Aloha Gang, We are announcing the sale of the VW club of Hawaii Blue Cruiser Shirts! We will be selling shirts at the Haleiwa Picnic tomorrow for $15.00 and have adult sizes from small to 2 XL. Limited supply so check us out at the tent to get yours. All shirt sales go to fundraising for the up coming September Show! Pictures will be posted soon! Or shirts can be seen in the Gallery under Hawaii Convention Center Show also. Mahalo for your support! Aloha VW Club of Hawaii

Aloha VW Ohana, Just a quick follow up mahalo to all the VWCOH Crew Memebers and VW Show Car Owners who shared their awesome cars with the people of Hawaii at the First Hawaiian bank Auto Show at the Hawaii Convention Center last month. The numbers are in and we had over 40,000 people pass through and see our cars!!! MASSIVE!!!    HUGE Thanks to Todd and Angie for keeping back in da day going strong! Mahalo to the main crew members Gordon Ortiz, Jeff Marzo, Kevin Meyer, Mike Roth and Hanibal Cabacungan for your support organizing. Special “Chee Hee” thanks to Shane and Dana for all the pictures and video coverages! See the Gallery and Video section of our website! Thanks Barry for sharing your rare collector cars too. Congrats to peoples choice trophy “voted by the public” went to Vic Pascua’s 1965 Black and Red Flamed Dune Buggy! All in all the best indoor VW show yet as said by many people with 34 VW’s. A big challenge to coordinate and set up! VW’s invited were- 2008 Alamoana Park show winners, daily drivers, swapmeet & cruise attendies, rare collector & kit cars, rare Type 3′s, and newly completed VW’s no one seen yet! Also mahalo to our own family members who support our Hawaiian VW hobby! At the end of the show drivers rolled out and took a final cruise through Waikiki. In case you missed it here is the big mahalo list of VW show cars & owners below.  Mahalo again to all who made this special event come together smoothly. You truely are VW Ohana in the Classic Hawaiian Style. Aloha VW Club of Hawaii

1966 Blue Flamed Dune Buggy, Todd Matsumoto

1964 Metallic Blue Dune Buggy, Stoney Samson

1965 Black Flamed Dune Buggy, Vic Pascua   

1968 Metallic Blue Karmann Ghia, Mike Roth  

1969 Black Karmann Ghia, Chad Dela Vega 

1973 Silver Karmann Ghia, Jeff Marzo                 

1956 Champagne Oval Ragtop Bug, Danny Nishi         

1957 Red Oval Rag Top Bug, Wayne Silva       

1957 Black Oval Hard Top Bug, Chris Kini    

1956 Olive Green Oval Hard Top Bug, Aaron Kahalewai

1955 Black Vert Bug, Glen Nomura             

1962 Blue Vert Bug, Alex Ching                           

1965 Metallic Lt Blue Vert Bug, DeRoy Dela Cruz    

 1958 Lt Green Rag Top Bug, Billy Lee        

 1963 Orange/White Rag Top Bug, Al Maghamil    

 1963 Brandy Wine Rag Top Bug, John Bautista     

 1967 White Hard Top Bug, Hanibal Cabacungan

1967 Gold Hard Top Bug, Travis Kapahu           

1956 Blue 11 Window Bus, Eddie Quillopo

1962 Red/White 11 Window Bus, Ruben Cadabes

1964 Sunburst 11 Window Bus, Eddie Quillopo

1966 Blue White 21 Window Bus, Rich Neitzel

1959 Off White Single Cab, Billy Kanuha

1961 Tan Crew Cab, Miguel Colon Leon

1963 Red/White Crew Cab, Kevin Meyer

1962 Metallic Blue Type 3 Notch Back, Colin Kunishige

1965 White Type 3 Razor Ghia, Glen Nomura

1973 White Thing, Destry Flores

1979 Flower Power Vert Bug, Bekah Nelson

1955 Silver James Dean Porsche Spyder, Barry Betencourt

1956 Black Red Pearl Porsche Speedster, David Yee

1970 Red Chop Top Bug, Gordon Ortiz

1946 Tan Collector Split Bug, Barry Betencourt

1953 Razberry Split Rag Top Bug, Lance Patigayon

Aloha VW Ohana,

We are glad to announce our 3rd return of The VW Club of Hawaii 2009 Show Car Invitational. Our show is in conjunction with the First Hawaiian Bank International Auto Show and Motor Trends Magazine at the Hawaii Convention Center.

