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Thanks to those who turned out. Only 7 cars, but still not to bad, better than nothing. Hopefully get some more next time.

Was good to meet a few owners and get out for a nice leasurely drive.

Lucky that the rain basically held off for the day, but sucks that my car needs a wash :D bloody rain spots all over t from last night.

Thanks to Ruby for organising the cruise, was a great day out. Nice to meet some of the other members . :thumbsup:

Here are some pictures of the day, sorry about the quality. I dont know if it was the camera or the operator.lol

Also a big thank you to Cheddar for stopping in the morning to help us out. Greatly appreciated.

Looking forward to the next cruise.

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Just remembered! Kinda off topic, and I'm so bad with names, but you know who you are hehe, asked me about the 1DIN gauge set, they are on Japanese Import Spares website, not perfectrun.jp, althouogh perfect run has some good gear :thumbsup:

Thanks to Ruby for organising the cruise :) It was great day and was good to finally meet some people from here :)

Sarah - anytime champ, just glad it was nothing serious in the end :P Thanks for taking all the photos too even though my car was all banged up and dirty lol

can't wait for the next one :D

yeah great cruise guys, hopefully next time i'll have my stagea there too. hopefully we get a few more cars showing up aswell. but it was a good run and i met some cool people.

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