Dub Club
I think about 60 % of our members
are water-cooled and the rest air
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Dubs Collective
C
heryl Drew and Darren
Jones from the West
Midlands got together a
few years ago. Chery had
always been into camping
and her dream drive is a Splitty.
Darren had always worked in the
motoring world - either working
on race cars or building special
cars for Hollywood blockbusters.
Darren told her she couldn’t afford
a Splitty but suggested a T5 as an
alternative for the pair of them
to go camping in. They bought
one in 2014 and dived headfirst
into the camping and VW scene.
Over the following years they
realised that there were loads of
individual clubs for VWs, but they
tended to be model selective, or
for either air or water-cooled, or
sometimes just regional. Surely
it would be good if there was aclub that combined everybody
together with a love of VWs?
“We set up a club and called it
Dubs Collective, because we don’t
just love T5s, I also love Splits and
Bays, Darren loves MkI Golfs;
we just love the whole VW scene’
explained Cheryl. “We’d looked
around at the local clubs and they
seemed to be very specific and we
wanted to bring everyone together;
there is a world of knowledge in the
VW community, everything from
good camp site recommendations
to wheel sizes, so now we can
all share and work together,”
she continued. “It became very
popular, I think because there
were a lot of people who owned
maybe a T5 and a Split as well,
so there was a lot of crossover
owners between all the clubs.” So,
in effect Dubs Collective are a ‘oneDubs Collective - a one-stop shop for all your VW club requirements
Simon Cookesize fits all’ club where every type
of VW and owner are welcomed
with open arms. Thinking back
Darren reckons they had almost
1000 members by the end of the
first month, they are currently
close to almost 6000. The pair of
them are out and about promoting
the club at VW shows around
the country most weekends.
“We just want people to join
us and appreciate what we are
trying to do,’ confirmed Cheryl.
“I think about 60 % of our
members are water-cooled and
the rest air,” explained Darren.
When we hold our regular
meetings, we can get as many as
100 vehicles on a good day. We
hold our meeting at Himley Hall
(near Wolverhampton) and Himley
and Dudley Council have been
very supportive to the club since
we started.” It’s a nice central
location, and it’s very picturesque
with a large house, gardens, lake,
waterfalls, toilets, cafe and plenty
of parking - what more could you