European Bug-In Up-Date

[deano]

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.

[bathing ape]

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

[jick]

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

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

[bathing ape]

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

[deano]

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.

[Turtle001]

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

[bathing ape]

some great cars on there

[speedwell]

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  ; 

[speedwell]

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

[Frank LUX]

Ron did an 11.4 in the Pink Panther...

Frank

[Randy Jewell]

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

Andy

[Lids]

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.

[deano]

More EBI photos posted here....

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

[Shubee2 (DSK)]

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

[Andi/DFL]

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

[WCB Hitler's Hot Rod]

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

 

[Ole]

Ron did an 11.4 in the Pink Panther...

Frank

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

[cal-look.net]

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

[Lee.C]

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 

[benssp]

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

[Liou]

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 !!

[nicolas]

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...  )

thanks to everyone for this to happen.

[Flat-Sixx]

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!!

[Eddie DVK]

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

[H67bug]

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

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

Pics to follow

[Udo]

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

[Mauro Cattan]

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



Ciao
Mauro

[IP359]

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

[lowfastbus]

Soo nice to have been a part off this event!!!
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

[Fastbrit]

MY BEST VW EVENT EVER! 
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.