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Hey Guys!

Awesome morning, was great to meet everyone and I have some great pics to!

and thanks to Andy for the drive, I think youve manged to sell dad on a Stagea :mellow:

when we get the money, will start making further plans,

Got a great shot of the 5 cars infront of me drivin on the way upto Lithow, Sorry Mike, You didnt make it in, HINT: Oh and next time Mike, Try not to drive away with your boot up! :O

Well, i had a great time.

Thanks for making me feel welcome everyone, and a biiiiig thanks to mike for organising the trip.

Great road for the stageas to get a workout on.

Now, i bet that bloke driving the commodore that was in the gully is thinking right now..." Hmmmm, that wouldn't have happened in a stagea..." :D

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great to see a good time was had by all it was my pleasure guys to get it organised and to meet you all in person just a shame the others couldnt make it which was understandable concidering we didnt know if the rd would be open. i will try to organise a new meet for early next year prob early feb so will give all a chance to get things organised and keep that weekend open .when i edit the pics i will post them and if you guys would like to put yours on a disk and pass em on to me ill put em on one cd and send you all a copy

thanks mike it was great fun. the climb out of lithgow was a hoot.

i'm working on shrinking some pics now so hopefully i'll get something posted.

adam time to update the name or at least avatar to 'special de luxe'

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thanks mike it was great fun. the climb out of lithgow was a hoot.

i'm working on shrinking some pics no so hopefully i'll get something posted.

adam time to update the name or at least avatar to 'special de luxe'

lmfao

the cruise was awesome, i had a cracker of a time, especially in the twisty hills on the way back from lithgow with the two lanes.

here are sum pics of the sydney meet http://www.frappr.com/?a=myphotos

i cant get the page to load mike.

Hey Guys!

Awesome morning, was great to meet everyone and I have some great pics to!

and thanks to Andy for the drive, I think youve manged to sell dad on a Stagea ;)

when we get the money, will start making further plans,

Got a great shot of the 5 cars infront of me drivin on the way upto Lithow, Sorry Mike, You didnt make it in, HINT: Oh and next time Mike, Try not to drive away with your boot up! :)

tell ur dad he is more than welcome to buy my stagea when he is ready ;)

tell ur dad he is more than welcome to buy my stagea when he is ready ;)

Yeh Andy, Dad was considering it but the 26k is slightly out of his price bracket thanks to your awesome mods! ;)

Umm. If I could find out the fuel economy for our car now.. I know its an older model n all but it does quite well on fuel would you possibly offer a trade with a sum of money goin your way also?

It is still a wagon lol.. Still manual, Runs beautifully Think about it??*scringes face* :)

Ill talk to dad n see what he is comfortable with. Time to put on my sales cap. see what working 2 weeks at Beacon lighting has taught me lol.

Cheers Andy

if $26k is out of your price range,how's just under $25k? there's a yellow S2 at Edward Lee's on parramatta road that's been there since I bought my S2 almost a year ago. noone will touch it because of the colour it would seem,as it's fine otherwise. I sat in it when it was at E&M Unique, and bought my silver S2 the same day from them,which was out back and not fully delivered at the time. go check it out and offer the guy $20k. if it's still there after chrissie,try again,he might take the offer,you never know. ;-)

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