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Well captainsane had just bought his S1 and was driving from Brisbane to Townsville. I suggested he stop over in rocky and spend then night, mainly so that such a tidy Stagea does not get written off or damaged because of driver lack of sleep ;) That and I always wanted to see what having two stageas in my driveway felt like, IT FELT GOOOOOD!

Well I had given him my work number and was due to finish work at 4pm, then a meeting popped up over the other side of the uni at 3pm, no problem, it was only a 10-15min meeting............ at 3:50pm I came sprinting out of the ITD building and hauled arse across campus to where my building was........ 3:57pm got to my desk to grab keys, sure enough there was a message on my phone....... CRAP, jump in my Stagea and haul arse across town, picking up a mate of mine on the way with a digital camera, got to our meet point and there he was, and man it looked wirerd, my first reaction was, WTF..... why is my car here, duh I am in my car :bonk:

Anyway we cruised passed the gardens and he was kind enough to agree to some snaps so we did and here they are:

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After that we went home, ate dinner, played a bit of poker, and the next morning he was off on his way :huh:

In my Garage, going to run on the 15"s until they are bald, paid as much for them as 2 new 18"s which I needed, so thought why not get them and then when they are bald go back to the 18"s and have a set of rims ofr "extra circular" activities :laugh:

Notice the lack of guage holder, I wonder why that is............... care to elabourate Rob? :P

Are you gonna mention guage holders in EVERY THREAD, cyrus...? lol ok mate im on it. Ill order some. I need 3 for me, 1 for you, 3 for a mates civic, and that should do it. 7.... like white on rice, bud.

PS much tread left on those tyres of mine bud?

CHeers for the roof, the meal and the cruise Cy. No Sightings of stageas in Townsville, though there are plenty of R32's around:)

If anyone knows some cruising groups in TOwnsville could you pm me? Like i said, plenty of skylines, lancers (yuK!) and american muscle doing laps of the strand on Friday night, but the only one i could talk to at the lights had no idea.

Again, thanks for the shelter and the mod ideas...

Cheers.

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