The VW drag cars…

I guess the bottom line in watching the VW drag races is this:   I had no idea you could make a VW perform like I saw yesterday.    As a guy who grew up around small block Chevrolets, GTOs, and Mopars, I thought the VW thing was just sort of cute.  You know, they could make them faster, but they’d never really be fast.   Boy, was I ever wrong!

The cars I saw yesterday were nothing short of mind boggling.   I didn’t get to watch all of the racing, but I saw one VW hit 113 mph from a standing start in 1/8 mile.   And before these cars ran, they all did burnouts that were just awesome.  I had no idea.

Here’s one of the burnouts I saw.   Some of these cars actually got sideways…

Another thing I thought was impressive was watching the VWs launch.   Many of them wheelied off the line.   Wow! 

That 300mm Nikon lens sure did its job yesterday.   You can really reach out there with it.

The cars were just flat intriguing.   I guess it’s all part of being a gearhead…if it has wheels and a motor, folks are just going to fuss with the thing until it looks and performs like they want it to.   Corvettes, Ferraris, California Scooters…you know the drill.    VWs are no exception…

Wheely bars.  On a VW Beetle.   Who’d have thought? 

This fellow had a GoPro mounted on his car.   I’d sure like to see the video…

More striking VWs….these cars sure were nice.

Some of the VWs looked stock (they have different classes) and some were all out race cars. 

Here’s one that looks closer to stock…but the tires are a dead giveaway…

They even had VW station wagons racing…and this puppy was quick!

Here’s another VW drag racing video…if you can’t make out the time at the very end (on the board), this one ran 112 mph and change in just one-eighth of a mile!

That’s it for now, folks…the next set of photos will be of VW vans…another cool area with lots of eye candy!