Super-spotted Thread

[Snowman]

A couple of days later I went to show my car to a local sponsor and he has this as his personal toy. Its one of only 7 RHD versions in the world (De Tomaso Guara)

[Snowman]

And finally I blew my front diff up on the 1st competative day over west and some boys put their hands up to help fix the car and when the garage was opened inside there was these 2 little toys. (Who knew there were so many R35's in Perth)

[phunky_monkey]

That De Tomaso is pretty cool. Didn't know they made anything other than the Pantera. Sort of looks like an XJ220

[Leewah]

Just saw James' orange Ford driving down Church St at 1635 with trade plates on. Kinda stands out being orange and having a giant #15 on the side.

[Jamezilla]

Hooray for trade plates I say

That car is so stupid - I love it!

[Jamezilla]

And super-cool spotting Snows. That's up there with the Ascari Ecosse (one of my QLD customers has one - 1 of only 9) as a ludicrously rare car to spot, not just in Aus but world-wide.

Big D - Pop in and visit Crazy Howard, he has a Mangusta in his shop and there are a few Longchamps around in Melbourne (I have seen 2x coupes and a spyder).

[R31Nismoid]

Someone on another forum - Port Melbourne

yeah i know where this is garaged, it sits with a lot of other expensive cars.

very nice when you get up close and see it in person, very cool!

[inark]

i know this isnt super... not even closely... but i was under the impression they werent released until the end of the year. I saw (about 3 months ago... didnt realise they werent released yet) one of those Cadillac CTS sedans in Endeavour Hills.

theyre actually quite nice.Also spotted this on ebay... thought it was quite a nice price http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other-Makes...1QQcmdZViewItem

[baron25]

I always liked Noble's 'cept for that ridiculous shoehorn moulded onto the bootlid, the GT wing is enough!.

But the M15 on the other hand.... *prints off picture and goes to toilet*

[dezz]

seen a black NSX 2 days in a row on the ring road...

[paulr33]

i saw the Red GT40 that james had the other week on collins st this morning

[llama_au]

Not a car but I spotted Driver Dynamics Kevin (kevwrx) at Garage Cafe last night. Didn't want to interrupt his dinner.

[Lauz_90]

Spotted 20+ Porsche's on the way home from Foutain Gate today, I was driving towards Warragul & they were going the other way... any idea of where they came from?

[Jamezilla]

Lauren - that would have been the Porsche Club hillclimb at Scooby Doo Mountain (Haunted Hills in Gippsland)

[Lauz_90]

Lauren - that would have been the Porsche Club hillclimb at Scooby Doo Mountain (Haunted Hills in Gippsland)

Ah ok.. thanks for that

[Snowman]

Spotted a whole bunch of LHD Audi R8's down at Phillip Island yesterday.

I even took one for some laps

[Grant]

Spotted 20+ Porsche's on the way home from Foutain Gate today, I was driving towards Warragul & they were going the other way... any idea of where they came from?

Germany.

[Lauz_90]

Germany.

i nearly laughed.... but not quite

[GTRgeoff]

Geezus Audi are serious about attacking Porches market sector aren't they?

Good to see though. Saw my first on the GC yesterday with ISMINE plates. Very low and wide hipped. Makes it a very serious looking car.

So how was the drive Snowy? We had Mark and Russ show up at our recent Nissan Track day a couple of weeks back with the R35. I didn't see it run as I was in the same session that Russ took it on the paper clip and he pulled a 57s on the Sprint layout, with 4 wet corners a 1, 2, 4 and 5, and 1 inch of lying water between 3-4, on standard factory rubber. I think I'll have to hock the 40ft yacht off and get one. BTW this old cripple could only manage 1.01s in the same session.

[Snowman]

Jeff we timed 2 laps - did a 1.50.0 and a 1.50.2. Apparently Christian Murchisan did a high 1.48 earlier in the week.

Not bad for a production car on street rubber (Pirelli P Zero). I sure as hell was impressed. Not to mention I did 40 laps in 2hrs and the car was still perfect at the end (brakes fine, water 90degs and oil 100degs)

FYI Christian did some hot laps in the RS4 which we timed at 1.55.2 - so the R8 is considerably quicker.