Better late then never

Back in September we decided to hold a small meet the evening before the all important Players show. With cars coming into the uk from all directions and due to the small space we had keep this event invite only, inviting our close friends and friends from afar. Expecting only half the invited to roll up we were far from being wrong with the small area packed with some of europe’s hottest metal kissing badges with its neighbour.

Heres just a few snaps taken from the evening. Keep your eyes peeled for this years event as we have a much bigger premisses to play with.

Massive thanks to the lomotion boys for coming down. Love this EK!

First outing for our S2000 cant wait to get her back on the road.

Our adams old MX will be missed.

Lee from lomotion 1 series. Cant wait to see its new look!

One of fav EG’s ever!

Fords A3 with the full package.

Elsecar Megameet is held at the Heritage centre in Barnsley off Junction 36 of the M1. For me (Tony) this is one of very few local show’s for me, so it would’ve been rude not to pop down and see what was happening. This year is the 15th year the Elsecar Megameet has been held, and it only seems to be going from strength to strength each year. I’ve been for the past 3 years, and it’s always been a nice chilled out show with a good atmosphere.

As i no longer own a VAG car i had no need to be up at daft o’clock to make it in the show area. So i rolled up at a respectable time of 12pm to start my little wander around the heritage centre. The show is by no mean’s a ”big” show, but that’s part of it’s charm, it has a real nice chilled out feel about it.

I started in the indoor area of the show, where i saw Jason Allen’s awesome A3 running many many trick touches, like 2 iPad’s on his install, perfectly fitted Rotiforms and a flawless paint job by the guys over at Reflex Auto Design.

Jason’s amazing interior.

Touring car inspired mk3 was a favourite of the show.

Perfectly stanced R32.

We have big love for Jack Smith’s Westie fronted mk1.

New wave Fabia looking the part with a healthy drop on some Rotiform NUE’s.

The rear of Jack Smith’s mk1.

We spotted this super clean mk1 outside running on StillStatic suspension and old school motorsport BBS, perfect combination.

This fabia really caught my attention.

Clean mk4 estate on 3SDM 0.05′s.

The Syco Graphix new work horse T5 is van perfection.

Makes the 20″ Rotiforms look small too.

We do love a set of RF’s here at RollHard, and these fully polished one’s were no exception.

Arosa sat well on Gotti’s.

On the way out i spotted Gavin’s E36 repping one of our windscreen stickers. This car definitely deserves to run a sticker for sure

Another shot of the Arosa.

All about the air ride for 2013.

Word’s and photo’s : Tony.

2012 saw all the UK rollhard chaps taking our Wörthersee cherries. We had everything all booked up since last December and it seemed like it was never going to arrive. But after what seemed like an eternity waiting for May the 9th to come around, it soon did and we were headed off to dover.

We did our usual trick and missed the ferry which was booked up for 4pm, so the 6pm ferry it was instead. We decided to stop of at our Belgian headquarters on the way to break things up a little bit, and we eventually arrived at Levi’s for around 12:30am. Not ideal considering we were up at 4:30 to set off to Austria (And the fact we didn’t get to sleep till about 2:30am). Anyway, by 5am we were all up and on our way to Austria… 

After about 3minutes of driving this happened to Elmo. Only another 10hours+ to go for the rest of us

With Elmo soundly asleep we got on with the drive down through Germany on the Autobahn’s Turn’s out Germany has quite a few cool buildings dotted along the Autobahn’s and the KPMG building was one of them.

After getting all arty farty and checking out the German architecture we soon started to see some real sights, the Austrian Mountains!

It’s safe to say driving through Austria has been the best driving experience we’ve had so far, with a backdrop like that (And i only got better) what more could you want.

So after 11 or so hours of driving from Levi’s house in Belgium we arrived at our hotel in Velden, Austria. Where we also had amazing views to wake up to every morning. Can you tell we like Austria quite a lot yet?

Once we’d had a freshen up, which was long needed after 11hours plus driving we headed out for some food and then onto the Shell station. But we didn’t think to take our camera’s with us (Because were stupid) so thats where we end up picture wise on day one!

Day two.

If you have never been to Wörthersee before and don’t really know how it works, people basically gather everywhere around the lake in the local towns and villages. One of these places is called Faaker See, which always draws big crowds and also hosted the Low Familia meet on Thursday (Which we missed ). Anyway, here are some pics from Faaker See.

At Faaker See we saw very clean car’s like the Passat CC above, and the Mk5 below.

Then we came across this very interesting mk1. We say interesting because that’s exactly what it is, sand covered engine bay, wheels and other small details. Then bit’s of cloth dotted around the car, and to finish it all of a wooden roll cage and bambo door cards for the suicide doors. All in all it was one of the most unique use of materials on a car we’ve ever seen.

Then it was back to normality, kind of. If a mk5 sat static on 20″ Vossen Wheels counts as normal to you? Either way this thing looked the nut’s. To get it sat static like it is on 20′s and still be able to drive it is a job well done sir.

Well that concludes Part 1 of our Wörthersee coverage, check out a few more pics in the gallery below and stay tuned for part with plenty more pictures for your viewing pleasure.

P.S. Also keep a look out for a feature we did while we were out there on a certain B5 with some very special wheels.

Now we’ve gotten our blog back online we can finally start to bring you show coverage from all the one’s we attend.

And as you may of guessed from the title of this post, we attended today’s Early Edition show down in Northampton, and if you weren’t following our live instagram feed for a few snaps earlier, then enjoy all them and more here.

Well after looking at the weather forecast and seeing we were set for a gloomy and wet day, we weren’t best pleased at all. But when we arrived at the show ground the sun was out and he had his hat on which was a very nice surprise for us all.

So with it been nice and sunny we went for a wander to check out some of the UK’s finest offerings. The level of car’s was pretty high as expected with any dub show, and it was nice to have a good snoop around some of the one’s pictured below. One of our favourites of the show has to be Hulk’s Caddy van sat on a custom set of Rotiform’s. The level of finish on this van is amazing, and the colour and wheels really work well together. We all wished we could have this for our daily work van’s, but instead we have to stick to our boring standard transit’s.

I’ll stop with the jibber jabber now and let you all have a look through our photo’s and enjoy them for yourself.

That concludes our Early Edition coverage.

But make sure you keep checking the blog as the next show for us is Worthersee in Austria, and we will be blogging and updating our facebook and instagram throughout the time we are their.