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Seeing we have been kindly allowed to have our regional chat thread, thought i might start the Central Queensland one. Please obied by the rules so this thread can stay open.

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So who went to the rally on Sat?

I was official CAMS starter fo SS4 & SS9.

Nothing like watching everything from Evo's to WRX's to 1600's to Skylines to Escorts to XB Coupes and even a souped up Jeep Wrangler to rpm limiter launches in the dirt!

Was just north of Yeppoon, Byfield, and had stages all through the state forest and the Ridges Resort, was a blast eh.

On the stage start, we had a good view of 3 corners which were downhill from us, so we got to see them blast off from the start and then hang it out around those just before starting the next car, usually a 2min break.

yeah i saw it on the news. I spent most of the weekend working ... I went to it a few years ago and it was good fun to watch, seems the cars have become faster, i think last time iwent there was 1 wrx and the rest were older cars.

I just got from gladstone for the weekend. Seems that imports are fairly well undiscovered down that way, most are stock or near stock and not too many - unlike rocky. A Big thanks to the dude in the green silver that gave me directions to where to get 98 ron fuel :P. Almost thought i might have to stick some dirty old 95 ron in the poor gtr :D

My old workplace used to own the "tip top" bread run up there and they had a worker quit at one days notice so they shipped me up there to lend a hand...

Plus we had to pick up a truck to bring it back to Brisbane. Doing a bread run was a change of pace. But ill leave starting at midnight to them and stick to me 9-5 job these days...

Ah k, gladstone isn't that bad of a place, if you can look past the industry everywhere. You can see that people down there earn more money that up here, the average car down there is worth a lot more than ones here in rocky.

here's a pic of my GTR in gladstone at the harbour :( It was real strange down there people seem to take notice of my car a lot more, I even had a few people take photos with their phones, that hasn't happened in rocky. Should try and organise a cruise down there and meet some of the Gladstone skyline/import owners down there :D

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I still get wierd looks when my car "sneezes".... otherwise if I turn the bov to 100% plumbback, lots of people look around to see what car made that "powerfull car" sound....... he he he he kepp looking around, wasnt my volvo :(

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