Caravan to the Madera VW Show 4/28/13

Here is all the information, and the link to the event page on Facebook, for the caravan to the Madera VW Spring Fling on 4/28/13 that we've put together. Hope to see everyone out there!

Madera Caravan Event Page on Facebook.

Text from the event page:

Straight Up Dubs and NorCal VDubs Sacramento Chapter are pleased to announce that we are putting together a caravan to the Madera VW Spring Fling on April 28, 2013.

If you were around the VW Scene in 2006/2007 you may remember that all of the Northern California VW Clubs got together and did this for several years in a row. On several occasions we had 60+ VW's in our caravan. We are very proud to be bringing this back! This caravan will be for the entire VW Community. Both air and water-cooled Volkswagens are welcome and you do not have to be club affiliated to participate.

-Event details are as follows:

Caravan begins:
4:00 a.m. meet / 4:15 a.m. departure from Bugformance Sacramento, located at 1620 El Camino Avenue in Sacramento.

Caravan Stop #1:
5:00 a.m. meet / 5:15 a.m. departure from Unocal 76 Gas Station just off of Highway 99 at the Kettleman Lane Exit in Lodi.

Caravan Stop #2:
Approx. 6:15 a.m. meet / departing 15 minutes after arrival at Turlock Rest Stop off of Highway 99.

Caravan Ends:
Arrival at Madera County Fairgrounds for the 19th Annual VW Spring Fling at approximately 7:30 a.m.

- Caravan Rules / Additional Info:
1. No burnouts, donuts, or other reckless driving.
2. No alcohol or drug use.
3. Pick up your trash before we leave each stop.
4. When parked in a public parking lot, please refrain from blocking traffic / driveways.
5. When driving in the caravan, please follow all traffic laws. Stay in line and do not block traffic. Much of Highway 99 is only 2 lanes.
6. The pace of the caravan will be the Speed Limit or approximately 65 mph.
7. If you break down or have a problem with your VW the entire caravan will not be able to stop. We anticipate cars to be spread out over a couple of miles and it will not be safe to try and stop everyone.
8. Straight Up Dubs and NorCal VDubs are in NO WAY associated with or affiliated with the VW Spring Fling in Madera.
9. Everything you do during the course of this caravan is at your own risk. Straight Up Dubs and NorCal VDubs assume no responsibility for anything that happens. Nobody is responsible for you except you.

-Madera VW Spring Fling Official Flyer
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=481167715270089&set=a.494271467293047.1073741827.415016868551841&type=3&theater

-Got questions?
Post them to the event page here and someone will respond. Ben Sprints, Kyle Madden and Lee Stahlecker are the event contacts.

Is this the Lee that used to work at bugformance?

Sure is. Long time no see! How's it going?

Sounds good

We're working on having detailed flyers for this at the NAG Meet this coming Saturday the 13th.

Can't wait this is going to be a great event!!

Here is the flyer for the Madera Show, in case anyone is not familiar with it.

The Madera show and our caravan are just 6 DAYS AWAY! Looking forward to seeing everyone!

interesting that my post got deleted....

badfishie wrote:

interesting that my post got deleted....

Yah, I thought it was a good idea. I'm going to post it again.

For anyone that can't leave with the main group at 4am-4.30am, there is a small group of us leaving between 6am-6.30am. We can meet at Bugformance between those times and leave by 6.30.

thanks Kim

What speed will the caravan do? I'd like to join but I can only do 50-55mph towing the Eriba. Don't want to show up and then hold back the pack.

we are going to travel 55-60 but will leave Bugformance at 6:30. smaller caravan

badfishie wrote:

we are going to travel 55-60 but will leave Bugformance at 6:30. smaller caravan

You hope we get up to 55-60! Dewey is slow! LOL

I'm not sure how fast the main caravan at 4:30 am will be going, but with my little experience with caravaning, they are usually slower toward the back. Meaning the front could be doing 65, but by the time you get to the back of the pack, they are only doing 50-55.

Maybe with the big foot pedal now I can pick up another mph Kim

Okay, I'll just take the caboose spot and see if I can keep up. 55 on flat ground is no problem. I need some duel carbs for a few more hp and should be fine in the future.

youre more than welcome to join either caravan. the bigger on is leaving bugformance at 4 or 4:30 am and we are leaving at 6:30am. Hope to see you Sunday

My Madera Caravan & Show Pictures on Facebook.

Great day at the show yesterday. We had 4 vehicles there and 6 on the way back. Our caravan had no issues there or back, however we did stop to help out a group of people who were broke down on the way home and helped them get on their way home. Good day all the way around, oh and Lita won a pair of new tires

Ok, here are some of my pics.




Self portrait



My bus at the Starbucks stop!



Lita taking video!



Lita and Dewey,



Misc. pics from the show.










I don't care what you all thought of this bus, I liked it. My favorite color is purple! LOL







On the way home.




We gave Lita a ticket for parking in the Bus Stop!






The bus broke down and we stopped to help. Dropped one of the guys off at Uhaul so they could get a truck and trailor to get the bus back to Oakley.




More pics here
https://s106.photobucket.com/user/myhrdly/library/Madera%20Spring%20Fling?sort=2&page=1

Nice pics Kim! Super fun day

Had a good time. First trip of any distance for Charlotte, did ok

looks like everyone had a good time. great photos

Hey following all those buses I got 30 mpg! Woot!

So thats the key to high MPG