On the way to Ocean City my co-pilot and I had a lot of time to discuss just how great H2O could actually be. Previous coverage and instragram updates made it sound pretty great but we wanted to keep our expectations fairly realistic so we talked it down a tad to not be disappointed.
Several hours into the drive we figured we had formed reasonable expectations but the second we turned onto the strip said expectations were blown clear out of the water by the sheer number of vehicles in Ocean City MD.
Modified cars of all make and model where everywhere; parking lots, alley’s, garages, and of course the strip itself and it quickly became apparent why several people we spoke to had never actually made their way to the show.
If your goal is simply to see a heck of a lot of amazing cars then you can just pull up a chair strip side and take it all in and while we did do a lot of just that (minus the chairs), travelling all that way and not checking out one of the best VAG shows in North America seemed a little silly.
Starting from the last day of the trip and working in reverse is a bit of a weird way to cover the weekend but it seems to make the most logical sense.
Being a fan of patina Blair really liked this BeetleHe was the one that noticed these bottle caps crushed on the rain gutters. Cool ideaPersonally this was probably my favourite air cooled Beetle, it was one of the cleanest cars I’ve ever seenThis MK1 had the BBS cool fans all around… not sure I’ve seen a full set in person beforeSpeaking of seeing things, spotted the Seen It! K powered CaddyAs similar as these two cars are it’s hard to argue with this approach to the MK1Perfect fitmentI’m hoping someone can explain the story here… but for whatever reason these two trucks were damn near identicalI think the two bearded guys in the background owned them…Didn’t take too many shots of the Unix MK1 only because I took a whole lot at Eurokracy looks like the wheels changed howeverBeauty from the preview a few days agoSuper stoked to see one of spinfab.net‘s skinny RS spares in personThis was perhaps my favourite MK1 of the show if I were to pick one outSomething about the carb set-up was just so radFantastic looking Scirocco, saw it on the strip a few times as wellSuch a perfect interior for the exteriorCouple Air Society carsI’m not sure the story behind ‘dapper’ but there were a number of cars with their sticker on it this weekend and almost an equal amount of funny knock-offs…These wheels really remind me of older Cavalier wheels…This car had the look of Patina but really it was in great shapeSpotted this car pulled over on the strip he wound up with a no mirrors ticket which is pretty good considering…Epic respray colour choiceFemale owned ride from 2LO crewMore accustom to seeing heavily shaved boser builds like this coming out of EuropeNicely done yellow Golf making me eat my ‘I don’t like yellow cars’ wordsBeautiful Gottis….Love the colour of this car and what’s been done to the Bora trunk lid… great touch. As are the RF wheelsTwin turbo Golf TDIThere was snail below this one but it was hard to get a great photo of so just take my word…Golf dumped at the Air Lift Performance boothAlso at the Air Lift booth was the new-new Beetle on Boyd Coddington wheelsAs it turns out the Air Lift Performance kit on my car fits C30s perfectlyMk6 on what look to be Blonix snowflakes, still never seen a set of these in CanadaSuper clean S4TT on Rotiforms new DAI wheelsSpeaking of Rotiforms here’s a familar Porsche on their LHR wheelsIt was incredible how many people had their IG tags as stickers like @jrjamesdeanNot sure the logistics of getting a Lupo here but there’s one here nowMF Auto’s 1984 Grumman Kubvan which is one of 500 ever built and apparently 1 of 100 surviving…Prior to H2O I didn’t think I was much of a Passat wagon guy… turns out I was very, very wrongGod damn!Going to end with what will be many ‘outcasts’ in the H2O coverage this STI that somehow managed to squeak into the showLooks like it can move…
the 2 green caddys are owned by @bucknasty john buckly and his dad out of upstate,ny and the 68 fairlady is aka datsun 2000 is owned by @
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The 4wd TDI twin turbo made stanceworks today:
http://www.stanceworks.com/2013/10/the-long-way-around-mike-houcks-turbo-diesel-mkiv-vw-gti/
@timmy201 awesome turns out it’s Compound boost… interesting…
@Clint lots more to come!
Damn, I need to make this show sometime in the next couple years.
Nice coverage as usual sir
the mk6 on blonix snowflakes i actually an mk5 with mk6 front
Good eye. Trick Vag owners…
…wait am I talking about cars?
the 2 green caddys are owned by @bucknasty john buckly and his dad out of upstate,ny and the 68 fairlady is aka datsun 2000 is owned by @
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68fairlady out of nyc