The Cal-look Lounge

I just talked to a few people with mobile phones who are at Chimay, and here is what has been happening..... Friday was cold and windy, and light rain fell throughout most of the day. Not much drag racing, only a few burn outs. But Saturday, it was, and is huge! Kobus cut off the drag racing entries at 250, and the car show topped way over 500! Today, there has been a few spells of light rain, but they have been running the drags all day. Keith Seume drove the Race Shop Ghia, Ray Shubert got both the Iguana and the John Preston's Ghia running after some problems. Larry McKenzie drove the Iguana to a low 12.... Russell is the hit of the show, with some of his "herd". Arnie was there (DKP1), as was his original '67! Dyno Don has been doing some announcements on the PA. It would appear that the turnout is huge! A lot of vendors, but not much of a swap meet (kinda muddy in places). There is a large turnout of nice cars from the U.K. So, things are doing really well at Chimay. I just wished I was there, and not here.

same for me,broken leg in 2 places spoilt my holiday!

yeah, me too,   too much work on at the moment,

lids has sent a couple of texts....says its awesome.

mike sent some texts as well,sounded like he was enjoying himself ;D

Weather on Sunday was great. Sunny and only one small light rain shower. Turnout was huge, and drag racing when on until 3:00. Ron Fleming and Keith Seume raced each other a few times, with Fleming coming out on top. Sounds like Kobus and partners really did a nice job with this event.

some pix ... http://turtle.skynetblogs.be/

some great cars on there :o

ron ran in the ebi racer &  the pink panther , he ran against keith seume in the race shop ghia an made an 11's or low 12's o can remember but here's the pictures  ;  8)

arnie ran in is old car against the komori chop top ;D n that car wad amaysing (arnie's car)  ;)

Ron did an 11.4 in the Pink Panther... ;)

Frank

Thanks to Kobus and company awesome weekend,and to the racers you got balls that track looked mad :o

Andy

i have almost 2000 pics and over 40 mins of footage, Here are two i thought I would share Mr K in the buggy (Sunday morning) and Ron and I (just to make Paul jealous)

Big up to everybody including my girlfriend who despite having a low threshold when it comes to VW's has taken some amazing pictures.

More EBI photos posted here....

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=UMDIOY6C

Looks like a Great Turn Out I never saw so Many Slammed VW's in one Place You Guys Like them Low LOL

too many impressions. will go to work now. saturday and sunday have been absolutely crazy.

Thanks for the pics. Any other pics of the bug with the blinkers in the T bars?
 
 
 

 

Ron did a 11.6, but that was still enough for KS in the Ghia... ;D

man what a weekend!

still absolutely buzzing!

Awesome work from Kobus and the EBI Crew!


will try and get my pics up on my site tonight,


Cheers,

Steve

Couldn't agree more dude it was a truely AWSOME weekend  :) :) :)

I had such an awesome time, well done to Travis on his 10! and a massive thanks to Kobus,Freddie,Boss and the rest of the guys for putting on the best VW show i've been to

Monkiboy, good meeting up with ya!

I'll stick some pics up soon ;D

It is good fine in EBI, very awesome !!
I tell you great cheer of organizations (Kobus, mike, fredo with it is team EBI)
cheer cheer cheer !!
I love see team outlawflatfour lol it is crazy 10' and 11' lol
I hope year next EBI 2 !!

it was crazy!!!

i can't imagine that it was less fun in the states!!!

i realley enjoyed it and met so much nice people, a lot from this forum.

i think this is something i will tell my grandchildren (since my 1 year old son was already there...  ;D)

thanks to everyone for this to happen.

What can you say?!   Unless you were there to actually FEEL it, it's gonna be hard to imagine thebuzz that was going on all weekend - I still can't believe just how amazing the whole event was - Thank you Kobus and the EBI team - you did it!!

What a super weekend……
Respect to the EBI crew (Kobus,Fast Freddie,CSP, Russell and those who I forget) for a superb event..
The most beautiful cal look cars where there and what a lot of race cars.. a lot of nostalgic cars and persons…..great…
Never seen so many quality cars together…. Saw a lot of the cars that I now from magazines and forums….
Racing on Saturday was the best I ever saw and kept on going till 21.30…and a deep bow for dyno don he was killing….
Man what a guy…what an energy…..


