Waterfest, the novel chapter

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

I just got back from Waterfest last night, after a 7 day detour to
North Carolina's Outer Banks. As usual Waterfest did not disappoint,
and as always, the Scirocco folk had a great time watching the
youngsters doing crazy shit in much newer cars.

My gorgeous green Mk1 (which is for sale) got me to hotel # 2 on
Friday in 2 hours thanks to NJ rush hour traffic, even though it
should have taken 1 hour. During a beer stop along the way I ran into
the new owner of Glen Stile's '79 Scirocco
<http://www.mk1scirocco.com/glen.htm>, he was driving a bunny truck at
the time. Let's all sing "it's a small world after all...".

Hotel # 2 had a good much of .org'ers (Jan, Brett, Frank, Sara, Jason
A., Ben, Anson, Peter, Peter's friend, and Jason C. & Mark for a short
period) and plenty of morons to entertain us. Highlights include
someone shitting in the pool, some nice bikini clad trim, burnouts,
cops, burnouts, cops, more cops, and lots of alcohol. Rumor has it
that the Canadians were all in Hotel # 1, but alcohol + a completely
illegal car + laziness prevented me from visiting.

Unfortunately my sit down drinking session with Brett/Frank on Friday
night delayed my Saturday appearance until 3:00 PM. But after a
somewhat-full recovery I was back out watching the escalating mayhem.
I quickly learned to hate anyone on tiny tiny little motor bikes!
Grrr... However, feeding me (thanks for the pizza Jason) calmed me
down in order to watch the night's festivities.

After a few burnout/cop sessions and hiding in Frank Ralph Drinkalot's
new 105? F trailer it was time for me to leave for vacation.
Unfortunately I had to trade in one mini-vacation (Waterfest) for
another (OBX), but not until I revealed to Ben Harder the 3 day long
practical joke that Anson and I were playing on him ;-) (you can't buy
$195/bottle beer without a name made by Nazis exiled in Cuba in
Windsor, ON as far as I can tell).

On my way home, I passed by the Ramada on Route 1 (near Scott Williams
parent's house) - it had more cops at it then VWs, and a low flying
police helicopter with a very bright spotlight. Got to love WF!

As for having .org folks stay at a non-WF endorsed hotel, NO WAY!
While it would be terrific to have all the Scirocco folk together at
one hotel, not having young drunken morons to watch would be quite
disappointing.

-Marc

'81 VW Mk1 Scirocco             Philadelphia, PA
'84 VW GTI Bunny Truck          marc@getty.net
'02 MB C230 Kompressor          AIM: DaMarcDaMarc
 

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Subject: Waterfest, the novel

Well, you knew there was going to be a lengthy post from me about ?the
Fest?, which was this past weekend in New Jersey for those that don?t
know. So let?s split it into chapters: That way you can delete/skim as
you wish.
Chapter One: THE PREPARATION: We traveled in three cars, My son?s
slammed
87 Jetta ?on air?(the Valdez), my 1987 16V Rocco (the headache) and my
99 TDI New Beetle (the punchbug). The bug got an oil change, and the
rocc got tune up items, in hopes of finding missing power. And it has
its new fuel tank, courtesy of VW. And it still smells, and is just as
erratic in its power delivery, but it idles great now thanks to10' of
new vacuum line, new plugs/clean air filter/new cap and rotor/new fuel
filter. Of course this was all done when relatives were visiting, so
there?s the family /car juggling act to deal with. The last work was
done at 5 am Saturday, prior to the trip. Sounds typical, eh? The
Valdez rolled the day before us, so it was a caravan of two, with no
surprises, except that the sun shone all the way down. Klaus stayed
home with his awesome newfound power and his bad brakes.

