Saturday, October 11th, marked the 13th annual Annual Volktoberfest VW show Show and Swap Meet held by the Circle City Volkswagen Club (CCVW) in Fishers, Indiana. In its 13 years of existence, the this car show has steadily grown to one of the area’s best VW shows. Volktoberfest is not exclusive to air-cooled or water-cooled VWs; they also welcome Porsche, Audi, and even the occaisional Honda or motorcycle. In addition, they showcase a vast collection of vintage airplanes. This year, there was even a super nice Corvair ramp-bed pickup. It has a nice and relaxed atmosphere, plenty of great food and music, lots of cool prizes given out to attendees, and best of all – It’s FREE to enter your car.
CCVW was founded in 2001 and has steadily grown increased membership to 45 members in 2010 when Buck Bailey was elected President. Currently, they are 116 members strong and growing.
Through the efforts of CCVW President Buck Bailey, and many countless others, Volktoberfest has expanded from a show of under less than 100 cars in 2010 to over 325 cars in 2014. Two hundred and fifty of which were pre-registered, and numerous additional cars in the parking lot and parked way down along the road. (One of which was mine… parked waaaay down at the end because I arrived late and couldn’t get a good spot).
Arriving late, I missed out on some of the fun like ‘Get your car’s picture taken with a P-51 Mustang’ and the door prizes given out by the shows sponsors like including Tom Wood VW and Buggy Works. Late-comers like me still had plenty of time for fun, though. My two-year old son was hard to contain as I took pictures of cars. He kept trying to get into each car and check them out on the inside for me.
The atmosphere of the show was one of VW love and appreciation without any drama that some shows seem to have. The swap meet area was full of goodies just waiting to be had. The only downside was the bathroom line – which which was in the swap meet area. The more I stood in line, the more stuff I wanted to buy. Not a good thing when you already have over 40 VWs and basically 3 buildings full of parts, like I do. Well played CCVW… well played.
Some of the cars that stood out to me the most was were the super clean, baby- blue ‘81 Rabbit 4- door, the custom shorty VW Bus, a Ford- powered Vanagon camper, and the Judson powered Volksrod. Picking my favorite would be way too hard. Luckily I wasn’t a judge, but here are the official results from the judges.
SHOW WINNERS
Air Cooled
Winners
| Category | Car# | Name | Type | Color |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best of Show | 196 | Joe Cecil | 69 VW Bus | Pearl White |
| Best Engine | 229 | Troy Julius | 75 Beetle | Red |
| Best Paint | 5 | Rob Kempton | 72 Super Beetle | Candy-Wild Cherry |
| Best Interior | 257 | Mark Richmond | 67 Ghia | Blue Pearl |
| Best Patina | 277 | Nate Trueblood | 68 Beetle | Red/White |
Top 13
| Car# | Name | Type | Color |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | Scott Wilson | 74 Beetle | Barbados Blue Metallic |
| 66 | Scott Lauer | 56 Beetle Ragtop | Purple |
| 196 | Joe Cecil | 69 VW Bus | Pearl White |
| 50 | Dallas Strong | 64 Beetle | Green |
| 269 | Jeff Wells | 59 Beetle | Black |
| 212 | Nick Schiro | 73 Thing | Tan |
| 113 | Joe Colins | 89 Street Rail | Silver/Black |
| 290 | Clyde Pennington | 57 Beetle | Red/White |
| 101 | Darrell Gardner | 65 Beetle | Orange/White |
| 156 | Jacob Willis | 72 Beetle | Texas Yellow |
| 151 | Doug Willis | 63 Beetle | Turkish |
| 99 | Mike Arnold | 71 Beetle | Blue |
| 146 | Melissa Montgomery | 63 Beetle | Polar White/Smoke Gray |
Water Cooled
Winners
| Category | Car# | Name | Type | Color |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best of Show | 115 | Dave Smith | 2013 T-Vert Beetle | White |
| Best Engine | 239 | Eric Ball | 2009 MKV GTI | White |
| Best Paint | 38 | Brian Butler | 2008 GTI | Black |
| Best Interior | 117 | Joshua Kinney | 99 MKIV Jetta | Red |
| Best Patina | 161 | Jonathan Juillerat | 87 Vanagon Wsty | Metallic Grey |
Top 13
| Car# | Name | Type | Color |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | Brian Butler | 2008 GTI | Black |
| 170 | Alexis Schaefer | 2009 Beetle | Black |
| 58 | Dillon Kempton | 2009 Touareg | White |
| 115 | Dave Smith | 2013 T-Vert Beetle | White |
| 161 | Jonathan Juillerat | 87 Vanagon Wsty | Metallic Grey |
| 226 | Nick Smith | 2007 MKV GTI | United Grey |
| 227 | Perry Mead | 2004 MKIV GLI Jetta | Black Magic |
| 215 | Westin Ross | 2003 GTI | Jazz Blue |
| 80 | Brock Bickford | 2008 GTI | Black Magic |
| 238 | TJ Reed | MKVI GTI | Black Metallic |
| 54 | Kyle Shepherd | 2008 R32 | Blue |
| 174 | Serafin Jovet | 2007 GTI Fahrenheit | Magma Orange |
| 191 | Matt Gray | 1981 Rabbit | Lago Blue |
Audi
Winners
| Category | Car# | Name | Type | Color |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best of Show | 185 | Jordan Hesterhagen | 2005 S4 | Black |
| Runner Up | 245 | Mike Kelley | 2005 S4 | Black |
Porsche
Winners
| Category | Car# | Name | Type | Color |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best of Show | 171 | Bob Stuck | 1989 944 T | Red |
| Runner Up | 301 | Trent Dufour | 2003 911 Carrera | Red |
The 14th Annual CCVW Volktoberfest 2015 Car Show / Swap Meet will be held on October 10th, 2015 at the Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport. If you are within a 3 or 4 hour driving distance from Indianapolis, I would strongly suggest you make put this show on your list calendar for next year. Honestly, even if you are farther away – plan to come,; you won’t be disappointed.
Now, on with the pics!
