The MTM Journal

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