Dubshed Afterthoughts: Northern Ireland's Best Car Show?

[EP3 James]

Yeah i woulda thought paintworx estate is nicer than that passat

 

[Gaz]

Was at the show on Saturday. I enjoyed it for the most part, though it did feel a bit like Groundhog day after I'd passed a lowered Golf for the 20th time - that's probably more a sign of my impending old age than anything else though. Quality of the cars was very good all round, and my personal fave was the 135i. It's 99% there and just needs the rear arches flared to complement the wider front.

Was my little boy's first trip to a car show and he thoroughly enjoyed it though

 

[ilovequo]

That Cayman looks knackered...
Don't get the lowering scene at all!

 

[Cooper]

Dubshed Winners


Mk1 Golf

Runner up: HBM 247T Roger Ashfield
Winner: LSI63 Dave Clark

Mk2 Golf

Runner up: C8 DUB Lynsey Sheridan
Winner: J265CGJ Aaron Finlay

Mk3 Golf

Runner up: M9 XVW Richie Caldwell
Winner: D6 TRX Douglas Flockhart

Mk4 Golf:
Runner up: 01 D 3649 Steven Talbot
Winner: SXI32 Robin Ashfield

Mk5 Golf
Runner up: K4GVW Kats Giles
Winner: D9MLO Thomas Bowsher

Mk6 & Mk7 Golf

Runner up: WIB15 Paul Hicklin
Winner: S30BMX Steve Fish Fraser

Jetta Mk1 & Mk2

Runner up: 89LH2451 Richard Quinlan
Winner: 725J20 Steven Tuite

Vento & Bora

Runner up: W258PLS Andy Thomas
Winner: 96D28765 Craig Furlong

Mk5 & Mk6 Jetta

Winner: Niall Geraghty
Runner up: AXZ6761 Neil Mcifadira

Beetle Watercooled

Runner up: L444XZ Claire Tonan
Winner: DJZ8174 Lenny


Polo 1-4

Runner up: 90LM376 Simon
Winner: T866ABL Keil Critten

Polo 6n2 – 6R

Runner up: Michael Patton
Winner: W10SRB Scott Beatie

Passat

Runner up: TFZ 4218 Aaron McMahon
Winner: S500GHB Gavin Black

Scirocco/Corrado

Runner up: VAG503R Ed Johnston
Winner: ZV34036 Padhraic Forde

New Scirocco

Runner up: A1 ORM Dan Hodgson
Winner: MT59KYC Mark Shepstone

Lupo/Arosa/Up

Runner up: EXZ6881 Adam Hamill
Winner: M11UPS Harry Boness

Caddy

Runner up: E547JJN William Skelton
Winner: J703 RFX Colin Burnside



Cabriolet

Runner up: XDZ2178 Jon McVeigh
Winner: SAZ2626 Lucas Zajac

Audi A3/S3

Runner up: FA02LOW Warwick French
Winner: KW10WER Jason



Audi A4/S4

Runner up: TKZ1254 Christian Cameron
Winner: X21DUB Jack Hogg

Audi TT

Runner up: WLZ9366 James Crowe
Winner: GFZ4704 Ben Hunter


Classic Audi

Runner up: OUI3029 Derek Doherty
Winner: PIB 6449 Jason McGuckin


Audi Other


Winner: SFZ7848 Ryan McCall


Seat

Runner up: XEZ3478 David Spratt
Winner: 05TS4572 Daniel Nieroda


Skoda

Runnerup: BRZ 3688 Nial O’Kane
Winner: PKZ 6567 Richie Browne

Porsche

Runner up: Niall O Dowd
Winner: B4RRON - Barron


Best Estate

Runner up: S42TNG Pete Matthews
Winner: W666DMC David McCulloch


Best Rat look

Winner: UIW 1375 Chris Gamble


Beetle Stock (Aircooled)

Winner: DIJ7443 – Rod Currie
Beetle Custom (Aircooled)


Best Air Cooled Bus - Paul & Stewart Horner

Best Transporter - Ian Dickinson

Best wheels sponsored by Wheel Whores - Marty McCollenogue

Sponsors Choice by TG Performance - Chris Gamble

Runner up: NTW264C Martin Neal

Winner: MYX480L Dave Wheatley

Car of the Show: Matt Donnely – Ghia

 

[WSM]

@baron whatever happened to the ford - I liked that was something mightly different. New 911 is tasty

 

[Rocko]

That Cayman looks knackered...
Don't get the lowering scene at all!

