Our first year as a chapter of the Central Ohio Vintage VW Club (COVVC) proved to be a remarkable success.  It was great to meet so many VW lovers throughout the year at our various local events, and even more fun to see the delight of young and old alike when two or more VWs were gathered!  With this encouraging start, we're planning a similar schedule for 2011, but with a few adjustments to reflect what worked well and to build on a solid foundation. It's been a tough winter, so we’re really ready to get our VW's back on the road, as soon as the weather starts to ease its snowy, slushy and salty grip.

 As mentioned before, the purpose of our Chapter is to provide a range of activities for COVVC members who live in the Northeastern part of the state.  Since it's challenging and not always convenient to drive our vintage Bugs, Buses, Ghias and other VWs to Columbus for many of the activities in that area, we are planning a number of events in and around Northeastern Ohio.  Of course we still consider the COVVC Volksfest (on August 13 this year) to be the high point of our schedule.

Since our support--with the Zűndfolge newsletter, the COVVC website and COVVC North board representation-- comes through the main club, all Northeast Ohio chapter participants should be COVVC members, which only costs $15.00 per year.

E-mail will be used for future mailings and notices in order to manage costs and save a few trees.  These are COVVC members with telephone area codes (216), (330) and (440) and home addresses that put you in reach of events in and around the Cleveland area.   If you know of other VW enthusiasts we might have missed, please send us their E-mail addresses.

(Of course, all COVVC-sponsored events are open to ALL COVVC members, no matter where they are located!)

Here is our schedule for 2011 (note that there may be others added during the course of the driving season).  Click here for some photos of our events.
 
  Saturday, May 28 – COVVC NEO and LEAKOIL Spring Cruise-In – Starting at Emerald Necklace Marina,
  1500 Scenic Park Drive

  Saturday, June 4 – COVVC Tune-Up Day

  Saturday, July 23 – COVVC North Cruise-in at Brookstock – Brookside Reservation, Cleveland

  Saturday, August 13 – COVVC Volksfest – Pataskala (Columbus area), Ohio

   Saturday, September 3 – Oktoberfest – Antique German Car Show – Berea Fairgrounds
  The LEAKOIL folks enjoy free overnight parking for camping the nights of September 2, 3 and 4;
  car show is Saturday.
 
Let us hear from you!
 
Mike Roecker            michaelmroecker@gmail.com       216-233-4456
 
Bruce Amacker         bamacker@aol.com                        440-846-3885

 

COVVC NEO -- 2010

Our first driving event was held May 1st and was a huge success! 

Click here for more pictures of our first COVVC NEO driving event!  

The COVVC NEO group also had a fun day at Cleveland Metroparks Brookstock on July 17th.

Click here for more photos of Brookstock!

Also, check out the photos of other COVVC NEO events here!