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Was a good night, despite not bringing my 33 GTR (bagged a ride in mates wrx instead).

Highlight for me was driving the 35 down the road to get fuel, I didn't drove hard in case anyone is wondering...

It's hilariously fast even if you're a passenger, if you got offered to ride inside one, do it.

Photos to come later tonight hopefully, quality won't be great cos I took some.

Cheers

Grant

your car was quite the looker too man. got a few good pics of it.

haha cheers bro

nice, cant wait to see them :(

Big thanks to everyone, I had a ball! I haven't really given the Audi a good thrash since all the mods so I was wrapped at how much fun it was..

Loved the evo and 35 as well, god that was quick!

haha thanks

did you end up going to the next meet point? cause thats when i left and everyone turned around but you kept going the opposite way

Thanks to all that attended. It was a good turn out considering it was freezing cold around 16ish cars. thank god it didnt rain thou.

Nice to see new faces.

Nick you have a nice evo man.

and g35me.... WOW!!

:(

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haha cheers bro

nice, cant wait to see them :(

haha thanks

did you end up going to the next meet point? cause thats when i left and everyone turned around but you kept going the opposite way

We took a wrong turn but ended up meeting with everyone else soon enough...

Thanks again Dan, awesome night

that cracked me up for some reason. ;)

Is it sig worthy?

Haha, I think the cause of me being a noob with camera and you showed up with proper flash, tripod and other fancy bits that I gave up straightaway.

was a great meet, nice turnout, the weather was freezing but least it didnt rain on us

OMG that R35 was HOT az, I think we had the WOW factor last nite driving along with a R35 GTR lol

Thanks Dan for organising a good event

maybe we should do a re run in the summer, might get more cars and do the part we couldnt due to road works just a suggestion and get some nice pics against the beach beign the background...what do you guys think?

^^^ That would be great, but in summer, that area is insanely popular with tourists and their inconsiderate driving! Makes 'spirited' driving a bit difficult but do-able though.

+1 for organising another one in not so freezing conditions, I'll make sure I bring my GTR this time.

^^^ That would be great, but in summer, that area is insanely popular with tourists and their inconsiderate driving! Makes 'spirited' driving a bit difficult but do-able though.

+1 for organising another one in not so freezing conditions, I'll make sure I bring my GTR this time.

Thanks Dan for oganising a great night. Let me know when the next one is and lets hope there will be no more try-hards in BA Falcons around.

Awesome night; but it was farken cold! ;) (Damn, i'm sounding like an old grandpa :) )

Thanks Dan for organising the night, the time and effort is appreciated!

A big thanks to Dave for the left, those rs4 seats are insanely comfy and worth the small fortune they cost. It's always great to have such a top performing back-up car :P

Hopefully my car will be back on the road soon enough!

awesome cruise Dan. thanks mate

highlights of the night was and i still cant get over this but cruising with a GTR 35 was just...crazy lol was just weird going for a cruise and having a 35 in the pack not afraid to give it sticks. HOT

and Dave i pretty much JIZZED when i saw the rear just squat then on let off a nice twin flames shooting out of your Audi. very very very hot and clean car mate.

roads was awesome in my comfort spec chaser...apart from the scrub scrub scrub front bar smashing on the freeway under heavy braking and sparks shooting from my exhaust lol

awesome cruise

Thanks Dan for oganising a great night. Let me know when the next one is and lets hope there will be no more try-hards in BA Falcons around.

your GTR is HOT. and lol after telling Dan im heading off the falcon took off so i stepped on it. he looked at me going WTF is that car and why is it in front hahahaa

awesome night. in summer it will be much much much better.

niroj off your black lazy ass and post pics up

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