The Cal-look Lounge

VW-OPEN saturday 22.05.2010 at  Kiikala-airfield, Finland. Friday free camping + SAUNA + evening tests. Saturday 1/4 mile, engineblow,swapmeet etc. After doing 10 years of this event it would be nice to see more foreign visitors there... Norwegians has been there several times, Russians every year, interesting to see when the first Swedish or Englismen comes...?    :D

More info etc   info@kuplapaja.com     










 

Wow, 2500Km via France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and then ferry to Finland :o
That's nearly twice as far as driving to SCC :o One way only!!!

Didn't know the russians do drag racing as well, guess you just don't hear about it. What cars do they bring?

Frank

This is a very nice event who needs more attention! Went there this year for the first time and had a great weekend!!  ;D The plan is to go next year also, bringing my Ghia and the SCC bus with Johnny`s 58 (i hope) on trailer.
Definitely needs more Scandinavians, so come on guys!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSPM4tYTUQ

Just from logistics point of view..

Don't know whereabouts in UK you're located but, since you mentioned France, maybe you touch the mainland Europe soil at Calais..

So, based on maps.google.com from Calais, France to Gardermoen, Norway is 1723 km. From Calais to Stockholm, Sweden is 1729 km.

Overnight (aka "drilling platform") ferry from Stockholm, either to Turku or Helsinki and you're around 90 km away from the event in either of the cities.

So 90 kilometres more than SCC plus the ferry ;)

Or you can take the ferry from Travemünde to Helsinki:
http://www.ferrycenter.fi/index.php?1521

Awesome event with the famous Scandinavian hospitality! And Berger says I´ll have to bring my car next time, so...  ;)

And on Friday, a day before VW Open there will a Slugs dyno day event with a barbeque, located just on the way from Helsinki to VW Open.

All foreign visitors arriving on Thursday will get a complimentary garage tour at the Slugs garage, Helsinki street cruising in fast vws and of course plenty of beers + a place to crash at the garage. Now is that enough of a deal I ask you?  8)

Valtteri

Will the WWF stars be there?? (Wild Wrestlers of Finland ) I ask because I heard that one of them recently sustained a career ending shoulder injury while attempting to turn off the dome light in his Super Beetle, from the passenger side.

Suggestion for t-shirts:
Front, "It's all about the amplitude..."
Back, "...VW-Open 2010."

--Eric
  ;D

Hmmm??? ;D ;D ;D

I`m coming - of course.

If anyone got a spare seat I will join them, if not I will jump on a plane.

Best rgs
Kalle

You too know the fury of the WWF, Jaakko... ;D ;) ;D

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Spring_2009/IMG_0229.jpg) (http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Finland/Spring_2009/IMG_0229.jpg)


Kalle, can you ask your pilot to fly south a bit, and pick me up?

I'm sure that this'll be a great event, and much fun for all involved!
--Eric

Hahaa! I knew it! The Fury is always present! But as you might see, I´m not on the ground.... ;D ;)
Jaakko

Hey Eric! If you want to spread the gospel of The Amplitude in that Lone Star State of yours, just give us your home address and we'll send one amplitude device your way!

Hmmm, I think I've seen these cars somewhere around Helsinki... (and near Oslo too!)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Norway/6_SCC2009/IMG_4087.jpg)

(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f346/57hotrodvw/Norway/6_SCC2009/IMG_4108.jpg)

Frank if you need a passenger and some fuel money cont me in :D

Jiihaa!
This is the first time that I see proof that my car lifts the front tires!
It never happened before and I have only had this car since 1978. I made my first 11 sec pass in 1985 with the same car.

Great picture, thank´s Eric.

Kotten

Who owns the pearl white panel on Fuchs in that video and the picture above? I would really appreciate seeing some pictures of it if possible.

The Official Poster ;D

see you ther boys

Two days of VW-events in Finland : 21.5. friday Slugs-dynoday, 22.5. saturday VW-OPEN

Come here and see/feel the difference of these Finnnish happenings!

