Celebrating the lifestyle and culture of VW enthusiasts with new show

Suffolk leisure destination Stonham Barns Park is preparing to host its first Dub Speed VW Show as it welcomes owners and enthusiasts to its showground from Friday 27 June to Sunday 29 June.  It will be a gathering of families and individuals who love Volkswagen cars and camper vans.

Dub is short for Vee Dub which is the shortened term for Volkswagen and the show will include all variants of VWs from Beetles to Camper Vans and everything in between.

The show is the idea of VW enthusiast Jay Turnock who runs BJs Speedshop, a family-owned business based in the South East of England.  The business builds and supplies performance air-cooled engines for stock, fast road and race cars for classic Porsche and VW marques.  These engines have been used in road and race cars across the UK and Europe.

Explains Jay, ‘I have always worked in and around classic cars and have also enjoyed camping holidays having spent lots of my holidays as child on campsites, so it was always a dream to own a VW Camper van.’

‘In my early 20s I got my first VW camper with my wife, and we enjoyed many trips away in it. I did however soon set about modifying the engine to keep up with modern traffic, this somewhat escalated over the years!’

‘The idea of the show is to bring a group of likeminded people together to show their classic VWs and share the stories behind them as well as relax and enjoy some music and games. We will have many different cars on display from road cars to race cars and campervans to pickups.’

‘We are looking forward to the trip to Suffolk and to creating some fun memories at what we hope will be an all action, fun weekend with other enthusiasts.’

Adds Alex Muckle from Stonham Barns Park Events Team, ‘This will be a top family event for the VW enthusiasts of Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex with many of the car owners arriving for a leisurely drive to Stonham Barns Park for what we hope will be an annual VW cruise.’

‘We are all looking forward to welcoming the cars and owners and seeing the race and road cars, vans and trucks in their full glory.’

All show visitors will be given an Event Wristband to entitle them to receive discounted entry to Bloomfields Amusements, Carters of Suffolk Pottery Painting, Stonham Barns Golf Park family fun and entry to the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary and Nature Centre.