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For all of you that chose not to come......oh boy did you ever miss out.
Leavenworth3000 stands for the annual trip to Leavenworth put on by Evolution Motorsports. It is basically 3000 km's round trip from Calgary, done in 3 days.
This year was not the best year I have had on it............but thats not to say it was bad. It is of course hard to live up to last years epic trek where unless you pay $10,000+, drive a $300,000+ car, and put stickers saying players run or gumball all over it, you won't have this much fun.
Evolution Motorsport's drive to Leavenworth has become one of the premiere places to go for VW/Audi fun. It is a drive...not a show, however almost as many people show up for this drive as do to Waterwagens the regional VW/Audi car show. It is that big. Close to 350 cars showed up this year, which is a good turnout considering Dub Wars fell on the same weekend and I know alone from the VWDOV.ca crew that 10 cars bailed out just to go to DubWars.
How the drive works for those that don't know is everyone from the region heads to Evolution Motorsports in Kirkland just outside of Seattle. There everyone hangs out, has a drivers meeting and then departs for Leavenworth, a small german village nestled just in the coastal mountain about an hour away. Between Evolution and Leavenworth is some of the best driving roads. Brand new valley and mountain roads, newly paved and lined. About 3/4 of the way there is a mountain pass and at the top everyone stops for more photos.
Once at Leavenworth everyone enjoys what the small german town has to offer before leaving on their own accord back to where they came from.
Once again this year I made the trip from Calgary to Leavenworth for this epic event. I go from Calgary to Vancouver, where I meet up with the VWDOV.ca crew and head down. Last year saw gumball antics resulting in not one but two instances where we had to hide from the cops, 1 police roadblock, 2 tickets handed out, an hour detour in the woods, and a police helicopter. It had a lot to live up to this year.
TripleG and a passenger decided to join me in their jetta this year to make the trip. We left on the Friday morning at 4am to head for Vancouver where we would stay the night. Leaving early allows us free and open roads through the parks and no traffic until about Salmon Arm. The drive was just how I liked it....uneventful, except for the 10 cops we saw aggressivly ticketing. One cop actually followed us on the coquihala for 30 minutes with his radar on sitting right off graham's bumper. Thank god for the Valentine1 otherwise we would have definetly gotten a ticket somewhere.
We crashed the night at a friends castle in West Van before heading out the Saturday morning to meet the guys for the cruise. UofC obviously doesn't teach proper reading skills as I read 8:30 was the meeting time, when it was actually 7:30am. So 1 hour behind we attempted to play catch up, but the border line-ups had another idea. We still had an awesome blast down the I-5 and saw tons of dubbers and others heading down to Evolution.
We arrived in Evolution a little later than would have liked and because of that were at the back of the line. They line the cars in there so when it comes time to leave it is done in an orderly fashion. Spent about an hour looking around and escaping the heat. Some very nice cars there including a 996 Ruf Turbo fresh back from the recent 2006 Players Run.
After a brief drivers meeting we loaded up and headed out.
See pics below....another post to follow shortly.
All photos taken by Andrew Holliday from the DOV. Big thanks to him for great shots.
These are from the drive down:
Leavenworth3000 stands for the annual trip to Leavenworth put on by Evolution Motorsports. It is basically 3000 km's round trip from Calgary, done in 3 days.
This year was not the best year I have had on it............but thats not to say it was bad. It is of course hard to live up to last years epic trek where unless you pay $10,000+, drive a $300,000+ car, and put stickers saying players run or gumball all over it, you won't have this much fun.
Evolution Motorsport's drive to Leavenworth has become one of the premiere places to go for VW/Audi fun. It is a drive...not a show, however almost as many people show up for this drive as do to Waterwagens the regional VW/Audi car show. It is that big. Close to 350 cars showed up this year, which is a good turnout considering Dub Wars fell on the same weekend and I know alone from the VWDOV.ca crew that 10 cars bailed out just to go to DubWars.
How the drive works for those that don't know is everyone from the region heads to Evolution Motorsports in Kirkland just outside of Seattle. There everyone hangs out, has a drivers meeting and then departs for Leavenworth, a small german village nestled just in the coastal mountain about an hour away. Between Evolution and Leavenworth is some of the best driving roads. Brand new valley and mountain roads, newly paved and lined. About 3/4 of the way there is a mountain pass and at the top everyone stops for more photos.
Once at Leavenworth everyone enjoys what the small german town has to offer before leaving on their own accord back to where they came from.
Once again this year I made the trip from Calgary to Leavenworth for this epic event. I go from Calgary to Vancouver, where I meet up with the VWDOV.ca crew and head down. Last year saw gumball antics resulting in not one but two instances where we had to hide from the cops, 1 police roadblock, 2 tickets handed out, an hour detour in the woods, and a police helicopter. It had a lot to live up to this year.
TripleG and a passenger decided to join me in their jetta this year to make the trip. We left on the Friday morning at 4am to head for Vancouver where we would stay the night. Leaving early allows us free and open roads through the parks and no traffic until about Salmon Arm. The drive was just how I liked it....uneventful, except for the 10 cops we saw aggressivly ticketing. One cop actually followed us on the coquihala for 30 minutes with his radar on sitting right off graham's bumper. Thank god for the Valentine1 otherwise we would have definetly gotten a ticket somewhere.
We crashed the night at a friends castle in West Van before heading out the Saturday morning to meet the guys for the cruise. UofC obviously doesn't teach proper reading skills as I read 8:30 was the meeting time, when it was actually 7:30am. So 1 hour behind we attempted to play catch up, but the border line-ups had another idea. We still had an awesome blast down the I-5 and saw tons of dubbers and others heading down to Evolution.
We arrived in Evolution a little later than would have liked and because of that were at the back of the line. They line the cars in there so when it comes time to leave it is done in an orderly fashion. Spent about an hour looking around and escaping the heat. Some very nice cars there including a 996 Ruf Turbo fresh back from the recent 2006 Players Run.
After a brief drivers meeting we loaded up and headed out.
See pics below....another post to follow shortly.
All photos taken by Andrew Holliday from the DOV. Big thanks to him for great shots.
These are from the drive down:
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