Is this the year when the first Swedish will come to Finland? We have had here Russians, Norwegians, USA-guy...

Some reasons to visit these Finlands VW-happenings:

-we have cheaper beer than i Norway
-we have more beetles than in Russia
-we have more snow than in California
-we have here more Suomi-sisu than in Sweden
 
Think about these...


 ;)Jussi

866KM one way and a ferry ride is a bit to far away for me, maybe another year  ;)

Bringing this one to the top, who else from the Lounge will show up? The SCC bus is ready!

I will be there and also at Dyno Day on friday. Kepajake is bringing his ´66 to dyno and ,from there we´ll take a drive to Kiikala for the friday night. So i guess we´ll be seeing next weekend. Too bad i have to leave Ghia at home this time, because i´m walking with crutches for this week... ::) Tried some soccer last weekend for the first time this summer and WHAMMY... broke a ligament from my ankle. :D

(http://www.fmi.fi/img/saa/paikallissaa/gram_5d_fi_Salo_2010051915_2010051906.gif)
Here´s the current weatherforecast for the upcoming weekend that has been taken from the Kiikala airfields weatherstation. It seems that we´re going to get a nice & warm saturday at the track.  ;D

And here is the link (http://www.fmi.fi/saa/paikalli.html?Keywords=&station=2777&param=4&map=1&place=Salo). La = saturday.

Only two days to go... -are you ready?

 ;)

But what about these?

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I'll leave it to attendees to decide whether they're a positive or negative... ;D

Eric, you still haven't sent us your home address. We will send you an amplitude device of your own! That way you can "identify" people around you better!

the famous Slug love

what is the address if we want to plug it into the sat nav. Kiikala airfeild on Google maps comes up with Noratel Finland Oy in Salo.

Is it a case of driving out of Hel down the Turku Motorway towards Salo and turn right after you have passed the 1,897,737 tree.  ;)

The address would be

Oinasjärventie 450
25390 Salo, Suomi

br,
Aki

Kiittos mate, throw another log on the kiuas and have a beer on me. If I would have said it would have been 24 deg C for a week and no snow 3 weeks ago people would have looked at me oddly  :D

some photos from open

(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/fredy_66/vw-open2010/DSCN1392.jpg)

(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/fredy_66/vw-open2010/DSCN1416.jpg)

(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/fredy_66/vw-open2010/DSCN1417.jpg)

(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/fredy_66/vw-open2010/DSCN1418.jpg)

(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/fredy_66/vw-open2010/DSCN1419.jpg)

(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/fredy_66/vw-open2010/DSCN1420.jpg)


more
http://s89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/fredy_66/vw-open2010/

Here´s some pictures of the cars ;)

I drove my new PB:
12,766@172,25 with a bad 60ft:1,933.

Had a great time at the dynosession, with the SCC-crew at the cottage and at Jussi´s place.
Drove 500km with a 12 sec beetle and my car didn´t miss a beat. I´m a very happy man.

-tOmi aka Heebah-

Tomi this is a video of your quickest pass. Not the best quality I know.  ???
But somehow I like aged effect of the faded pinky colors on the right handside that you get with photos that you have left in the sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQt5ornups (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQt5ornups)

Thanks mate!


-t-

Tomi - I'll bet that your 60' times would really drop if you'd get rid of the 165s... ;)

Congrats on the the new personal best!

Where are the pics of Marco's Super Duper Super and Vatteri's split with the studly studs??

Thanks dude.

Yeah, 165´s are too skinny ;D

I´ve managed to pull 1,64 60´s at Alastaro race track but Kiikala is an airfield - like a road.

Uuhmmmm... about Slugs cars... I think they have concentrated on drinking rather than working on their cars... except for our Norways gift to Finland - Freddy and his 65. A nice ride for such a tight budget. Check it out:
http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,11424.msg190652.html#msg190652

-tOmi-

thanks man

Slugs are drinkers not builders.
where is my beer now ??

Did you look under the huge box of bottle caps in the "club house" in the Slug carage? ;D

now days we are drinking from cans  ;D