The Volkswagen Club of the Philippines Car Show 2012

I’ve mentioned before how the Philippines has very healthy VW community (vwcp.org), and every year the community gets together to celebrate a perfectly good geekdom in classic car ownership. Remi and I went to this year’s annual VWCP Car Show to ogle at the various forms of VW nerditude and the eventual products of said geekdoms.

We were not disappointed. As we looked for a parking slot, we assured Subbie, Remi’s Toyota Vios that all the other cars she’ll see on the show are technically subcompact cousins from Germany). We parked, got out of the car, and suddenly, I was in the mothership. Every other car on that parking lot was a Volkswagen.

We took a walk around the lot and I classified each section in my head: the Daily Cars, the Kafer Cup Vroom Vrooms, the Hippie Buses, the Karmann Ghias, the Herbies, and the Ooooh Shiny Ones. The Daily Cars are my favorite of the bunch, simply because these cars are the ones you will see every day and frankly, isn’t it a wonder how those cars can still run perfectly well. They run better than most 40 year olds I know. 

Bili na kayo, Volks kayo dyan~! 

It looks like Mo, but not quite the same shade.

I'm sure he's not hiding Lindsay Lohan in there.

Purdy.

It's not a car... It's a Karmann Ghia.

Vroom! Vrooooom!

It's so pretty, and shiny, and pretty.

The Hippie Bus

Dune Buggy

Plus, I'm older than you are.

IT'S SO SHINY.

This is how you cultivate the 'Bug Bite' in little children. Note to self: I must get one.

Notice anything? It's an automatic.

Car Show

Universe, are you trying to tell me something?

Pretty in Pink

This has given me quite the idea.

I missed seeing Bacchus (Kuya Clark's orange bug, my inspiration for what Mo could look like in the future) and Hershey, their Volksrod. Still, it was a fun Sunday afternoon.