Bugfest '99
A Row of New Beetles
This was my first time going to Bugfest at Union Grove which is manily an aircooled event, but it has been going on for what seems like forever. While the orginal bug has long since been out of production, people's love for it has certainly not waned! You see all sorts of VWs at this event, pristine classic beetles, Karmann Ghias, drag racing beetles, VW trikes, dunes buggies, Baja bugs and even a few very nice late model watercooled VWs. New Dimensions brought their awesome '99 new Beetle w/ $8000 custom paint job which changed colors when you looked at it from different angles. Unfortunately my pics don't do it justice, but you'll get the general idea of what I'm talking about. Being held right at a drag strip and that fact that if you have $5 you can run your car, people were running everything and anything from VW buses to the aforementioned drag beetles to a guy w/a rusted out Grand Am. Two guys in my club brought their Golf GTI VR6s, one w/ a turbo and the other w/ a supercharger and ran them later in the day. Both put up pretty good times in the 1/4 mile, but nothing could beat the jet car some woman was driving, that thing was unreal! Besides the drag races and car show other events included a bikini contest (complete w/ skanky strippers) and a engine blowup where they were suppose to run an aircooled engine w/out oil until it blew, but the kept running out of gas, oh well...
A Row of New Beetles
This was my first time going to Bugfest at Union Grove which is manily an aircooled event, but it has been going on for what seems like forever. While the orginal bug has long since been out of production, people's love for it has certainly not waned! You see all sorts of VWs at this event, pristine classic beetles, Karmann Ghias, drag racing beetles, VW trikes, dunes buggies, Baja bugs and even a few very nice late model watercooled VWs. New Dimensions brought their awesome '99 new Beetle w/ $8000 custom paint job which changed colors when you looked at it from different angles. Unfortunately my pics don't do it justice, but you'll get the general idea of what I'm talking about. Being held right at a drag strip and that fact that if you have $5 you can run your car, people were running everything and anything from VW buses to the aforementioned drag beetles to a guy w/a rusted out Grand Am. Two guys in my club brought their Golf GTI VR6s, one w/ a turbo and the other w/ a supercharger and ran them later in the day. Both put up pretty good times in the 1/4 mile, but nothing could beat the jet car some woman was driving, that thing was unreal! Besides the drag races and car show other events included a bikini contest (complete w/ skanky strippers) and a engine blowup where they were suppose to run an aircooled engine w/out oil until it blew, but the kept running out of gas, oh well...
