PLANNING THE KARMANN VISIT 17th-20th of AUGUST - (was: Retro Cars 02/2006)

[Doug Teulie]

(Tempest)--->"""I suppose Dirk would want a version where the Mk2 is replaced by a Hornstein.""""

I know that Dirk like black Sciroccos. I made a quick black cat and Hornstein for Dirk!

[Doug Teulie]

The German Sciroccoforum’s 7th birthday party at Karmann is August 17-20th 2006.

Thursday, 17th of August
Nürburgring Pre Karmann meet.
Sciroccos will be on the ring between 17:15 and 19:30.
It would be great if we could all stay in the same hotel Thursday evening

Friday morning 18th of August
Convoy up to Osnabrück from the Nürburgring ring

Friday
Karmann museum
groups of 30.The Osnabrück factory was where all the type 53s (Roccos and Rados) were built. The museum displays several design studies and prototypes of Corrado cabrio, and hand-selected Sciroccos.


Friday evening and Saturday (Friday 18th till Sunday 20th August)
Big BBQ on a nearby camping site.
Friday evening: set up the camping site for 2 nights stay.
Saturday there is a full program.


German beer
BBQ:
Grilled sausage
Steak
Sides
Soft drinks, water, tea
On-site pools and showers

[Doug Teulie]

At Dirk:
Please say hello to Tina : )

Question at Doug from Dirk:
""""You have posted a schedule for the meeting above.
I am wondering where you have that information from, as the official program for the meeting is not yet released?!""""

At Dirk:
This is what we got from all the unofficial information off the web. The real official program is not yet released as you say. MR. Tempest has been working on some UK folks to join but the UK-ers are slow to join. The information I posted is incomplete and unofficial for sure!!!! At me for posting too soon. You may delete and mis information. Kathy keeps asking me what is going on....... (Did you see the song?)

Question at Doug from Dirk:
""""Have you booked a hotel near the campground already or should I manage that for you ( together with Martin from the Osnabrueck organization team ) ?"""""

At Dirk:
We have one room at Ibis/Accor Hotels in Osnabrueck. I am not sure that this is the same as Osnabrück? Hotel Tel: (+49)541/4090 Blumenhaller Weg 152. Kathy booked it just so she can now sleep knowing she has a place. I have now way to know if this is a good place to stay.

At Doug from Dirk:
""""In case you are interested, we will surely visit the other car museum in Melle near Osnabrueck too, where a lot of very interesting cars are located and where I will leave my Hornstein for being displayed over the winter months. The last two times we have made a Scirocco convoi to drive there..."""

At Dirk:
I would love to see any museum cars and even dents taken out of Sciroccos. ""Not that important for people arriving by plane """ I wish I could drive my car to Karmann ...... The one thing I want to see most is the Karmann museum. This has been my dream for 26 years. I would like to learn as much as possible about Karmann. Just to stand at the gate is good for me. This is the place that so many things of mine came from. I have rebuilt a Scirocco near 100% my self. Karmann built all Sciroccos. This is a very big deal for me just to see the place my car came from.

I have a movie to bring. I will send it to you first for review. It has 2000 Roadstar and many Californian folks in it. It moves fast and has party music.

And yes the convertible drawing was a rush job. I knew it was not up to standards but it was fun to post. As you can see I was thinking about you (black cars!).

[Tempest]

@ Doug:
>The information I posted is incomplete and unofficial for sure!!!!

That's OK, as your info till Friday including Firday aftrenoon is pretty spot on anyway (most of which is under our own control ). The Karmann museum visit is very very likely to happen (assume it's going to happen). What won't happen is another factory tour, as Karmann will have had to lay off about 1000 employees the month before

I'll see whether we can influence what cars will be on display on the day we're admitted to the museum. My mates and I (and I'm sure some others) are dying to see the one remaining 16V G60 Corrado that's sitting in the basement beneath the museum (albeit that it's trashed during a test drive on the Karmann test track in Papenburg - they only ever made 5 !).

