Share Your Story
This page is where we collect photos, scans, newsletters, and stories from the AVVA community as we rebuild the club’s online history. Anyone can submit — member or not, longtime or brand-new. Everything is reviewed by a real human before it appears on the public site.
Why this page exists
AVVA has been around since April 1989. In that time the club has held 35+ years of monthly meetings, 30+ Volksfests, hundreds of cruises, tech nights, parades, parties, fundraisers, and charity drives. Most of that history lives in members’ photo albums, garages, and memories — not online.
The website you’re reading right now is being rebuilt to fix that. We’ve already mined the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and local press for what we could find — see the History page for what we’ve put together so far. There are still big gaps, especially the 1990s and early 2000s. You can help fill them.
What we’re looking for
Anything related to AVVA or Volksfest, especially:
- 📸 Photos from any year — cars, cruises, meetings, parties, tech nights, parades, Volksfest weekends, drag races at Renegade, after-Volksfest pizza, valve cover races, the Anderson family’s Giggles & Goofy, you in front of your bug — all of it.
- 📰 Old issues of Das Auto, the club newsletter — even one issue from the 90s would be a treasure.
- 🏆 Hand-crafted trophy photos — every year is unique.
- 👕 Volksfest T-shirt designs from any year.
- 📋 Volksfest registration forms, dash plaques, programs, results, maps.
- 📜 Stories and write-ups — how you joined, favorite memory, the build of your first VW, that one time at Springmeet…
- 📹 Video from any era — drag-race footage, cruise videos, club party clips.
- 🧓 Names of past officers, charter members, longtime members we should make sure to remember.
- 🤔 Anything else. If you’re wondering whether it’s useful, send it. We’ll figure it out.
How submissions work
- Pick a file in the form below (photo, scan, PDF — up to 15 MB).
- Add your name, email, and a caption if you can. None of those are required, but they help us credit you and figure out what we’re looking at.
- Hit Submit for review.
- A club member reviews it and, if it’s a good fit, drops it onto the appropriate page on this site.
If you’d like to be credited on the page, mention that in the caption (e.g. “Photo by Jane Doe, 1994”). If you’d rather stay anonymous, just leave the name field blank — that’s fine too.
Got something big — a stack of newsletter binders, a box of slides, a hard drive of video? Don’t try to cram it through the form. Email john@robug.com or drop a note via the Contact page and we’ll arrange to pick it up, scan it, and return whatever you want back.
Got physical media? We’ll digitize it
The form below is great for files you already have on a phone or computer. But a lot of AVVA history isn’t digital — it’s in shoeboxes, photo albums, slide carousels, binders of old Das Auto issues, and tapes from drag-race day at Renegade.
That’s where John comes in. John runs a high-speed sheet-fed scanner that can digitize a stack of paper or photos in minutes, and a VHS / Hi8 / MiniDV capture rig for old video tapes. If you’ve got physical media you’d rather not give up permanently, here’s the deal:
- You drop it off (or we pick it up).
- John scans / captures it.
- You get your originals back — usually within a few days.
- The digital copies go into the AVVA archive and onto the site (with your name on them if you want).
This applies to photo prints, photo albums, slides (35mm, medium-format), negatives, paper documents, newsletter binders, registration forms, dash plaques, T-shirts (we’ll photograph them), VHS tapes, Hi8 tapes, MiniDV tapes, audio cassettes — basically anything physical. There’s no charge for any of this; it’s for the club.
To set something up, email john@robug.com or message via the Contact page.
One file at a time, below
The form below uploads one file per submission. If you have a bunch of photos, that’s great — just submit them one at a time. (Yes, it’s a little tedious. Sorry. We’ll send pizza if it helps.)