Phatboy

Wow it was Silver R34 GT 4-door day today. Thought the same car was stalking me around, but it was actually three separate identical cars driven by three separate asian guys, with number plates all beginning with U but with different second digits 1100: On Victoria Pde, West Melb 1600: Leeds St, Footscray 1605: Barkly St, Footrscray Also a Silver R32 GTR on Victoria Pde at 1545

Just came back from the Motor Show... some pretty nice cars. Wish they'd actually let people into the expensive cars, but they're probably paranoid someone will scratch the interior. Highlights were the BMW M1 concept car, Lexus LF-A, and the "Autosalon"-spec Toyota Yaris. Pity my camera ran out of batteries 10 mins in... no photos sorry.

80% of back pain gets better by itself, and a lot of pain may be from the paravertebral muscles (muscles around the spinal cord) spasming. Make sure you have something that can be operated on first eg., demonstrated disc protrusion/nerve root impingement on MRI. Spinal surgery is not without its risks - paraplegia being the most serious one, although extremely rare. There is about 15-20% recurrence of disc protrusion. If you have private health insurance that helps a lot. In the end, it really doesn't matter whether you go with a neurosurgeon or orthopaedic surgeon, as long as they are reputable. The best spinal surgeon in Melbourne is probably Peter Turner. David de la Harpe is good also, as someone mentioned. Both are orthopaedic surgeons. If you have nothing that can be fixed with conventional surgery, Professor Peter Teddy is the way to go. He is a neurosurgeon who specialises in chronic back pain. He can trial you on nerve stimulators eg., little devices on the skin, which help a lot of people with intractable, otherwise inoperable pain. If these work well, he can implant a permanent electrode into your spinal nerves to decrease the pain. You will need private health insurance to access these. You can find all three surgeons by googling.

Niceness.... C63 AMG black series yeah? I reckon looks better in black though If I had that I would stop driving my Skyline.

1700: Silver R33 GTS-T with huge orange decals on Hyde St, Newport. 1715: Black R32 GTS-T on Victoria Rd, Nth Melbourne 2000: Burgundy R33 GTS-T on Lygon St

Wonder where the 3rd guy is. They seriously should just deport them. That is the best punishment. Our jail system must be like a haven for them compared to back home. C'mon - free food, shelter, bed, TV, and knowing that you won't be killed is a much better deal for them. Of course they aren't afraid to go to jail. The fraction of immigrants who not only fail to contribute anything to society, but are a burden on taxpayers and even attack innocent people are not welcome and should go back home. I'm not paying tax to keep these dropkicks comfortable in our cushy jails, ready to be let loose again into the community after a token few years have gone by

Yeah.. modded Stag hardly scores a blip on cop's radar compared to a Skyline. At speed, most of them won't even know what it is and think it's probably a loud Volvo. I'd go the Stag rather than 240z as you already have one, it's newer and won't rust on you, and it's waaaay more practical.

Ugh.. yeah when I saw this on the news it just sickened me. Those bastards need to be deported. To be honest, if I was walking down there with my GF, I would have just kept on walking. I am not risking my GF's life for a stranger. If I were alone, and happened to be on the way home from kendo practice, that would be different I live in the Western suburbs, and I hate to see this happen. It's probably not a bad thing that there are asians around who can actually keep them in check in the area (I'm asian BTW - not being racist or anything).

Cool - dates for the GOR cruise are up. Didn't realise it was an overnighter - never been on one. I'm itching to see the details. I signed up as a new member last Saturday at the renewal day.... still haven't got member access When can I expect to get it please?

Around Parliament Stn at 1820, within a few secs and metres of each other (and after seeing the R33 GTR) - Black Bentley Continental GTC, Black Aston Martin ?model (still not good with differentiating AM models - probably DB9??)

White R33 GTR around Victoria Pde at 1815. Had Kamikaze Motors sticker.

Lol @ Xbox in front console Must've killed a herd of cows for all that leather

Awesome power. Apart from dragging, are you going to track it? Lol... subtle

LOL... that is just sad. Can't cope with the exhaust noise. I want to own a Porsche at some stage in my life... just not when I'm half-dead. Might fracture something trying to change gear or going over speed humps.

I couldn't find info on this at the RACV website? Going to an airshow is like one of the most dangerous things you can do Yeah... alternating every year b/n Melb and Sydney. So this will be Melb's last annual Motor Show! http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf...A25755100826EB0 At least we'll get a show every 2 years. Will definitely strive to attend every one. The other 5 capital cities don't have any international motor shows any more.

R33 drivers mistaking stock GT/GTTs for GTRs? LOL X 2

Lol no worries. Let me know if you want me to send you the full res pic.

Silver R33 on Victoria Pde around 1830. Only noticed it for a second, but had some huge gold/silver decals on the hindquarters.

Ah, ok that's cool. Would running on LPG decrease their power? Can you mod/turbo LPG-run engines? Not sure - haven't had any experience with that. I also had a look at the Ford Territory Turbo and F6X (has the same engine as the XR6T I believe). On paper it looks great but somehow it just doesn't appeal to me, looks pretty bland, and obviously not a true offroader like other larger 4WDs.

OIC... makes sense now. That's a pretty good conversion.

OK cool, I agree - no point arguing. From what I have heard and seen the 6L SS is a great car, especially in Sportwagon form - looks dead sexy. Let us know what you think of it when you get it, because the SS wagon was the other choice I had in mind if no suitable 4WD came out by the time I needed a 50k family vehicle. I'll just have to not offroad it then

Thanks guys. Yeah... -40rwkw is a pretty big difference. I uploaded the two photos I took of your ride to that photobucket account. Should be the first 2 pics. Here it is again. http://s384.photobucket.com/albums/oo281/m...20-%20Kamikaze/

I'm confused as to what NZMO actually is. It's an R34 with badges say GTS-R. WTH??

Bah - the attachment system freezes whenever I try to upload more than a few photos. Here it is on photobucket: http://s384.photobucket.com/albums/oo281/m...20-%20Kamikaze/ There are 32 pics of around 200kb each to aid loading. Some didn't turn out all too well - unfortunately neither my camera nor I are pro

You got it in the end? How does it go? Does it have decent space?