Updated Rule

The feedback we have received has been overwhelmingly positive - Thank You! We are very much looking forward to seeing the stickers you send and hearing your stories.

Based on feedback here is the update to the rules: Please include with your sticker and story a little information on where (and from whom) you found out about this blog. Was it random surfing? Did you receive an email from a co-worker, friend, family, spam? This information will be instrumental in helping us with the social networking piece of this project - you can be vague.

We are looking forward to hearing from you as we move forward and even more excited to start receiving stickers!

thanks p

Starting Photo

Here is the GTI with the starting stickers.

This Car Climbed Mt. Washington: we actually DID take the VW up and down Mt. Washington. It was part of this weekend we were up in the Great North Woods of NH and we were having a fantastic time. It was one of those weekends you are not quite ready to go back home so we decided to take a leisurely ride back home and headed South down a non-highway road. Again, the ride was beautiful and the closer we got to civilization the more we kept joking that we just wanted to turn the car around. All of the sudden out of nowhere this big sign in front of us was pointing and screaming (if signs could do that) and it read that if we went down this road on the left we could take our car to the top of Mt. Washington. We looked at each other and the decision was not talked about, it was made already! We rode down this road towards the base of Mt. Washington joking the entire time about whether or not the car would actually make it to the top and back! A park ranger in a hut gave us a bunch of directions, don't ride your brake or clutch, keep a good distance from the car in front of you, don't ever stop, yadda, yadda, yadda. Then he handed us this audio tape and sent us on our way. "Follow this road", he said and pointed off somewhere..... We were off - the clutch and brakes smelled really bad but she made it, the GTI actually made it up AND back! The audio tape gave us the history of the Mountain and kept talking about these cars actually racing to the top of the mountain in the early 1900's so in the back of our minds we KNEW the GTI would make it if these cars did time and time again. It was a very interesting ride, the views were specular and the audio tape was extremely educational and most importantly we got this cool sticker :)

CAZ: from the time I was a child my family has called me Caz. There is no reason for it, it doesn't mean anything and it doesn't even come close to being a shortened version of my name, but Caz it was, Caz it is and Caz it will stay! My sister-in-law lives in Western NY and there is actually a town called Cazenovia out that way. The town sells stickers with "CAZ" on them. Although the meaning of Cazenovia's Caz and my Caz are totally different the sentiment is really fantastic and I LOVE having it on the car!!!! I think my sister-in-law is the coolest for seeing this, thinking of me and sending it along - Thank You R :)

ERBA: ERBA stands to Essex River Basin Adventures and it is the place where we purchased some used sea kayaks, the gear and took lessons. Although the GTI couldn't handle the racks on the roof or probably the weight of the kayaks we didn't want our other car to have ALL the kayak glory, so we gave the GTI a sticker to make her just as important in our kayaking adventures :)

Dancing Bears: proud to be married to a dead head :)

Address

Please send stickers to:
P.O. Box 2084
Salem, MA 01970

don't forget a story....

Rules

For a sticker to find its home on the GTI we don't want anything religious, political or sexual. Each new sticker we receive will get a blog entry and will be posted with a photo of the GTI with its new sticker, so tell us stories! We want lots of stickers from different places: your vacations, your home town, where you currently live, places you have gone (or would like to go), your favorite outdoor adventure, band, restaurant, show, play, website, etc. Since we do live in Patriots Territory/Red Sox Nation you would have to write a very compelling story for any other teams... especially ones whose jerseys have pin strips :) We reserve the right to decide if the sticker is used or not.

The Beginning

Both my husband and I are VW enthusiasts. VW's have been part of my life since I learned to drive at 16, I have always owned a VW and I've had a few.... thankfully my husband has a mutual appreciation for the vehicle as well.

We currently own a 10 year old VW GTI and although the car is running fine the rust is slowly taking over her body. Our mechanic estimates it will be another year or so before the car becomes unsafe to drive from the rust. If this car could talk she would be babbling the adventures she has seen, for she has gone lots of places. We thought it fitting to express this on the outside.

We are looking to cover her up in her final years with lots of fun and adventure; this is where you come in. We want lots of stickers from different places: your vacations, your home town, where you currently live, places you have gone (or would like to go), your favorite outdoor adventure, band, restaurant, show, play, website, etc. Each sticker should come with a story, a story we can blog. We are looking for good, upbeat fun and adventure!

Our motivation to start this project now came from the beginning of summer and the travel season, we know you will be vacationing, going to fairs, enjoying different places, etc so we wanted to try and tap into that energy and get our GTI Sticker Quest project moving.

We look forward seeing your stickers and hearing your stories.