@ Dirk:
>I havn`t seen a pool on site , but the sanitary equipment there is nice and tidy.

There was a pool at the camping site that we used during the last 2 years, as my GB-mates made use of it last year - very nice it was indeed, or so they told me.

This year we're likely to be at a different camp site (more of a sports field) in the nearby Ibbenbüren, to keep costs down and for some other reasons.

@ Doug:
>Osnabrueck. I am not sure that this is the same as Osnabrück?
Yes, it is.

>I have now way to know if this is a good place to stay.
Yes, the Ibis hotels are of a good standard, comparable to the better Holiday Inn branches in the States (where my parents and I had to once live for 2 months till my parents had found a house, such were the joys of living in the construction engineering world, where you constantly had to move around the globe).

My mates and I can't afford Ibis (we own Corrados after all ), so we're taking the Formule 1 hotel for Wednesday onto Thursday night (before we turn up at the Ring), which is also part of the Accor group, but much cheaper (€36 for a double room).

> I would like to learn as much as possible about Karmann

I'll bring some books on Karmann for you to peruse during the meet

>I made a quick black cat and Hornstein for Dirk!

Not bad at all. I'm wondering whether I could be cheeky enough to ask you to replace the Mk1 in the above Karmann-meet logo with my Mk1. What's the difference, you say? Well, it's got some flared arches, bit of a body kit front and back, which is why folks like Dirk "lovingly" call it my Yoghurt-pot (too much plastic for some, apparently ).

Tempest

[sciroccokartei]

Doug, you are the greatest Scirocco painter I ever seen. Respect!

I hope you will have many people in front of you at your Post station! )))))

[Doug Teulie]

I do not want to get too far off topic (now that we have changed to Karmann) and I goofed up at 2AM my time by posting a poor incomplete and unofficial schedule. (Doug is in the dog house ) )

(sciroccokartei)""""Doug, you are the greatest Scirocco painter I ever seen.""

Doug ----> It just the love of the Scirocco. Thank you. I like to see Scirocco folks happy.

(Tempest)" which is why folks like Dirk "lovingly" call it my Yoghurt-pot."""

Doug ----> Is this the car they call Yoghurt-pot???
This is a fast drawing for you. I like all body kits but for me I only have the front air dam like Dirk's cars. I think I can make a side view for you!

[Doug Teulie]

This song! The only song! the one and only............. Scirocco Song!!!!!

(Thank you for letting me out of the dog house) )

[Doug Teulie]

The song is so small you can not see it....

And...........
Thank you for the German lesson. I like this lesson. : )
I have so much to learn.

[Tempest]

@ Doug:
>This is a fast drawing for you. I like all body kits but for me I only have the front air dam like Dirk's cars. I think I can make a side view for you!

Gosh, amazing, that you can just knock 'm out that quickly

Mind you, apart from the front and rear skirts/bumpers, only the arches are flared, there is no bodykit stuff along the sides of my Mk1, thus preserving the original round shape of the Mk1. That in combination with the flared arches just gives it such an aggressive stance. Well, I think so anyway

>"ü" can be replaced with "ue",
"ö" with"oe" "
"ä" with "ae"
"ß" with "ss"

Or, if you really want to get dirty (as I, too, use a US-keyboard, can't stand the German keyboard, not even when I lived in Germany, as they swap the Z and Y, gets me everytime, which isn't quite as bad as the French keyboard, which is a complete catastrophe ), try using the numerical keypad on your keyboard as follows:

ü: ALT + 0252
ö: ALT + 0246
ä: ALT + 228
Ü: ALT + 0220
Ä: ALT + 0196
Ö: ALT + 0214
ß: ALT + 0223

>the one and only............. Scirocco Song!!!!!

Yes, as it's sung (when we're drunk, of course) at the Roadstar meet in the Netherlands, and also at the last 2 Karmann / Forum-birthday meets

Tempest

[Doug Teulie]

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