Valla 2008 photos.

VW Spectacular 2008

Well the north coast of NSW redeemed itself after a very soggy VW Spectacular 2006. The weather was spectacular, the cars were fantastic.

The roads between Sydney and Nambucca are steadily improving, we were held up a few times by roadwork, but not a great deal.

Friday was practice day for the lap dash at Raleigh go kart track, more about the cars running later.

The nights did get a little cool and this year the “park renta cops” were coming around making everyone extinguish their fires, even ones in specially made braziers.

Saturday morning saw the street parade into Nambucca Heads led by some vintage coaches, which have aircooled V8 diesel engines. The biggest surprise on the street parade was the huge amount of Kombis of all styles and shapes, it seemed that we no sooner had we arrived than it was time to leave.

We headed back to the swap meet at Valla and then out to watch the lap dash.

Most notable among the many competitors was a new 1600 Formula Vee which was very fast and it made all, the right noises, a WRX powered fastback was having its first run on the track and the most crazy Bay window Kombi you have ever seen was also having its first run on the track as well, its powered by Mazda 20B triple rotor rotary engine, at full boost it makes 650 rwhp, the driver turned it down a bit to suit this track but it was just about wheel standing every time he was able to put his foot down around the very tight circuit.

The HellWRX notchback ruptured a fuel hose and caught fire, there were many spins and off road excursions, the most uncomfortable would have been Peter McLeod in his Porsche Spider replica, he missed a gear and ended up in a sandtrap.

Saturday night was a dinner with pirate theme with many a “where’s your buccaneers” said during the night.

Sunday was show n shine day with many new rides attending. The swap meet was well attended and ran all day.

Steve Carter