Chapter Two: DRIVING IN JERSEY: I am convinced that there are three
types of drivers in Jersey, crazed lunatics, total incompetents, and
drunken crazed lunatics driving semis.. Well, then there are us
tourists. I only had my brakes locked up once, but had three separate
Volvo rigs nearly end my life, those guys are insane. And then there
are the friggin Jersey barriers. You have to turn left from the right
lane (WTF??) in most places, and merge from city streets into 50mph+
traffic. Not a problem on the headache, somewhat more of a concern in
the TDI. So you?d see the hotel on the left and drive five miles past
it to make a U turn from the right lane to get back. This is normal.

Chapter Three: PUTTING THE WATER INTO WATERFEST: We all know that the
water part is for watercooled, but actually it?s always been about the
need to build a mode of transport measured in cubits and stocked with
pairs of each species and Bilblical proportion rain. This year?s event
didn?t disappoint. . So I was delighted to share a shower with a whole
bunch of Rocco guys, I?m such a loose woman. Jan, it was a true
pleasure, but don? t tell your wife. Perks of the big sky dump
included putting us drag racers out of our misery for the day (after
two time trials) and the guys seemed to enjoy the gals in  thin white
T shirts for some unknown reason. I felt bad for the show guys,
detailing your car to have it drizzled on all day sucks. Sounds like
the Grassroots car suffered axle failure on the strip at the hands of
Mr VanSprewenberg, and Peter was in the pits too, but just for the
great parking, It IS worth the extra 15 bucks to park so near the
action. Of course we had the required family moment on the way home
following downpour #2 on Monday, where steam poured out of the Valdez
and we had a group hug ( NOT) on the shoulder. Deja vu.

Chapter Four: THE HOTELS: Here is the true heart of the Waterfest
experience, it is right out of ?the Fast and the Fundamentally lacking
in sense?. There were the usual elements- lots of rubber smoke,
hanging out and drinking in the parking lot, babysitting by the local
cops, all that good stuff. And the cars, lots of them to see. And the
bullshit to go with them. Excellent! I ran into the Canuck faction
first (TMB and the VWoT crew), followed by Scirocco types, like Mark,
Ben, Anson, Scott Williams (who I hadn?t seen in ages, he looked great
and had his rally car with him), and a bunch more. Dan Savateri
(spelling help here please?) and I had a nice spirited run over from
hotel 4, and it was fun to drive with another Rocc, (He?s got a
gorgeous black 16V) I hadn?t done that in , well, lessee, oh, a
week...The Hilton didn?t look too burnout friendly, and I heard that
Hotel 2 was run by the gestapo and had a mad crapper running loose, no
pun intended. We stayed at the Sierra Suites and I think this should
be the official Scirocco org hotel, that way we?re all in one place.
Oh, I forgot that one Mr. Cammisa showed up in his Granny?s Nissan
sedan. Now what?s with that? ( I bet it was returned to granny with a
bit less carbon buildup) The big fun was when the lot had about 6 cop
cars in it, and some ricers decided to do burnouts in the Walmart lot
that adjoined the hotel lot. Too much fun to watch the cops roll out
and the ricers evaporate. I?m sure each has their own experience to
share. Add it in.

Chapter Five: WATERFEST!! The show was great, lots to see and buy, and
way too much to absorb. I shared the staging lanes with a 1.6 TD that
ran 15.7 in the quarter, and there were wonderful turbo wheeshes all
around. The V8 New Beetle wasn?t running unfortunately, but it was
quite the conversion, I think I need one. It was a straight line car.
You name it , it was there. Denny met the guy who ice races a Rocco up
here, he had a Golf I believe in the drags. Anyway, it?s not Cincy,
but it is good entertainment. I didn?t hear all the awards, so maybe
someone could post the results. I missed the cars of old, Brett?s and
Jim?s are both in storage, Cammisa?s is also vying for the title
Valdez, so was banished to the garage, Josh and Riche?s are gone.
Jan?s gorgeous stock 16V and Paul?s white beauty were there though,
and several new ones belonging to non listers. We?ll recruit them.

Anyway, that?s my little novel, hope it didn?t put you to sleep! And
we need to co-ordinate our efforts better next year, everyone was all
over the place!
Cathy

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