We have a touch down!! After a weekend in a time machine we are now back to tell the story!! Last Friday we fired up the time machine and went back to the seventies...! We found ourselves ring side to one of Europes fastest tracks... Gardermoen International Race Way! Suddenly all the cal-lookers were the hippest thing and everything felt new and fresh... the term "old-school" felt totally redundant...! We left the time gate open and little by little good people with awesome machinery started to pour into our show and shine area! After an hour or two we had an whole little city of tents... With the tents up it was time to chill out and have some beer under the starry skies, a good few hours of bench racing later some took of to join the Screwdrivers at their annual T-bar-B-Que, over at Screwdrivers farm. VW's, burgers and dash Plaques mixed with good friends from all over Europe, how could you fail to have a good time?? Friday lasted to well into Saturday for some.
Saturday was all about hanging out and watching the racing or drool over the fresh new cal-lookers/gassers, but all came to an to early stop when a biker misjudged the traction and ended up on his back. He was okay but the bike spilled all of its oil on the track. And just when that mess was cleaned up it started to rain... That meant more time to drink and eat... to some the night is a big blur... but there are some sporadic reports of Vikings with axes and stories about people stumbling over trees near the Bbq!?! It’s all typical for the era... the seventies that is. Sunday proved to be a day full of sun and drag racing! And the girls manning the SCC kiosk reports that three figure number of Norwegian waffles was consumed in the sunshine. People were also all over the new hot SCC T shirts and stickers...! With the track being what it is, its no big surprise to hear about personal bests being broken, but doing it year after year is something special. All in all the event was a monster success, and the spirits are high! There are now forces working in the background, with one GOAL, to throw the best Show/Race event in all of Scandinavia 2008, WITHOUT any v8's... the piggyback years can be over!!
Watch this space for more news on this!
For those who didn’t join us in the time warp, here are some pictures:
http://www.eurofoto.no/show_album.php?aid=1563016http://www.tangen.nu/gallery.htmlwww.heimberg.fihttp://www.vw4you.no/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=32http://bergers.no/gallery/index.php?cat=2http://juniks.org/~trond/SCC2007More pictures will come!
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