Every May the small town of Helen, GA hosts a European car show called Southern Worthersee. It is the US’s answer to the car show in Austria called Wothersee. Helen, GA is a replica of an Alpine village, and is one of the top tourist spots in Georgia. It really looks like a German mountain town.
This year I was able to make the trip for part of the show. The little town was packed with Volkswagens and Audis.Everything from brand new Golf Rs, and Audi RS4s to old air cooled Beetles and buses. There were so many cars there, it was hard to take it all in. I know that I missed some really awesome stuff. I think next year we will make a vacation out of it.
Here are the pictures that I took. If you find a your car, please post that it’s yours, and tell us a little about it. If you know who owns the car, please let them know. The one thing I wish people would do is, put a stat sheet on the car. That way people like me can give them the proper shout out and tell folks more about their car.
I did my best to get all the information correct. If I labeled something wrong(mk1 instead of a mk2) PLEASE just post it in the comments.
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APR Audi Race Car
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Low caddy
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VW booth
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Plenty of these older VWs!
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Chattahoochee river
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This is the main show area. It was only about 1/3 of the cars there.
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I would totally drive this Ghia
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I really like the BBS wheels on the red car.
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A MK5 from SOWO
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a very nice Ghia
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Unitronic was also doing on the spot flash updates
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We have seen this VR6 Corrado before.Nice job Apex Tuning.
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nice rige height, and very clean
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This is a 4v VR6 engine swap VERY cool
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There were a few super clean VR6 engine swaps. I like the white intake manifold
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This stinks for the driver, at least he had a scene of humor
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A slammed(air ride) Audi AllRoad
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I likve the right height of this Cabby
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They even had some right hand drive swap from OE
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Great setup for the Beelte Air tanks
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Pure awesome!
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Chattahoochee river runs right through Helen,GA
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Green Van
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This is such a cool little town
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More of the town of Helen, GA
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This is the feel that Helen, Ga has
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There is something so wrong, and so awesome about a lifted Golf
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LOW
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This is a R32 engine in this MK2
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It was good to see the local boys from Black forest industries
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The APR booth was full of performance parts
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VW test drive booth
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This is such a clean VR6 engine swap in this MK2
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I always take VW cabby pictures
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Test drive a VW at a VW car show, redundant, or brilliant
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You could even test drive a VW.
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The folks at APR were doing ehaust and fuel pump installs on site.
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Super clean Golf
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a sea of VWs and people
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This Caddy was BRIGHT green!
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Another VR6 swap. This one has a rare intake that was not on US spec cars. I don’t remember if this was a MK1 or MK2 .
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More VR6 engine swap. I love it
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Custom Roof Rack. Remember this for a project I am doing with the black cabby.
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Got to see a few really nice Caddy pick ups.
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More Custom VW
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VW beetle on air bags. Lots of VWs with air ride suspension
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Custom Jetta Sport Wagon provided by Keffer VW.
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Custom VW Beetle that a VW dealer brought. I LOVE that roof rack.
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This looks like a 1.8t in a MK2. I am not 100% sure, please correct me if I am wrong.
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Lowered Passat Wagon
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Custom VW interior. Anyone know who did this interior?
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Cool VW Wheel
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The folks from Meguiars car care products interviewing folks at Southern Worthersee, how cool!
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Custom Engine Swap
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Some Audi performance
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The police were being really cool to the people that were not total idiots
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Unitronic doing ECM flashes at Southern Worthersee
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Unitronic doing ECM flashes at Southern Worthersee
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This was a TDI Cabrio from Canada at Southern Worthersee.
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This was a TDI Cabrio from Canada at Southern Worthersee
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Awesome Audi wagon at Southern Worthersee. This is one of my favorites
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Old school VWs at Southern Worthersee
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The nicest VW bus at Southern Worthersee
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The offical Southern Worthersee Banner
Thanks to everyone that was involved. It was also great to meet all of you. To the ones that I didn’t get a chance to talk to, I am really sorry.
None of those cars belong to me, but that is a great collection of cars in one place. Thanks for posting all of these pictures. I love that VW bus. Classic. And that custom VW Beetle is pretty cool, too.
Thanks Lauren!
There were some sweet cars there!
Hey now! That is my bus and I appreciate the compliment. Wish there had been more aircooled vehicles at SoWo but we had a pretty fun gathering nonetheless.
My bus is a 1967 Riviera camper. Began life on February 20, 1967 as a panel van. Was shipped to the pacific northwest USA and converted to a camper by the Riviera company. It is wearing newer [albeit incorrect for the year but i love the old 50s paint schemes] palm green/sand green single stage paint (originally all white) and has been upgraded to a 1600 engine [from a ’71 bug] to take its power up to 57hp. The bus ain’t fast but it is fun!
I envy the car shows in the states we don;t really get anything like that here in europe
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