Destroyed my engine (1200 standard) getting there…after leaving my home (Rotterdam, Holland) Saturday morning made about 50 kilometers, just before the Belgian border.. my oil warning light lit and the oil pressure gauge went to zero…oh oh…. stopped the car and saw that my valve cover gasket was blown and almost all the oil was gone….replaced the gasket, had a spare with me(still leaks though).. Filled it up with oil, crossed my fingers and kept on going, keeping close eye on my pressure gauge and warning light…
Well I can tell you when the car is idling in front of a traffic light, the warning light comes on and the oil pressure drops below 0.5 bar of pressure…So I think my bearings are shot…….but hell, he made the trip to Chimay and back almost 600 kilometers… (had a little bit of sweaty palms sunday afternoon on the way back I can tell you).

At least now I have a reason to built a new, bigger and hopefully powerful engine….

But not even this can wreck this weekend….what a blast…
I am more or less speechless ……. What a show….

 

Kind Regards Edgar

Fantastic show, superb results for Travis and good show from Outlaws. ;D

Lids- you are a star with the plaque! Made me smile, thanks!

Pics to follow

Great weekend and a good job Kobus and his crew . Thanks too the swedish fans of my car, never have seen something like this. Sorry that we could not talk enough on thursday evening. I hope we can see most of them including our englisch racers at dragday in september .

Udo

I want to say only one thing.............thank you! :)



Ciao
Mauro

AMAZING meeting
AMAZING people
AMAZING cars
AMAZING weather
AMAZING spirit
AMAZING VIP
AMAZING organisation

Thanks for all guys !

See you next year ?
NO, see you next year !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

POPOPOPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Soo nice to have been a part off this event!!! ;D
Can't wait for the next one!!

It was cool meeting some of you loungers and some friends I haven't seen in a while.

Congrats to everyone that made this possible for us...
Jelle

What can I say? How can I put into words how I feel about racing the Race Shop Ghia? That is probably THE most significant VW gasser left in the world. Imagine being able to drive an original Sox & Martin Pro-Stock, or the first rear-engined Swamp Rat digger... and then adds some more dreams. Deano, I wish above all wishes that you could have been there. Like me and Bug-In 32, some things are destined not to be, I guess. But we raised a glass or three to you.

Thank you Kobus, thank you Russell, thank you Ron – I had such a ball.  :)

What a fantastic weekend, it was a great pleasure to be there.

One of the weekends you never forget........

Thank you Kobus & crew to do a great job.

Many thanks to Kobus and his crew, you all did an AWESOME job  ;D

Well done to Russell Richtea for bringing a truck load of 'old shit' (his words, not mine!) across Europe along with some top guys from back in the day, as well as warm beer to remind us of home  :D

did i really say shit !

"Deano, I wish above all wishes that you could have been there. Like me and Bug-In 32, some things are destined not to be, I guess. But we raised a glass or three to you."

Thanks Keith, Man, I was hating life at home/in the air/sleeping on the airport floor... this past four days, waiting to hear about EBI. I am so glad that the weather didn't get in the way of a great time.  Next time, I will book my flight non-stop to Europe instead of getting marooned for two days over Macho Grande.  Love the photos, especially the drag race between Fleming and Seume. I missed the biggie.

Yes you did  :D

Did you get stir fried frogs legs with your chinese like us  :o

Thank you to Kobus and the other event organisers for a fantastic show, it reminded me of DDD but with more variety and more to look at. Top work and I am sure you are all having a well deserved rest now!

Russell, well done for getting some of your collection over there, all the cars looked great.

To the racers, particularly the OFF guys, a great show of both horsepower and detail on the cars.

To the show guys, some amazing cars in cal-look corner! Particularly the DAS and DFL guys.

Finally, to my fellow club members, thanks.

Photos to follow on our blog...

I can't Believe that it's finish... I've saw so much nice cars, great runs and people I only see in magazines. Do you imagine that some cars travel across ocean to be there? 
Awesome Weekend.

please please i hope this was the first of al lot of european bug-in's  i loved it great weekend......can't get the  ;D of my face.......
kobus fred and crew thanks a lot

WOW!! What an awesome weekend!! I think that was probably the best VW show/weekend we have been too! Even though we were trading (and we did extremely well!) and didn't get to see as much racing as we'd like, it was just awesome! Dyno Don is a absolute legend and we were extremely chufted to be able to have our photo taken with him at the end. What a fantastic weekend!! Roll on EBI2!!  ;D

Wow! What an event. Cheers to Ivan for giving me a ticket and letting me test drive his car which drives sooooooooooooo nice now, Kobus and all the EBI staff for a great job, Russell for the beer, the shelter and a chance to meet all the people who were there back in the day, all the racers and the cars that were at EBI and all the JG54 a truely awesome event.