It's on bags or hydraulics.

 

[baron]

@baron whatever happened to the ford - I liked that was something mightly different. New 911 is tasty

It's still alive, just in storage, waiting for the whole scene to do full circle and it all comes back in style lol

 

[ilovequo]

It's on bags or hydraulics.

Yes, aware of that...
The fact it's done intentionally makes it worse imho!
lol

 

[Mark315]

A4 looked superb @Christian! Congrats on runner up!!

Ps I'm never doing shots with you again

 

[natogreen16v]

Cheers for the summary @Ben E, I couldn't hang about for the prize giving.

Does anyone know who owned the OEM red MK3 GTi, near the main indoor picnic area?

Chris donnelly owns it

 

[Paul RS]

It's still alive, just in storage, waiting for the whole scene to do full circle and it all comes back in style lol

You need to get it out when @Mark King s Mondeo is finished - It'll be like the 1990s all over again

 

[WSK]

Show was dead on, worth the dander around once a year. Some really nice motors.

As said though, pretty boring looking at the same vag stuff buried on airbags and some of the cars inside had pretty poor paintwork, few looked to be washed with bricks, this is down to owners really though and maybe the lights made it stand out a bit more, my own isn't great but if im entering to any show, i would go to the effort and make it as good as possible. Grass section outside was waste of time, same as last year, random southern dung parked up.

Very well organised though, hats off.

Couldn't help but think the same show but with high quality cars of all makes would be deadly, maybe a shed full of German, and another full of jap etc

 

[ChrisL]

Show was dead on, worth the dander around once a year. Some really nice motors.

As said though, pretty boring looking at the same vag stuff buried on airbags and some of the cars inside had pretty poor paintwork, few looked to be washed with bricks, this is down to owners really though and maybe the lights made it stand out a bit more, my own isn't great but if im entering to any show, i would go to the effort and make it as good as possible. Grass section outside was waste of time, same as last year, random southern dung parked up.

Very well organised though, hats off.

Couldn't help but think the same show but with high quality cars of all makes would be deadly, maybe a shed full of German, and another full of jap etc

Myself and @Carson were talking about the same idea. Something along the lines of a Pistonheads show, all marques but more directed at high performance cars from all era's. Ranging from things like Sierra Cosworths to modified and standard cars like RS6's and M4's etc! Think something like that would be really good.

 

[WSM]

I should have took the M4 but I don't think it's quite show condition!

 

[Gemma]

@ChrisL that would be awesome and worth a dander...

get the motorbike crowd in as well so its ticks everyones boxes

 

[ChrisL]

It was just a thought ... would be a good event half way between Dubshed and Titanic Dubs. Just to take advantage of the later nights etc. Some of the pistonheads coffee meets in the past have brought in some great cars from all walks of life.

@WSM id say yours would have fitted in nicely, the guy that used to have the 4 door M3 (VOI 111) had his new Marina blue M3 there gorgeous!

 

[Gemma]

@WSM how is it not show condition ...its a brand new m4 lol

 

[Ian A]

Loads of mental cars this year. Personal favorite had to be Robin's R32.

OEM+ styling, rare as hell wheels, and as clean underneath as it is outside. Not bad for a dodgy Ballymena man.

 

[richie_mck]

Car of the show for me was robins r32 as above, absolute perfection.

 

[Cooper]

Car of the show for me was robins r32 as above, absolute perfection.

Did you see the red Mk2 with the R32 conversion, also lovely and very unassuming

 

[Ian A]

Myself and @Carson were talking about the same idea. Something along the lines of a Pistonheads show, all marques but more directed at high performance cars from all era's. Ranging from things like Sierra Cosworths to modified and standard cars like RS6's and M4's etc! Think something like that would be really good.

I liked the RMS anniversary show at Junction one a few years back for this.

Thought it brought out a great mix of cars.

 

[Cooper]

I liked the RMS anniversary show at Junction one a few years back for this.

Thought it brought out a great mix of cars.

This is what we are hoping for (in slightly smaller scale) at our BBQs this year.

 

[ChrisL]

Car of the show for me was Nialls Porsche and the Marina blue M3 outside

 

[ChrisL]

This is what we are hoping for (in slightly smaller scale) at our BBQs this year.

Pity we couldnt get something arranged for an indoors event, albeit smaller than dubshed. Would echo the old events from back in the day.

 

[Rocko]

They cost an initial outlay, unless you can blag somewhere for free.