Since last year’s show, we have gathered over 30 of some of Hawaii’s best, most rarest, unusual, classic and custom VW’s on the island!!! Along with Hot VW’s Magazine and Shaka Weekend feature cars too!!! So please stop by our booth and say whazz up and support your VW Club of Hawaii Ohana, It will be an AWESOME car show to see and enjoy!

Big Mahalo to Motor Trends for the return invitation!

Location- The Hawaii Convention Center

1801 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu Oahu

Show dates & times listed below-

THURSDAY 3-26-09 12:00pm to 10:00pm “College Day”

FRIDAY 3-27-09 12:00pm to 10:00pm

SATURDAY 3-28-09 10:00am to 10:00pm “Military Day”

SUNDAY 3-29-09 10:00am to 7:00pm “Kids Day”

For more info click here – 2009 First Hawaiian International Auto Show

Aloha and we hope to see you there, The VW Club of Hawaii

Aloha VW Ohana, Sending out a BIG MAHALO to all the VW Cruisers, friends and families who came out to the February 15th White Plains Beach Cruise. It was a classic sunny Hawaiian day with cool island winds, perfect for driving our VW’s. Hanibal and Jeff got us rolling with a drivers blessing and cruise route flyers. Todd lead the Cruise as we rolled out of Stadium McDonalds with 68+ VW’s. We passed through Pearl City, then out to Eva side Chevron for gas and go, then a quick cruise stop at White Plains Beach and finally gathering at the beautiful Kapolei Park. We would like to especially thank and recognize the “706 Vee Dub Crew” Al, Glen, John, Matt & 706 Club Members, their families and sponsors, for providing the tents, drinks, great grinds and VW Clubs logo cake!!! Mahalo to Robin for blessing the food too. Special thanks also to Shane and Dana from Creative Minds 808 for the picture taking and video coverage. AWESOME STUFF!!! See their video and pictures in the Members Section and Gallery. Our next event will be the St Patrick Day Parade March 17th. Hope to see you there!  

Aloha from The VW Club of Hawaii

Aloha VW Ohana,

Please come on out, shine up your VW and enjoy the Presidents Day White Plains Beach Cruise and Kapolei Park BBQ and Picnic. It’s looking to be a GOOD one!

Join us, Sunday, February 15th, Stadium McDonalds at 10:00am.

“Cruise route flyers with roll out time provided”

We then head Ewa side to White Plains Beach, then to Kapolei Park for the SPONSORED BBQ and PICNIC!!!

The hosted BBQ provided by “The VW Club of Hawaii” and the “706 VW Guys” will be serving up Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Drinks and Deserts at the end of the cruise at Kapolei Park!!!

Come out, talk story, take picture, have fun or just bring your own potluck food, that’s welcome too. VW Club of Hawaii keeping back in da day going strong! Mahalo & See you there!

“Flyers and Cruise Route to also be handed out at the Vintage VW Club’s Waimalu Swap Meet on Sunday February 8^th”

Download cruise handout below…

Cruise Handout in Word Format

Cruise Handout in PDF Format

The Calendar Event said to meet at 4pm at Star Bucks Airport Location. Four people showed up at 4pm while Todd (Zig Zag), Angie, and I rolled in at 5:30. Ed, Bob, Kyle, Travis and the Guys from Waimanalo arrived around 5:45pm the other VW owners arrived all around that time too.

There were a total of 25 VW’s which met for the cruise or joined in during the Cruise. There were Bugs, Dune Buggies, Ghias, and a VW Bus in the Cruise.

That evening the weather and night was awesome.  Because the day before we had storm which consisted of High Wind Warnings and heavy rain.   But the evening and night of the Cruise, not 1 drop of rain, and no clouds in the sky. It was just a little Chilly.  Mostly everyone in the Cruise wore Custom Dickie Chino embroidered, custom patched Jackets,  Hoodies and long sleeve shirts because of the beautiful Cold Hawaiian Night.

We started out at Star Bucks near the Airport.  We all departed around 6:30pm we all Cruised down Nimtiz to Ala Moana BLVD, then 1st Pit Stop Magic Island Ala Moana Park.  After that Pit Stop we cruised down Waikiki really slow because Shane and Dana from Creative Minds were doing a Video of all the VW’s in the Cruise cruising down Waikiki Strip. Our next and last Pit Stop was Diamond Head Lookout.  Everyone parked up there for a couple of hours talked story and enjoyed each others company.  We all headed home and split up between 9pm and 10 pm.  It was short fun cruise and good to wish everyone Happy New Year!

The next VW related event is ”The VW Vintage Club of Hawaii Swap Meet February 8, 2009 8am at Waimalu Elementary.

The next VW Club of Hawaii event is the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade which all the VW owners are invited to be in the Parade.