Veedubbin' in France
part I
By guif
Europe is not apart the VW world, there are
a lot of events that are worth a sight. Among the most well known we can
talk about Bad Camberg (Pre-53 cars, every four years in Germany), the
bug Jam (all kinds and drag racing VW, in Santapod, England), Chateau d'Oex
(in Switzerland mountains) and in France the SuperVW national (superVW
is the name of the french magazine organizing the meeting).
For all of you who don't live in France, this article will show what
are vw tendancies in France.
The VW move is about 15 years old around here and is animated by
several magazines (the oldest and best one is SuperVW magazine in my opinion)
and a bunch of little clubs in every towns or villages, the priority for
their members is to have fun driving, restoring, racing or modifying air-cooled
VW.
The vw is imported in France since 1949, and ten years ago it was pretty
easy to find old VW (mainly from the '60's) for very little money but as
the interest grew, the cars are getting rares and expensive, but just as
everywhere as far as I know.
The tendancies represented in an event like the SVWnat are very diverse,
50% are daily drivers in various conditions, all cars are accepted in the
fairground, and better than that the road leading to the show is closed
to any other kind of vehicle, non-vw owners are taken there by busses.
What a fun to see only VW on a little road going through the pines.
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