had to bail it out like East Coast Bruce.

So in the 95 degree heat and 99% humidity, I got out my tools and a voltmeter and found that neither of my stoplight switches were putting out enough to make the lights light much more than a glimmer (about half that of the dull glow of a stock VW sedan), so I wired in a relay to the circuit, driving the relay from the MC switch and the relay powers the lights directly from the +12V buss up under the dash.

A couple hours after I got home and it's still raining off and on and I now have BRIGHT stop lights....Like, WHOA, THERE!!!

Never did make it to the show, though.

Sorry, Boston Bob!

gn