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Very good to see this thread degrade in just 2 days!

Excellent ;)

Anyone got any theme ideas?

I like Snow's Godzilla plan - see if we can rent a suit :D

I have all the PS2 link hardware from last year if we want to do that again. Having a PC to show the website is an excellent idea - might be worth a wardrive to see if there's some wireless bandwidth we can poach!

Would be great to have some floor-coverings and fences this year (although driving around the city stealing witches hats at 2.00am was kinda fun) - something cheap and easy.

I can investigate staging rental costs also - it would be great to have some plasmas showing event footage etc - so maybe it could be good to look into some support/sponsorship possibilities?

T-Shirt slogan ideas?

Ni's avatar 'It's all about the lights' isn't bad, 'teh GTR can nevar loose', 'you drive skyrine?' - we can go crazy :D

What about speaking to the guys at NDSOC and seeing if we can't borrow one of the Gibson R32's. They've had them at a few of their events. Then we can have the slogan "Discriminated for Being Too Good!"

Hey we could even set up a pclaptop running a powerpoint slideshow of event pic's too. Lol, I like "You drive skyrine" James, dunno if the asian population would take to it though ;) I reckon we need police tape to block off the cars, would go nice with a "defected theme" :D

Plain black cloth would be ok for a floor covering, wouldn't bee to expensive to buy, maybe someone from here knows someone in the biz?

As for net access and hardware I can supply all the gear from work.

Hey we could even set up a pclaptop running a powerpoint slideshow of event pic's too. Lol, I like "You drive skyrine" James, dunno if the asian population would take to it though ;) I reckon we need police tape to block off the cars, would go nice with a "defected theme" :D

 

Plain black cloth would be ok for a floor covering, wouldn't bee to expensive to buy, maybe someone from here knows someone in the biz?

 

As for net access and hardware I can supply all the gear from work.

also if we got some fake defect stickers made up and a sign like in my avatar it would be funny as.

I guess with the floor covering it's more a case if you cant walk on it you cant get near the car which is a good thing? Maybe some sort of blue covering and sum fluffy white stuffing to make a sky like apearence, would go well with a "skyline" theme. Defect stickers would be cool too. How about "SAU's the name and smokin' local's is the game!" :D

thats lame...  

the defect stickers are a good idea.. just like make fake ones up or something..

i had my one scanned if any 1 wants to bother re printing or copying it. just ask ill send the jpg.

Didn't MCCR go with the defect theme last year?

Mind you... Do we really want to make a point of 'being defected'?

Maybe it's just me but I hate having that thing on my car. Makes people thing there is something wrong with the car and/or the driver. Kind of a negative 'flaunt the law' attitude.

Perhaps I'm over sensitive about it... I just think we could come up with something more positive. Just my 2c

Maybe a race theme? Ron and Greg (KPGC10 guys) have a Gibson R31 race car - and are keen to have it on the stand...

LMAO!!

but yeah if anyone has some footage i want it... i wanna put premier to good use and try and use it

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