aircooled VW Gumball race 2006
 

Was held at 1st of April (last weekend).
It was a time contest on public roads, starting in the Netherlands at the last petrol station, just 100 yards from the german Autobahn border :D

The goal was to arrive as quickly as possible at the bug-shop www.beetlefactory.com which is about 135 km into germany.
As none of us were ever been there, it was alsio a sort of contest who was best in navigating/ reeding the roadmap best.

Starting time was the time slip from the store at the petrol station subtracted by the time from the receipt at the beetlefactory shop.
Winner was a 1303 with 2 liter type 4 with K-jetronic in just over 1 hour :eek: Congrats Nigel!
Considering the road works and subsequent speed restrictions underway (and some general 120km/h limits) and the time spend in finding the shop in city of Wuppertal, that is very fast!

Within this are some pics:

http://www.bug-talk.de/international...r=asc&start=15

Greetings,
Walter

The first Gumball Race was a success :cool: Big thumbs up to Maurice for organizing the event and to the guys at the Beetle Factory for looking after us and Rob for making such cool trophy's :D .
Walter the link should be www.beetle-factory.com, my japanese is not so hot ;)
I can't wait until next year and hope that a few more cars will take part...

Hmm, thanks for the correction Nigel :o

Here's a video where you can see yourself collecting the cool trophy :D

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/E...1F5EAFC390.htm

Gumball
 

It was FUN!!!!! i hope it will be back in 2007!!!!!