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Urotuning's 18th Fixxfest Event Coverage & Photo Gallery
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Urotuning's 18th Fixxfest Event Coverage & Photo Gallery
Fixxfest is back, baby! And so was I! AND so was Tobias!  After a five year hiatus, Justin Welty and the whole Urotuning crew brought back Florida's most diverse VW/Audi/Euro car show back to its home at Bradenton Motorsports Park. Under it's new ownership (Cletus McFarland and the Freedom Factory), the drag strip was opened to European car enthusiasts, drag racers and pie-eaters alike for a long day in the Florida sun—and then rain! When Tobi (@tobiastrousers) and I first decided to run down to Florida for Fixxfest the plan was loose. Shoot some stuff and post about it, while sneaking away to snap a couple features for the next VW/Audi calendar and other print projects in the pipeline (stay tuned for more on that later!).  While I finish up our little video of the event, please take a look at the full photo gallery by clicking the link below: Fixxfest 2026 Photo Gallery And if you see a photo of your car that you love and want to order a print of it, find it at the following link: Fixxfest 2026 Prints There's literally HUNDREDS of motion shots of cars entering and leaving the event too, so maybe we caught you rolling! 
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Urotuning's 18th Fixxfest Event Coverage & Photo Gallery
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Urotuning's 18th Fixxfest Event Coverage & Photo Gallery
Fixxfest is back, baby! And so was I! AND so was Tobias!  After a five year hiatus, Justin Welty and the whole Urotuning crew brought back Florida's most diverse VW/Audi/Euro car show back to its home at Bradenton Motorsports Park. Under it's new ownership (Cletus McFarland and the Freedom Factory), the drag strip was opened to European car enthusiasts, drag racers and pie-eaters alike for a long day in the Florida sun—and then rain! When Tobi (@tobiastrousers) and I first decided to run down to Florida for Fixxfest the plan was loose. Shoot some stuff and post about it, while sneaking away to snap a couple features for the next VW/Audi calendar and other print projects in the pipeline (stay tuned for more on that later!).  While I finish up our little video of the event, please take a look at the full photo gallery by clicking the link below: Fixxfest 2026 Photo Gallery And if you see a photo of your car that you love and want to order a print of it, find it at the following link: Fixxfest 2026 Prints There's literally HUNDREDS of motion shots of cars entering and leaving the event too, so maybe we caught you rolling! 
Sam Dobbins
How it's Made: 2026 VW Calendar
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How it's Made: 2026 VW Calendar
When my annual VW calendar was first conceived, back in 2009, my only experience with large scale printing was a short tenure at a prepress company, editing black and white photos and preflighting text book files. Luckily, via VWVortex, the universe assigned me a printing shepherd who was also a Mk3 fanatic, and I quickly got up to speed. After over a dozen calendars, 4 mini coffee table books and overseeing and laying out countless print projects for former employers in the automotive space, I finally feel pretty confident in how it all works and FINALLY found a shop in California that I could visit firsthand to capture the process in-person!  Click Here for the YT Short Video
Sam Dobbins
Roots Classic 2023 Video and Photo Gallery
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Roots Classic 2023 Video and Photo Gallery
As summer was wrapping up and my former favorite month of the year (September) was quickly approaching, I made the last-minute audible to travel east for Roots Classic 2023, a pre-2000 VW show in Wildwood, NJ. With a rental car full of camera equipment and no real plan, I descended on this familiar east coast beach town with no idea how it would spit me out the other side. But first I think I owe you all a little context. For years and years, beginning when I still lived back in Washington state, September marked a time when the stateside VW scene's annual pilgrimage took place. From thousands of miles, VW enthusiasts traveled east to the now-infamous beach town of Ocean City, Maryland, to partake in a long weekend of VWs and Audis, G2Gs in parking lots and an eventual show at the Ocean Downs horse track just outside the city limits. I had first seen coverage of H2O International in Performance VW Magazine (@pvw_mag), around the first time a really picked up a camera.    Roots Classic 2023 Photo Gallery
Sam Dobbins

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