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Hello All,

Well by now a lot of you know that I have been selected to be the SAU Official events coordinator. I had hoped to have had some "Official" events announced and running by now but untill we get Cams affiliation it is just not worth the risk.

The reason the club needs Cams affiliation is simple really, they cover events held by SAU for Public liability insurance. This is required for any event that we hold as a "Club", Track Days, Skid Pan days, Cruises, and even BBQ's etc.

Some more major events that are already on their way are a Show and Shine day being planned for the long weekend in October and planning for that is well under way.

A Car Rally was being planned for the end of May but is now going to be at another date as Cams won't be meeting untill the end of may and will hopefully give us our affiliation then.

Other events that have been suggested:

Hill Climbs

BBQ's

Track Days

Skid Pans

Cruises

Information events

Driver Training

Group days at racing events

etc

Some of these events as mentioned before are already being planned. Some are still being looked into. If people know of events that they have done and would like to do as a club then please put the ideas in this thread... If you want to help out organising an "Official" SAU Event than please put your hand up. Or if you want to be on a list of those that are available to volunteer their time to cooking a BBQ, or giving out club info at a stall set up at another event than again please post up you interest here... everybodies help is greatly appreciated.

If you have any questions please feel free to PM me and I'll answer them to the best of my knowledge or endevour to find out what you are after.

Cheers all and thank you all for being so patient,

Dan.

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Golf and Wine... if only all of us had your budgets!!!! I shall add them to the list... I had actually thought of golf days but thought nah, nobody would be interested... silly me!

Originally posted by Majanal

Golf and Wine... if only all of us had your budgets!!!! I shall add them to the list... I had actually thought of golf days but thought nah, nobody would be interested... silly me!

Dan, as a social club we should venture into non car related activities. so, I second what Ben said. More mud wrestling events please. Now I know Ben wants to be a part of the actual wrestling but I was thinking more along the lines of getting our better halves to do it. Muahahah, won't that be fun:uh-huh:

or, we can pay some phoar looking chicks like sophie monk and natalie imbruglia. i don't know, tell em it's for charity for God's sakes. they'll go for that.

ignore my early morning ramblings. take note of the first sentance though

All of the above please dan. :P

All these events are fantastic, I know what what ever we do as a group from gold to mud wrestling would be fantastic.

good work!

As for the car rally! I am SOOOOO their when it all comes together with cams etc.

I used to organise lan nights.. big effort to get them going, had a few big ones.. 80 computers in a room is a weird sight, had a quake 2 game so big you had to wait to respawn.

tosh, cant you just lend him your pr0n dvd set? I know that all 45 dvds took you a while to download, but I am sure franky will look after them.

I propose an "Engine rebuild weekend" .

Y'all come round to mine, and take the farqued donk out - rebuild the farquer to bullet proof.

Then run boost her up to 26 PSI and take her down to EC drags, and see what breaks next !

he he he:D




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