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Kudos to Charmaine for organising it and Dan for driving me down, great intro to a GTR :D Lets hope that old lady has short-term memory loss :D

Anyways, some pics... my first real car shots so feedback would be nice :huh:

http://photos.galoresoftware.net/main.php?g2_itemId=7625 (Attachments don't work ATM)

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Was awesome cruise! Kudos to Charmaine and friends who put the effort into the cruise! Weather was excellent and was good to see a good turnup of cars!

ps. sorry for freakin ya out at maslins! :D hahaa

Awesome cruise Charmaine, good to meet ya and also some new peeps.

So who on the 2ways said "slow down Luke is having trouble getting over speed bumps" lol

i'll give ya some money for a copy of high res pics if u like.

thanks

Hey everyone.

I just want to say thanks to everyone who came out. I had a fantastic time getting to know your cars, but not so much yourselves lol. I do believe i had a chat to a few of you but forgive me because I probably didn't catch your name lol.

Spot on Min, the weather was unbeleivably great! I honestly did not expect the weather to be that perfect - sun out - after saturdays weather. But nah was great cruise all up.

Sorry about the little mishaps along the way, for example the first stop: fk me!! i did not expect it to be THAT NARROW!!!! JEEEEEZ! LOL

So sorry about that guys. Also didnt expect every tom dick and harry to be in the carpark that followed either. But all was well as we just skipped it anyways :D

Haha that was Nene that said you were having trouble on the speed humps. They were not in the plan either :D One way street didn't help me very much when we couldn't turn down it.

And Min - Scared the sh!t outta me at first. I was watching that light post hahaha. gotta give us some heads up next time lol :D:D

But yep. Great fun for my first SAU cruise, awesome bunch of people, i got some really decent shots and now im just trying to find the time inbetween school to sort them into folders of whos car and who owns it.

Pics won't be up for a bit.

But speaking of pics - I didn't know how to approach the matter, but I'm happy to burn peoples photos onto cd's for them at the original high quality res. but that means forking out some money to buy some blank cd's. So i figured say $3 for a cd (let me know if thats not reasonable lol) and that should cover my costs of buying them(EDIT: and the MASS amount of time and effort im going to put into touching them up a lil bit with photoshop ;) and burning them all). Feel free to send me a PM and i can tell you how many shots i took of your car. All cd's will have the group shots on them as well as individual car photos.

Sorry if i didnt take many photos of YOUR car :) Cos i know i probably didnt get round to everyone - and plus my memory card filled up with 505 photos.

Cheers guys!

:huh:

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its just not the cd's. Its the time and effort she puts in. Camera's arnt cheap these days. Anyone could go out and takes pics but the high quality pics you guys will be recieving will look awesome.

Keep up the good work Charmaine and look forward to the next one.

its just not the cd's. Its the time and effort she puts in. Camera's arnt cheap these days. Anyone could go out and takes pics but the high quality pics you guys will be recieving will look awesome.

Keep up the good work Charmaine and look forward to the next one.

Fair enough.

Likewise in thought, keep those cruises coming!

nice work with the pics stormy normy.

im happy to fork out a few bucks for a disk as long as you got pics of the blue 32 night kids mobile :huh: its the 1 i kept naggin ya's to take pics of if you could clean that shit stain exhaust n rear bumper that would be sweet too :D

and min you need to stop ya complaining about your car, looks pretty clean to me. i didnt even notice the funny chop on the bumper untill you pointed it out n i think you hurt ya cars feelings n thats why its refusing to start for you :D

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Hey Charmaine and Jack, wiked cruise, great met spots!!!

Sorry for being late every spot haha, bit slow on the day!

Yeah ill pay $3 for a CD!! Happy with that.

xox kahli xox

sounds like it was a pretty decent day.

was gonna rock up, but i didnt get out of work til after 7 am, so i really wasnt in the mood for driving.

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