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SHould be a good night out..... Havnt been on an SAU cruise for a while...

so i'm assuming you want a pm with details??

Heslo- you can do the same route next week, i'll send you the route i made if you want :domokun:

i would go next weekend but i'll be in Mildura

hey...was a good night

cheers to every1 that turned out

pics to follow (in the morning)

i really enjoyed the lil walk

Writeoff...everything is ok?..i saw u pulled over, but didnt have your # to check

and Vange said Andrew pulled over with you (i think vange was lying but)

*edit* shoutout to KISN & Amanda for organising the cruise :rolleyes:

Edited by andz69

yeah thanks guys for organising a fun and different cruise.

Oh, and I finally established that my speed-cut is still existent :):rolleyes:

nah I didn't pull over Andy - I went through Gawler to get fuel 'cos I was low-as!

Sounded like it was fun, i find it funny as that the lead car was a Commodore though lol :laughing-smiley-014:

i didnt really feel like driving the stupid commie out there, i have this thing for dirt roads and i wouldnt want to fling stones

up at your cars lol :rolleyes:

Edited by hybrid_turbo

I've only just arrived home. My GTR grew a woodpecker under the bonnet after the fun with Andy. It got louder as I raised the revs. I limped to Tillbrooks never going above 3000rpm and caught a cab home from there. Not happy... I fear the worst and I've only just gotten it back. The last time I went on a SAU cruise up north one of my coilovers seized. I'm yet to get home with a full car intact when going on a north bound SAU cruise. Not happy. I'll have to relive the joy of that cruise for a while... sob... sob

And no-one stopped to help me... sob ... sob

Thanks for organising the cruise I did have fun... especially the last 10 seconds of it.

Edited by writeoff

hey well thanks to all who came out, i wasn't expecting so many cars or people :rolleyes:

to the 2 guys who decided to overtake that horse thingo, you shouldn't have

you could've been patient and waited instead of overtaking and then waiting.

i got a few good photos b4 the camera decided to die (didn't work after visiting the

cemetery, even when i put some fully recharged batteries in)

tried to get a pic of the Miner statue but no luck, damn the camera.

got more pics coming but heres some for now :)

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I've only just arrived home. My GTR grew a woodpecker under the bonnet after the fun with Andy. It got louder as I raised the revs. I limped to Tillbrooks never going above 3000rpm and caught a cab home from there. Not happy... I fear the worst and I've only just gotten it back. The last time I went on a SAU cruise up north one of my coilovers seized. I'm yet to get home with a full car intact when going on a north bound SAU cruise. Not happy. I'll have to relive the joy of that cruise for a while... sob... sob

And no-one stopped to help me... sob ... sob

Thanks for organising the cruise I did have fun... especially the last 10 seconds of it.

aww man that really sucks, i have no idea where Tillbrooks is but if we had've see you on

the side of the road we would've stopped to help.

i'm glad you all had fun :rolleyes:

Vange was ther?? i didn't see him. maybe he was hiding from me?? :)

here's some more pics

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Thanks to all that came out.

Well...didn't see any dead people running around but 1 thing that was...well odd...when we all walked out the cemetery, mine and nightcrawlers alarms went off at the same time and stopped at the same time ? and we couldn't see anything/anyone or hear anything close by at the time...*insert scary x-files music here*...and the light in my car was on even though my doors were shut properly and locked...

AND i had a lil hand print on my car... :rolleyes:

Either way, looking forward to the next cruise !

And no-one stopped to help me... sob ... sob

:rolleyes:

that was our bad, as i posted above, both Vange and I didnt have your # to check on you

Next time (hopefully wont happen again), call the organiser, Vlad had his phone # on the bottom of the handout

*fingers crossed* hope the car is ok

Regards,

Andy

yeah sorry Dave I didn't realise you were stopping - I had to fang it to the nearest servo (in Gawler) as I was paranoid about running out of juice (nearly did too). Hope your woodpecker is ok. Hopefully it is just a blown off intercooler hose or something simple.

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