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25 years ago today I bought the cabrio, its been through a lot of changes in that time and made a little history ;). Its now ready to make some more on Hot rod drag week, this is the latest version in road section form :o ;) ;D

Looks very cool as always, never saw a roof rack on a vert before  :D

 ;D I have always had my own unique way of approaching things  ;)

Hope it doesn't rain on your trip, or maybe the cab is too fast for the rain to get in  ;)

Have a great trip!

It took me a little while to spot the new front wings, I was looking more at the roof rack and Fuchs and thinking you'd gone all resto cal on us!
Will you fit everything you need into the car or do you need a trailer too?

 ;) Rules say steel wings/fenders and must have bumpers in our class so that's what I did, didn't have any steel fronts here but Dean Kirsten had these USA spec for sale so grabbed them and gave them a quick massage and painted them

No trailer, if it doesn't fit I wont be taking it :o ;D, with running & racing it on same wheels/tyres so having no extra wheels to carry really helps room wise. Its just tools and clothes/racesuit/helmet we need really, and a few spares for stuff that might break like CVs/fuel pump/coil/oil etc and a lot of tea bags :D ;D

cheers Richie

Can you give us some more details on how the week work's? Is it point scoring and how many miles are planned? :)

Why did you not run the gas burners ?


Btw good luck, I see steve is also participating in small block power adder class

Width, front tyre is only 3.6 inches wide and is a stretch on 5.5 rim, and rear is 245 so much to wide for 5.5 rim, the Fuch are 4.5 and 7s!!!!! so much more suited to match tyres

Thanks, yes he is dong it to, will be a lot of fun for all of us 8)

cheers Richie

It starts sunday 10th September with tech, they allow a whole day for that as there are 400 cars entered :o  There is also test n tune for those that wish to try break there cars before it even starts ;D not me though ;)

We start Monday morning at the track with racing, you can do as many passes as you want to and then hand in your quickest pass of that day to organisers, they then give you the route you take to the next track which must take in 1 or 2 designated check points on the way, at the check point you have to take a picture of your car to prove you went their and then give this in or show it the next day to the organisers before you can make any passes at next track.
We do this for 5 days and your time is based on an average for all the tickets you gave in. Lowest average in each class wins[ we don't have any chance as we will be against 7 second cars but are doing it purely for the challenge and the fun of it ;D 8) ]
The drive between tracks is approx. 300-350 miles each day and we finish on Friday back at the track we started at[well hopefully ;) ]

cheers Richie

Sounds Awesome.. good luck you never know you might do better than you think.👍👍

Good LUCK Mate!!

11 years in the US and ALWAYS wanted to do DragWeek.
No chance though as I never owned a car there ;-)

The car looks super is that the very fast one or the very very very fast one 😁 best of luck on drag week

 :D Just the fast one, this is stock suspension stock floorpan version, the other one is tube chassis :)

Thanks, I think I would have gone and just spectated given the chance

Good luck Richie - cars looking sweeeet! I need to get some 245's on the back of mine

Good luck!

Good luck this sounds like an awesome week to be had


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PLEASE let me know what the whistle of the roof rack is like at 160mph!
 :D

Damn cool.

LOTS and LOTS of vids for us to watch please.
 ;D

Never thought i would say this but the gasburners look better on that car.
Normally i like fuchs wheels more.
Looking forward how it will go.

Henk!!!

good luck!

i know you have been working towards doing this a few years now, finally getting that box checked. the car looks good, have you polished it now as well  ;D
as for the end result. you say you have no chance, maybe, but maybe if the car can be consistent, the end result could be a higher ranking than what it looks like on paper  ;)

big thumbs up, have fun!!!!!

This is going to be fun to follow. 😃

You will maybe not finish first, but you sure will hurst some feelings! Enjoy the trip, have fun on the track  and stay safe! Finishing the tour is already a challenge   :D

I had Drag Week in my mind and remembered you were going to do this Richie......Car looks great and I'm sure you have things figured out.  Best of luck! This is great that you're doing this! You'll do awesome!

My best memory of your car -- -- The best exit from Nick's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjTIlbi3X8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xY7H8OU9is

Great, congrats to 25 years tire treating!
A cab with a roofrack, now that's unique. Love that pragmatic solution look thing.
I remember those DDD Bitburg gigs very well. The crowd went wild while those roof tricks happend  ;D

https://youtu.be/Dy0s2qnOoJY

Have much fun at the dragweek, happiness is a hot vw...
Best greetings, Felix

Thanks :), it took quite a lot of work to create a roofrack that would fit to the car, and make it so it releases easily and quickly at the track


Roof down wheelie :o,That was fun, even if it did surprise me when it did it :o :D

Very VERY cool Richie! Thank you for sharing. Even though I have not followed it for 25 years I have at least been lucky enough to see it in action several times.

All the best from Norway,

Kalle

Richie

My best wishes also, however I've never heard you say you have no chance.... you always have a chance, good luck and have fun.

Russell ;)

 ;D  Just finishing will be a victory for me this time  8)

Good luck you two, what a fantastic adventure, inspirational stuff.....best of luck!
Jick & Tammy

Thanks mate, hope you are both doing ok  :) Say Hi to the boss  ;D

cheers Richie

nice Richie, i have been foloowing since you first ran the NA 2332 with DTA and Jenvey 45s from JMR.

front suspension, stock width beam with spindles and adjusters? 

 :) 

Yes that's correct, CB drop spindles and koni reds still, and just one pair caster shims[ that's for those that think you need more, well at 158mph you don't  ;) ]

cheers Richie

Good luck Richie, I follow drag week every year. I have 2 cars to watch for this year, you and Prescott Phillips

Thanks, my buddy Steve Dalton is with us in his beetle as well 8) Hopefully Prescott will get in ok :)

Where are updates being posted?

Hi Rick

I will try update on here as much as possible from the road, Jo will be updating on faceache & Hot rod.com will run updates as well when it starts


cheers Richie

The whole thing is also live at youtube(?) or at hot rods own pages.

Someone probably said that before..  ::)

I like the stance. Do you run adjusters, or dropped spindle only? What tire size are you using on the porsches?

BTW cool trip, like it!

Great! Thank you.

Good luck to you & Jo

Posted on the wrong thread - sorry  :)

The beam does have adjusters in it from when I 1st got it and lowered it that way, drop spindles came later, tyres are 24.5/3.6 M&H DOT fronts and 245/55/15 M&H DOT rears

cheers Richie