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well guys.

firstly i'd like to apologise to a few people we lost after the Hungry Jacks :P where we had typical hoons/idiots/police attracting behaviour.

A hasty departure saw a few left behind... so i apologise for that! I thought everyone was at their cars! :)

aside from that...

i must say that was a darn decent cruise. very successful for a bloody clod/windy night.

There were about 30 cars (did i count correctly?) at the first meet point which is superb too see!!! :P

mmm... pity for those who had to boot at parkville as the remainder of the cruise got better and better with the run after Sunbury.

If you were there you'd totally agree the roads are awesome :uh-huh:

So thankx for everyone for coming... i saw heaps of people taking pics and what not so please post them up for everyone to have a nice good geezer at them all!

So hopefully the weather get nicer the next time!

I'll look around for other cruises to go on and stuff and get more organised!

thanks again! great night

ash

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Originally posted by lowlux

hahahaha hey ash u took them down wildwood rd huh,  how mad is that road and the turns are MAD!!!!!

yep.

wildwood the one of gellies.

mmm... lucky i got a 260mk'h speedo... ;)

but yeah!

thanks everyone for comin out!

i wanna see the pics.

Nice work Ash, Thanks heaps for organising Friday nite. Top Job all round. Just a shame I wasn't able to go the whole way.

Did everyone else soil themselves when we rolled past the booze bus just before the Kew Blvd? That was pretty damn annoying. I had a headlight out so I was sure they'd spot it and nail me.

Luck was on my side tho.

Al: Post all your pics if you haven't already

Evil: Cheers for the word on the busted headlight man, I went straight off an replaced it.

great cruise guys, pity about those a$$hole burnout heroes :-(

the single lane road was mad as hell, although i almost got pwn3d by a cat :-P not to mention my lack of turbo heh

i have a few picks, i'll grab them at lunch today if not tomorrow and post them up. We also went on a sunday cruise to Black Spur with eXclusive so you can check out a few pics from that too. Links soon!!

sweet cruise ash, well done... when's the next one where's my prize for coming 1st ;) love the narrow road, wtf was with the cattle bridge tho, glad my car isn't as low as everybody elses!!!

shame about the a$$hats with the bmw/skyline/oldcar! kinda makes us look bad coz he had a skyline and he wasn't even with us... stupid locals

fattdex has shopped all the pics so ill get him to stick them up l8r today, might go home at lunch and grab them, kinda left in a hurry this morning...

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