Events

The Last Edition Beetle Register actually made it to a show in 2022, after that interminable COVID-19 hiatus. As so often before, we organised a club display pitch at the Stanford Hall VW show in May - the first one since 2019. Our cars always look good in a group. Where two or three are gathered together, it counts as a display, but we managed a very eye-catching seven on this occasion.

Here are a few photos from the day. Attendance was noticeably down on the happy years immediately before the plague, but people are understandably pacing their return to normal life. The weather was a bit so-so too, though it mostly stayed dry. For all that it was still a very good show. Because the site is flat and wraps round three sides of the manor house, it's difficult to show the size of the event in photos, but it's a whopper.

LEB club display


Around the show

Among the club stands, we were pleased to see such a strong showing from the Marathon Beetle Owners Group. We've often been on adjacent pitches in bygone years, and the single-model displays look really good together.

John Kinley was appalled to find his annual pilgrimage to admire Percy Pilcher's flying machine thwarted by a locked door. We can't be too careful when it comes to coronavirus germs, can we ? He had to settle for a photo through the window.


A reunion

Besides our current Register members, we were very happy to welcome Bob and Joan, who'd bought LEB number 250 new in 1977. They only had their Beetle for a few months as the offside front was damaged in an accident, and subsequently suffered an inept repair. It's a long and sorry saga, but the consequences of that bodge afflicted the car till it was fully restored many years later. They discovered the LEB Register last year, and came to the show to meet us. This was this first time they'd seen their old car for 45 years.

Tatton Park in the 1990s

The biggest lineups of LEBs we ever achieved were at Tatton Park in 1993 and 1995. Of course, the cars were a lot newer then, but we think our displays are still pretty impressive 30 years later.