The show season in the UK is gradually heading towards a close, but we try and pack in as much as we can here in the UK, this weekend just gone being no exception.  We get to see two sides of the VW scene with this weekends shows, Edition 38 being one of the premiere show and shine events in the water cooled calendar, VW Action being a great fun aircooled weekender with drag action at Santa Pod.

Edition 38

This show brings out the finest in the UK's water cooled VWs, with many people using this as the target show for their builds.  The show and shine competition categories and numerous and cover just about every concievable VW with some specific awards for specific items like interiors or engineering.  One of the most interesting thing from this years event is the presence of the Type3Detectives, bring a bunch of air cooled flavour to the show and winning a bunch of prizes in the process, including best in show for their fantastic white Brazilia.

Of course in this day and age the pictures are online pretty much straight away, the Edition 38 forum is the first port of call for pictures and reports.

Then we are off to Flickr for some more sets :

Matt Stanton
AshManDanger
Jon Morgan

The photo above came from our man Rob's excellent set, some of which you can see on his blog entry.

VW Action

At the other end of the spectrum is the camping, fancy dress, music, drag racing, show combination that is VW Action.  Show organising vetrans Brett Hawksbee and Brian Burrows organise this mixture of frivolity and fuel at Santa Pod, they know their audience and supply a great weekend.  Whilst the camping and general entertainment is about as relaxed as it can be, the on strip action is serious as ever with top fuelers alongside the best of the UK VW scene's power houses.  This year is particularly special for Brian as he is no longer going to compete in drag racing, he went out in style, piloting a top fuel car up the strip for the first (and last) time, a dream realised.

You can read more about the show here, but you know we're all about the photos on entries like this so go and check these out :

JD Shotz

Tobes49

Speedman whose picture we used above, hope that is cool with you Steve?

Perhaps it is indicative of the style of the event that the photos available are as much of the people that attended as they are the cars

Julian Robinson provides us with a lot

So which one will you be at next year?