Hi Guys
Thanks to everyone for coming and making it a great weekend. Over 60 vansand beetles (plus 1 and a half Ghias) were here over the weekend, that's afantastic effort. A big Thank you to Jackie's Mum and Dad for the use of thearena and massive thank you to Jackie for practically organising the wholething. If you haven't guessed I'm not a public speaker and still havenightmares from being a best man 10 years ago and since Jackie does it for aliving, she always gets the job of handing out the prizes and speaches. Welldone to all the winners. A big thank you also to Brian for being a great DJ onSaturday night and to Irina for her artwork vouchers. We received 117 euro inthe donations box which we'll pass on to our local Cancer Research Charity,many thanks. A thankyou to Shane Best for the T shirts and too our judges Declan and Brian, its a hard job but someone has to do it. I think they they did a great job with geat choices. As Declan said, the standard is raising every year with some fantastic looking van's and Beetles. Once again a big thankyou and lets hope next year its even bigger and better.
Prize Winners
Best Original Vehicle Winner was Aine Ryan from Tipperary with the 1300Green Beetle (1971)
Runner up was Noel Magee from Meath with the Beige/Cream Early Westy (1977)
Best Modified Vehicle Winner was David Brennan from Carlow with the GreenBeetle (1973)
Runner up was Ross Kelly from Dublin with the 1303S Yellow Beetle (1974)
The peoples Choice Winner was Ollie O' Halloran with the Green & CreamDevon Bay (1979) with 8 votes
Runners-Up
Donal & Theresa Dollery from Limerick with the Green Bay (1971) with 7votes
Ross Kelly with the Yellow Beetle with 6 votes
Brian Lacey from Wexford with the Black & Cream T4 (2001) with 5 votes
Graham Young from Wicklow with the Blue & White Panel Splitty (1958)with 5 votes
Ger O' Brien from Kildare with the Gold 1300 Beetle (1973) with 5 votes
Paul Lawler from Kildare with the Purple & Cream Early Bay (1971) with 4votes
