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Maybe worth a note - but club entries need to be in by 6th June (2.5 weeks) or they cost $200 a pop.

We need 6 or more cars (each cost $100) and a bit of a think about stand design/theme. Renting a powerpoint is $60.

Maybe some PS2s with GranTurismo and all the Skylines loaded? If we can get enough consoles & TVs - set up iLink races? Just a thought.

I can arrange AV rental :)

Also - despite the uh, badness, that happened to my car - I'm still keen to enter it (as long as we secure our area). Can't be too careful these days.

ok guys

im sorry ive been a bit distracted lately and put this off for a while

im gonna get my act together

and after the show off im really motivated to get a stand up and running for the MAS

i saw the way people looked at skylines at the show off and im sure theyd be even more impressed with what sau has to offer..

i want to call a meeting for tomorrrow night .. get everyone together who wants to have their car in the stand..

we can go over ideas and pick out cars that are worth entering

i dont wanna have the task off rejecting peoples for the stand cause basically we want eye catching cars not stock as rock

so please only enter if u know ur cars got what we need for the stand

is tomorrow to early to call a meeting???

WELL IF EVERYONE COULD CONTACT ALL THE SKYLINE OWNERS THEY KNOW WITH NICE SHOWY CARS TO ATTEND

TOMORROW NIGHT WOULD BE GREAT

THE EARLIER THE BETTER

PROBABLY SOMEWHERE HALF WAY .. SAY IN THE CITY.. OR DONCASTER PANCAKE PARLOUR .. WE COULD GET THE BACK ROOM AND THERES PLENTY OF PARKING..

Although I have plans on Sunday day&night, I guess I'll try to squeeze a couple hours out of the GF time to come to this meeting.

Lets just hope it isn't a case of standing around for a couple hours chinwagging and then nothing happening from it.....

thanks leewah .. appreciated..

im gonna try get together all the info we need to know regarding the MAS

i guess if the weather is crappy

once everyone has turned up we can find a place to sit down and have a small meeting

i need to push at this so everyone gets themselves together and gets their cars ready

so theres no last minute delays

money has to be in my june

i dunno.. far as i know nobody has enough rice to go with their lines to warrant it.. i mean there are plenty of nice ones, but nothing other than the big powered ones. get BIGPSI and things to enter, i think he is still selling his line - its a good place for it.

Here is my nominations anyway:

Steve's old PHAT32 - chase down the new owner from m**r (i think it was somebody from there that bought it) and get 'em to defect..do ur stuff mz defctor

R32pwr - the 396rwkw thing (of course, but i am sure dr_drift will be trying to pull a separate BMT stand)

BIGPSI and his beasty.

Meg's Cefiro (for something different).. although u might have to get it towed there :)

Jamez GTR

Leewahs GTR

R31nismoid and his GTS-R

Possibly Jet's 33 but as long as he ****s off the mechanic's car seat covers and that giant clock on his dash :P

Maybe DJ_lethal's R33 GTS-T ..thats pretty nice.. he's got a bit of rice..gotta get that scratch fixed, blah, blah, but if u hassle his ass he'll go in..

Vickii knows some nice ricey skylines, but i think many of them will be representing other clubs, but can always ask wether they want to front our stand.

what about a representation from the 34 brigade? - namely the ylwgtr and/or the UPI gtr?

IMO a 34 GTR would not need to be riced up at all because they are fairly rare - so a good opportunity for people to actually SEE them up close :)

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