As some of you might have caught the wind, I recently started internship with a successful race team that competes in the VLN as well as the 24h race at the revered Nürburgring. Full time job means there is very little time to distract myself into personal projects, but a couple of nights ago I was told about a weekly tuning meet in the city of Heilbronn, and a couple of my friends told me they’d pick me up and go have a look.

I had no idea that such a meet existed, and neither did my work colleagues, so I was a bit skeptical at first about the outcome.

When we got to the scene, the OBI car park was nowhere near as full as I was hoping it’d be, but then again, it was April 1st and most people had just rolled their cars out of the winter hibernation and were probably licking it clean. After looking around for a while, this camo S14A dropped by with steelies. The Novidem GTR can pull off the camo look pretty well, and I know someone else who is going to enter professional motorsport in Germany with a camo look, but on an S14 it looked a bit odd. Maybe the car is all sharp edges and the camo not so much. The car looked well stanced, I suspect he didn’t have his rims at hand.

I took a walk round the park with my mate Rainer, checking out the rides and sometimes wondering what kind of plain idiots would think of speeding at car parks. This Daihatsu Materia looked pretty stock but the subtle OZ wheels gave it some class.

Round the corner was this E36 with an E46 front sitting on some badass BBS rims. I am not entirely sure about all the E36-E46 conversions, but looks like there is a market for it…

Check out the offset!

I asked the guy to push the car forwards just so I can get this picture.

Next in line was this beautifully immaculate Mk1 Golf. I was looking through the BBS catalog yesterday and I couldn’t help but wonder, if some rim designer at BBS can do it, why can’t tuning wheel makers hire someone who can do it too? Surely, it can’t be that difficult to have a design competition and hire someone who has a thing for timeless designs?

I adore this car. Mind you it was a Pininfarina design, but VW went ahead and butchered it anyways…

There was a guy at my university who drove a Mk1 Golf Cabrio. We never really talked that much but I had immense respect for him just for owning that car and driving it year in and year out. Robbie Williams drives one too, y’know?

Everywhere I look, BBS…

Benny, who in the meantime I thought was dead, reanimated into a zombie, but instead of brains, started eating Pringles chips.

“We come to your planet looking for intelligent life forms….”

We then headed out for some food with Julian and his girlfriend in his E36 and me riding with Rainer and Benny.

Some of the cars on scene were worth looking at, but the lack of discipline among a few loony guys who tried to showboat around the car park brought the spirit down a little. Such people generally give genuine car enthusiasts a bad name.