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30
Dec
11
From the Archive: BERG 2011
26
Jul
11
Retro Show 03-07-11
Still playing catch-up…Santa Pod, Retro Show, you know the drill.
Car of the show by a MILE.
PROS.
30
May
11
A Weekend Away From The City
Finally: More Berg Pics!
Home-brew Lotus Sunbeam is de-stroked to 2.0l and revs to 10K!
We were chatting to the owner about it and he told us he’s currently building a M5 V10 Powered Ultima GTR!
DTM enough for ya?
Genuine Zakspeed MK2 was built and raced by Zakspeed until ’89 when the current owner bought it; he’s been racing it ever since!
Bosch mechanical injection pump for dyno tuning
And finally, my dream house overlooking the hill.
Round two and I’m still on just the pics from the pits on Friday…Enjoy!
This was one of my favorite cars from the whole weekend: Clean GTE
Got Aero?
At the same time as Group H, the NSU trophy was running. I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever seen one of these cars in the flesh, so to suddenly be in a field with 10s of them was amazing.
Drink?
It’s all about the words he said. But how can I possibly put into words the epicness that was last weekend at the first round of the Berg Cup in Eschdorf: less than 36 hours, 1000 miles, 3 countries (well, 2 and a Principality), time travel, boat travel the best beer in the universe, great pizza, good times and amazing friends. That sort of scratches the surface for now, but don’t worry there is going to be a lot of coverage…a lot.
It all started at a little after 2am on Thursday night. The chariot of choice was and E39 BMW 530D Touring which was loaded up and pointed at Dover.
3 hours through the night later we hit the port, boarded up and left the white cliffs for dead.
Spotted: Brits on tour also making their way to Ze Berg.
By 3pm we were checked in, full of food and ready to rock. What we found next blew us away.
The sleepy countryside village of Eschdorf was littered with racing cars; Literally dumped up kerbs in the street where people were busy spannering away. It was totally open too and we were able to walk round and soak it all in.
After years of drooling over these cars on the net we could barely contain ourselves on seeing cars like this Polo:
There is a myth on the internet that the competitors are all very secretive about their cars, but nothing was further from the truth; everyone was happy to talk to us, open up the cars, let us shoot them and even sit in a few of them!
Right, enough chat, here’s some more of the first pics:
This guy was my hero: Record holding 750bhp AWD Porsche being set up in the street and the whole time he was wearing a Ralph Lauren Shirt and Brogues. PURE CLASS.
The attention to detail and level of prep on all the cars was amazing, I don’t usually post more than one or two pics of a car, but for this bunch I’m just going to go for it:
Nurbergring special run out of you garage? If you ever wondered what living the dream looked like, I’m pretty sure this is it:
More soon…
02
May
11
Luxemburger Queen
Yes, I’m more than a little excited; come Thursday night I’ll be packing my camera gear and heading for Dover to catch a ferry at 6am Friday morning, followed by a Euro trip to Luxemberg for to watch a round of the Berg Cup! Brace yourself for coverage!
I’ve been gagging for the sprinting season to kick off at my local track and last week it did. Except I couldn’t make it, so with some actual good weather and at least one of my cars in working condition I flew up there in the KP this morning.
I know, MGs aren’t going to set the world on fire and yes, they are still the preserve of the flat-capper, but, and I’m throwing it out there, I think they are cool. Everyone is so obsessed (myself embarrassingly included) in being fashionable, rocking the right wheels and having the freshest stickers all over their cars that I can’t help but think we’ve lost sight of what’s actually so good about cars. It was refreshing to see proper, lightweight, old skool british sports cars. No frills, just fun.
I’ll just climb off my soap box then, and show you some pics….
16
Mar
11
Ultimate Dubs 13-03-11
So, UD 2011 the place to be scene? Of course it is. It’s the first opportunity for the VW show pony elite to roll out their winter builds and the mere mortals to catch up on the latest trends for the year ahead.
Here’s a few pics.
Now don’t get me wrong, it was a nice cruise out and good to catch up with friends…but it was a bit like last year just with more Rotiform Wheels…
27
Feb
11
Race Retro – 25-27-02-11
I can almost smell March and that means show season is in the offing. First up was Race Retro; usual format and suspects present as previous years, but it’s always a laugh and a chance to play racing cars. Massive thanks to the Retro Cars & Retro Ford peoples for the magic (as always). Here’s some quick un-edited B-roll footage from the weekend, you can check the rest out in the mag.
Home for the weekend: RC & RF stand (Thanks to everyone who came down for a chat!).
My cars of the show:
This is how we get down…
