All German Aircooled Show 'n Shine Weekend
Featuring Vintage VWs, Speeders & Spyders replicas, Porsche 912s and 914s!!
Saturday, April 21, 2007 Show 'n Shine in the Park
Sunday, April 22, Wine country cruise.
Downtown City Park - One of the best Car Show venues in the county!
12th and Spring St., Paso Robles, CA

The second annual All German Aircooled Gathering held in Paso Robles historic downtown city park. This is a beautiful park in the heart of downtown surrounded by wonderful shopping and resturants. The Downtown Mainstreet Association  also hosted their Antique Treasure Fair in the park at the same time. I attended this gathering as an alternative to the Red Barn/ Kelley Park shows located 3 hours north of Paso Robles, having thier shows fall on this same weekend. The event had the threat of rain lingering around but was nice and clear all day for the show. I was able to display my handcrafted jewelery in the "Recycled Treasures" show and made a couple of dollars for the gas. There were so many fine German machines to observe from Porsches to a 1974 German Ford Fire Truck. The Fire truck wasn't air cooled but it was German other than Ford made it. Looking like a gigantic Fridolin with a vintage blue light and old wooden ladder on top. There were many nice buses. Two very nice type II's were driven there by Frank & Donna Atkinson of Atascadero. The first of being a really wonderful 1961 European Camper flipseat and subhatch, detailed with authentic europe travel stickers on the windows. Frank also brought his 1958 deluxe shortened "Shorty" bus, originally done in 1966 it was the first of its kind to be modified that way, done by Frank himself. This shorty bus has been in storage all this time. There was a nice assortment of Volkswagens bugs, buses, double cab, bay windows, ghia and a Manx. I didn't get to spend as much time as I could've checking out all the cars because I was a vendor. Like all shows the best part is just hanging out in a casual gathering with like minded car folk in such a beautiful spot. It was a very different show for me to be in. Alot of the people there were for the "Recycled Treasures" show making it very unique in the way that they were very taken by the cars. I got alot of the usual I remember when and I had one of those or a friend or neighbor. But there were so many people so intriqued with questions like do you drive it? why is the engine in the back? you can sleep in your car? and my favorite was all the people trying to guess what year? by remembering where they were and what they were doing at the time they first remember seeing one. I think thats what I like best about driving my bus it takes me back to another time, when life was a little slower, alot less complicated, and just a little bit more laid back. Im in no hurry are you?