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you disgust me.

...yet i think i love you. ;)

Ooooh Rowan, that stings a bit!

First a flaming about my dumb SSR's comment, as if I have any clue, and now I disgust you???? Harsh much mr Man...

(cries quietly into a pink lace hanky)

Bwahahahahaha!!!! AS IF!!!!!

Tough Cookie can take all you've got! And everyone loves me! (ego MUCHHHHH!!!)

Good to see someone else up cruisin the forums at 3am....

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Haha! I wish! I would have to be a SUPERMODEL to be able to afford that car... My 33 may yet ruin me financially... (BIG shopping list!) Gotta hurry up and sell my Focus....

Nah, I was just lucky enough to drive it, my last job was at a Valet place, so I got to drive lots of nice stuff, but the R35 took the prize for the best... Nowhere near the most expensive, but most certainly the best.

But honestly, with all it's little imperfections and glitches and stuff... (passenger power window controls don't work from drivers side, have to lean over, stalls out if I am not mindful of the revs, [auto....], dies in the ass and has to be jump started if I leave the stereo on without the motor running, suspension so hard my teeth nearly rattle out on bumps....) I am happier in my 33 than anything I have ever owned or driven....

Like I said... Damn I love that car..... Mr Eps' article (below) sums it up perfectly... The love we have for our Jap cars....

;)

Awesome, lucky you, I am still waiting on a friend to get his hands on a R35 GTR, as he has sold a few R34 GTR's to hopefully fund the R35.

Yeah sell the Focus and the cash for the R33.

Cool!

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Where abouts in Sydney are you from?

EDIT: North Ryde, nevermind ;)

I'm in Hornsby... wonder if I'll ever see you prowling the streets...

u will, u will... Burned around there last weekend. Made friends with some mechanics who

heard me start up in the morn and came out for a look, and graced the drive thru with my lovely liner's presence, bought a big box of booze, and then caught the front spoiler on the driveway on the way out... :D

I go everywhere (man!) in the line.., just a joy to drive... :)

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Ooooh Rowan, that stings a bit!

First a flaming about my dumb SSR's comment, as if I have any clue, and now I disgust you???? Harsh much mr Man...

(cries quietly into a pink lace hanky)

Bwahahahahaha!!!! AS IF!!!!!

Tough Cookie can take all you've got! And everyone loves me! (ego MUCHHHHH!!!)

Good to see someone else up cruisin the forums at 3am....

wow.

this was the first post i actually read. and it broke my brain...

samantha you're a total spaz hey!

=P

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You talking about the drive thru bottle-o at the blue gum? That's an easy one to do :P You need more practice I think... Go back there and grab more beers!

Yup! Blue Gum! That'd be the one!!! I'm getting better.... Bit lower than my Focus is all.... lololol!

More beers, more beers!!!!!!

Why, will u be hanging out in the car park? :)

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