Simon.

Fantastic Show and great weekend.

God job Kobus and EBI crew,
Thanks too Russel  (Gassergarage)
looking too see you SCC Gardermoen Raceway 1-2 sep.

its was nich too meet Arnie,Ron and Dyno Don also.

Mags
Norway

If Carlsburg made VW weekends this would have been it.

1st Class all the way, Great Cars and Greater people.

only about a certain badge ;D ;D ;D Russell you are a top host,rushing round like a nutter ,and still finding time to get us a beer,,,,,top top turn out,Arnie was a legend,with a story for every mark on that lovely car,it,s all been said before but Kobus/Russ/the american legends/Ivan,DJ legend :P,and the rip of the Idas,on the Club cars,to and from the show,oh and the outlaws "garage" visible from outer space.....like the great wall of China.........Brilliant chilled weekend,won,t ever forget.............the old un

Congratulations EBI team!!! YOU PULLED IT OF!! A special thanks to Kobus and Freddy for taking so good care of us Screwdrivers!! We owe you!! I know you have had a hard weekend at times, but you have given a lot of people a HUGE boost in their enthusiasm for all things VW!!
WELL DONE!!!!

It was truly special to see all the real gassers at one place, THANKS Russel!! And the talk we had about SCC kept a smile on my face the rest of the weekend! (it still does).
One of my favorite cars of the event, when it comes to stand out in a original way, was the car of Komori. It must have been a huge thrill for him to see it standing alongside the other legendary cars in BELGIUM of all places!! A big thumb up from me!!
And how about Dyno Don!!! He MADE the event, at times I forgot to look at the racing!! That says allot!!  With his constant "pumping" of the audience and his wicked dancing  :o he was the big star of the event for me!
The racing had a incredible level so to stand out you had to really put on a show, the blue pickup and all of the Outlaw boys impressed me big-time!!
And that Convertible that did those fantastic half track burnout's, had everyone on their toes the whole weekend...!! I hear your coming to Norway and SCC again Richie, FANTASTIC NEWS!!!
For a scandinavian like me it was a blast to see Anders (Alien Bug), Jøran (Fourplay), Hans L (Absolute Folka), Petter (Oboyburken) and Johnny (JS)  fighting for the Vikings! You guys ROCK!!
The turnout of dealers was impressive but the most impressive booth must surely have been the CSP stand. THANKS for pushing the industry forward! And Johannes of JPM... you are designing the engines of tomorrow!!! Hope to see you behind the wheel of the blue 03 at SCC!!
The DFL had really put some thought into their display and we had great fun in you camp saturday night! Congratulations to Vegard with a prize for the ûber sexy cal-look Ghia!!
And Lee (Monkeyboy), that buggy is outrageously fun to ride in.... THANKS, now I want one!!!

A big thanks goes out to my trip buddies Frode, Anders, Morten Ivar, Folke, Rune and Øystein... top crew!!  

And the best of all, the weekend has recharged my batteries... and now my car might get done to next years event.... I will be back!!

Best regards
JHU

Roll on EBI 08!!


  
          

  

Hi Jon
I was looking forward to meet you there and talk to you  :(

Udo

Well, back to work today, all I can say is that EBI 1 was a blast!
As finally couldn't finish the "good" engine (thanks bugpack for those great out of round camgears!  >:( ) I wanted to make a pass just to see what the tired stock single port could do, and when I went to collect the timeslip I was told that they didn't have one due to technical problems  >:( ok, so I make another pass, and when I put third the car falls on its nose WTF?  ???  I crossed the quarter after 39.x seconds at the lightning speed of 25km/h at idle in 4th gear, it turns out that the gas pedal disintegrated so I couldn't accelerate, so I called it a day and just took lots of pictures, I didn't have the chance to meet most of you, maybe at EBI 2  ;D

Udo you have a PM!
Sorry to have missed you!

I had a killer weekend at the first EBI!!! Big thanks to the DAS for organizing an event like this, it's incredible, but you guys really made it possible! So many great like-minded people, a relaxed atmosphere, lots of excellent cars. And it was so cool to meet many loungers and people from all over the world. The weekend was almost too short to be able to realize what was going on. Only thing I missed: some sweet belgian waffles. :) Check out my first 50 pics on http://www.luftkraft.ch (http://www.luftkraft.ch)

Here you go :)