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Galston to Gosford Cruise 8:30pm 17/10/2003 (Formerly Midnight cruise - Friday 17th)


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alrighty then..................

if ure coming up to gossie i suggest terrigal they have food places open reasonably l8 plus a 24hr bakery.......... oh and there is a decent amount of carpark

plus if its a fri nite the cops wont be out as much cause the big nite up here is thursday

the pizza thing is easy cos as soon as i get tired i can piss off home. but this will be a better drive, i'll just cruise until i feel a need to make tracks. no excuses, I'm there :rofl:

History has shown that Friday night & Pizza at the beach on Terrigal has ended with cops :(

Depending on the number of people is Pizza at Gossie Station do-able ? Seems to attract much less cop attention than the carpark at Terrigal ...

I might have to be in for this, I have never come out on a skyline cruise before and would love to get some piccies. I will head hom from work then back to thornleigh(I work just off pennant hills road. City view Rd)

catch you guys then

mark

Originally posted by JiMb0

History has shown that Friday night & Pizza at the beach on Terrigal has ended with cops :(

I've been on the last 2 Terrigal runs and never even seen a cop let had trouble from cops (and we were parked 100m from a cop shop).

Originally posted by Mr R32 M-Spec

I might have to be in for this, I have never come out on a skyline cruise before and would love to get some piccies. I will head hom from work then back to thornleigh(I work just off pennant hills road. City view Rd)

catch you guys then

mark

Thats like 5mins from me!! How come i've never seen your car in the area? :(

Come cruising everyoneee!!! its gonna be fun! and a chance for us all to catch up :)

Originally posted by Moanie

Come on tosh!  do your thing! :) start a 'who is coming' list :(

and how long do you guys reckon the whole cruise will be?!

it's your cruise Mona.... I'm sure you can manage to do it

okies...please check the first post as i've updated it with a list of whose coming and the maybes....

Let me know if i need to make changes....or if you're intested in coming along...

We will be leaving Thornleigh Maccacs at 8:30 (i promise i won't be late!!) so try not to be late...i don't have alot of your numbers so not sure how it'll work if you are running late and still want to come along....

I will definatly be there. I haven't been out with you guys so can't miss this one.

I don't drive out of work during the day often. walk to the nearest shops and stuff. our carpark is F#$ed, takes 10 mins to get out of it cause you get parked in all the time.

Well i haven't been on one of your cruises before, blitz keeps telling me that i should come along, but i will need to call blitz to see where you are at around midnight, but will love to join the next cruise for sure.

Originally posted by Nismodified

CB radio to tell everyone how far behind i am during the cruise (wont be in use for long as its only got a 3km range)

Don't laugh that happened to me last time. Whats even funnier is within 3km of leaving Thornleigh I was already out of range going thru Galston :D

Taking a wrong turn and not having good brakes doesn't help haha :) I didn't catchup until about 20mins later.

/me removes his speed limiter :bahaha:




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