When April comes around, the talk and excitement building up to Early Edition echoes throughout social media. It’s not surprising, as ‘EE’ is the next biggest event to follow Ultimate Dubs back in March. If you missed that, then EE is the show to debut your car at, and let’s face it, it’s still early on in the show calendar. Held at The Saints stadium in Northampton, the Edition38 crew take over the venue every year to host the pre-show to their established Edition38 ‘Show & Shine’ later on in the year. However, Early Edition has grown considerably over the past couple of years, making it nearly as big. Well, usually that is… This year was a little different, but more on that later! As per usual, we were surrounded by an outstanding selection of cars, traders, food and drink (including the all-important bar), plus glorious weather. We tried to capture as much as we could from the main show itself, in addition to the surrounding car parks with anything that took our fancy.
Matty Loveridge’s Mk1 Golf Swallowtail on Air Lift suspension & BBS E76’s
RIIVA Design’s Mk6 Golf wagon on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform VCE’s
Warwick French’s Audi RS3 on Air Lift suspension & 19″ Fifteen52 Tarmac 348’s
Olly Barwell’s Audi S3 on Air Lift suspension & BBS LM’s
Amar’s Audi A5 on Air Lift suspension & Vossen CV7’s
Alex Rogers’ Polo GTI on Air Lift suspension & BBS RC041′s
Jack Dinsdale’s Audi TT on Air Lift suspension & Fifteen52 Tarmac’s
Still Static’s Audi B8 on H&R suspension & 21″ Vossen LC105-T’s
Georgie Marlow’s Mk1 Golf on Air Lift suspension & BBS RM’s
Alex Collins’ Audi A1 on HP Drivetech suspension & Vossen VFS-1’s
Steve Fraser’s Audi S3 saloon on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform OZT’s
Jack Irwin’s Mk2 Golf on Air Lift suspension & Votex wheels
Joe Stackman’s Polo Coupe S on hydraulic suspension & PLS Hockenheim’s
Reece Ward’s 6n2 Polo GTI on Air Lift suspension & Extreme Offset wheels
GRMnorthampton’s Mk7 Golf on Airrex suspension & Cast13 wheels
Adam Hodge’s Audi S3 on H&R suspension, Lamborghini BBK & 20″ Audi Rotor’s
Ryan Castleman’s bagged Mk5 Jetta wagon on custom built Audi A8 Winter wheels
Adam Baggott’s TFSI-swapped Mk1 Golf Cabriolet on Airdynamiks suspension & BBS RM’s
Sole Flavours’ Mk4 Golf on WORK VSXX wheels
James Munro’s bagged Porsche 356 Speedster
Stuart Gray’s Mk5 Golf R32 on Air Lift suspension & BBS Super RS’s
Matt Wright’s Mk3 Golf VR6 on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform CCV’s
Eddie Edwards’ Audi A1 on HP Drivetech suspension
Sam Curtis’ Mk2 Golf GTI on Air Lift suspension & custom-built BBS RA splits
Stan Jalhay’s Mk2 Golf GTI on OZ 35th Anniversary wheels
Owen Burnell’s Mk4 Golf R32 on Air Lift suspension & OZ Super Leggera III’s
Matt Woodgate’s Porsche 997 on HP Drivetech/Air Lift suspension & Rotiform LHR’s
Gordon Milne’s bagged Mk4 Golf R32 on carbon BBS GT’s
Andy Rowell’s Mk5 Golf on Air Lift suspension & stepped-up BBS RS’s
Rob Palmer’s bagged Mk3 Golf VR6 on ceramic polished BBS RS
Tariq Alam’s static Audi A1 on Verein Club One’s
Jordan Hill’s static Mk2 Golf on OZ Fittipaldi’s
Dan Birkinshaw’s bagged Mk5 Jetta on BBS GT004’s
Kats Giles’ Audi Q3 on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform CCV’s
VRS Northampton’s Mk2 Golf VR6 on Compomotive’s
Daniel Wasilewski’s bagged Phaeton on Bentley’s
Lee Curtis’ Audi A6 Allroad on Air Lift suspension & 20×10 Rotiform CCV DDT’s
Charlie Dunn’s B7 Audi RS4 on Air Lift suspension & 20″ Rotiform SPF’s
Matt Sullivan’s Mk4 Golf R32 on Air Lift suspension & Rota MC3’s
Dave Clee’s static UP! on Porsche D90’s
Jason Bowes’ Audi A5 on Air Lift suspension & Vossen VFS-2’s
Michael Ralph’s Mk4 Golf R32 on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform IND’s
Julian Loose & Michelle Waters’ Audi B5’s
James Manners’ Audi B5 RS4 Avant on Air Lift suspension & Rotiform LVS’s
Marc Jarvis’ Mk6 Golf on Air Lift / AccuAir suspension & 19″ VIP Modular VS220’s
Al Langford’s Audi B8 A4 Avant on Air Lift suspension & 3pc Rotiform IND’s
Volkswagen Santana
Steven Doe’s BMW E21 on Air Lift / AccuAir suspension & CCW D110’s
(click here to check out our feature on Steven’s E21)
Mitch Davis’ BMW E36 on Air Lift / AccuAir suspension & Team Dynamics centrelock wheels
Adam Willstead’s BMW E46 on Air Lift suspension & OZ Futura’s
Marcin Kobylański’s BMW E28 525i on ACS Type1’s
Chris Phillips’ static Lexus IS200 on Enkei NT03+M’s
(click here to check out our feature on Chris’ Lexus)
Harrison Conner’s static EOS on XXR 968’s
Sean Crompton’s static BMW E36 cab on Carline CM6′s
Craig Sims’ static BMW E28 on Rial wheels
If you are reading this but didn’t actually attend the show, it may look like it was rather busy from the photographs. In reality, the turnout at this year’s Early Edition was unfortunately about half of what it has been in the past. Who knows what could have actually caused this, but we think it might have had something to do with a lot of the usual suspects heading to Wörthersee in Austria earlier than usual. We also heard that the Show & Shine had changed to a pre-booked method – maybe most people didn’t know about this? With most of the public car parks full of perfectly worthy cars, the show venue itself had plenty of empty spots that could have easily accommodated them. All in all, it was rather disappointing and there was a definite feeling of this in the air from most people we spoke with. But what can you do…? Shit happens as we all know. No doubt the Edition38 team will learn from this and come back bigger than ever next year. We will still be there and you should be too!