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Being a rotary man and this being my first Skyline Cruise, I was impressed with the turn out and the attitude of all members.That many cars of the one make and model, looked pretty special.

I liked the cruise, and pretty well organised, no one really got lost.

Hey I was in this car here,(baldy head blue jumper wearing person)

http://www.hipsi.net/newy/mini-100_1459.JPG

We left about 2:45, and the highway patrol turned up at the same time, any problems? Compared to an Ausrotary cruise all the Skylines were very street safe and legit.

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caine, dave and i followed them (weapn etc) through newcastle before they were rude and ran off! we had NO IDEA where we were going.. but hey its all good! we found our way! they did turn eventually... we were still there.. they didn't really seem overly friendly! oh wells!

Whoa :)

They can't have stayed for long then, 'cos we left at 4pm.

They were all there when we left :(

Where did you guys go?

went to noodle box for some food! Was sooooooooo good! Then a bit of a drive around newie with Jeff, Mar55s and Alien then home!

Being a rotary man and this being my first Skyline Cruise, I was impressed with the turn out and the attitude of all members.That many cars of the one make and model, looked pretty special.

I liked the cruise, and pretty well organised, no one really got lost.

Hey I was in this car here,(baldy head blue jumper wearing person)

http://www.hipsi.net/newy/mini-100_1459.JPG

We left about 2:45, and the highway patrol turned up at the same time, any problems? Compared to an Ausrotary cruise all the Skylines were very street safe and legit.

that car was blowing quite a bit of smoke!

went to noodle box for some food! Was sooooooooo good! Then a bit of a drive around newie with Jeff, Mar55s and Alien then home!

Hahaha, I wish I'd paid more attention :)

I was sooooo hungry on the way home... haha

I just want to say thank you all for coming along. It was just a good turn out. i had so much fun driving with all of you guys.Thank for the people who stayed behind me as i was holding them back to wait for the others. Everyone behaved, well done. It was good to meet the Newie crew.

I hope we can do this again, sorry you guys had to follow a SS ute, dont worry all i will lead into a new skyline soon.

Thank you all again and have fun :D

P.S Pic looks awsome

JEFFRO

that car was blowing quite a bit of smoke!

Engine is fine, just been rebuilt. However the head service place hasn't done too good a job. Bloody valve stem seals are leaking oil into combustion chamber.

Car still goes fine. will be fixed shortly.

So what did the highway cops want?

They pulled me up in Norms GTR for a sketchy left turn - we were cut off by some commonwhore driver, so i did the dodgy turn to avoid losing the group

i explained we were from Sydney and this cruise was meant for just after the Cronulla riots and that we through it would be a smart move to re-schedule, today being the new date

Engine is fine, just been rebuilt. However the head service place hasn't done too good a job. Bloody valve stem seals are leaking oil into combustion chamber.

Car still goes fine. will be fixed shortly.

So what did the highway cops want?

oh good to hear! Goodluck with it!

oi! you bastard, thought i woundn't see this didn't ya!

a no show by you too!

Not at all!!

We drove all the way to The Tuggerah turn off to meet yous!

all us Newcastle Cars cruised to Twin servos to meet up with yous as we thought thats what was happening.

However somebody Rang Superman and you guys had already cruised past twin servos without stopping.

We then went to foreshore and couldnt see you guys anywhere so we went amd had lunch.

then a guy at Big Als told us there were all these Skylines at Bar beach.

So we drove there and you guys had already left.

Oh well :sick:

caine, dave and i followed them (weapn etc) through newcastle before they were rude and ran off! we had NO IDEA where we were going.. but hey its all good! we found our way! they did turn eventually... we were still there.. they didn't really seem overly friendly! oh wells!

Hey Sorry!!

Didnt realise!!!

We went to get lunch we also had no ide where they all were!!!

yes, wtf. i would of thought we would of gone to the for shore at least.

not drive up ,park,get some hot chips then drive home fkinmad......

did i miss something? clearly. an

oh well if i actually got there on time.. i spose i could of joined in :)

anyways thanx jeff. it was "something to do" :P

now i dont want to sound like a sook... but can i just ask how long you guys actually stayed in newcaslte?? im not tryin to have a dig or anything its just i went down to the twin servos too... by the time i got back and got my car u guys had already left... i just thought you all would have visited for a little longer... thats all....

its just i went down to the twin servos too... by the time i got back and got my car u guys had already left... i just thought you all would have visited for a little longer... thats all....

A common problem at most cruises!

lol!!! fair enough dude!! your car looks awesome!! and that 33 gtr with you... :( our little group consisted of a dark 32 gtr and silver 33 gtst... we managed to find our way after ALOT of calls! lol!

that 33 gtr was me :O and to bad we waited at the twin servos for some time for you guys to show up, and drive right passed us :(

Guys i am so sorry for all the missed uderstanding, my fone did not stop ringing all the way to newcastle. i had people calling me to wait for them asking me directions, people keeps stoping, half of the crew took off ahead, had to organised regroup, some missed the exits , trying to organiseed the sydney crew, central coast crew, and the newie crew, then had to oganised photo shoot....im only one man i cant do 100 things at the time.

Some sydney crew stopped at the Twin caltex to meet the others and some were at twin shell also, we had lots of cars and we cannot fit them all, thats is why i have decided to just keeps going to to newie + little groups have organised to meet us there, + we were behind time as i have to hold the group back doing 80km/h on the F3 so i can wait for the others, i just wanted to get everyone together sorry if it didnt workout the way it did. I will try to make it better next time if you guys werent happy with this :(

Thankyou for all the ppl who listened to my instructions, Darko for helping with the photoshoot, for all you guys who paricipated, Sydney crew, central coast crew, Newcastle POLICE and the newie crew for being very friendly.

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