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Ta Dude,

They all get regularly abused too. Although I really do think for the show to become more relevant to 90% of the punters they need to have a judging criterea based on the everyday streetability of the cars.

Jash

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Ta Dude,  

They all get regularly abused too. Although I really do think for the show to become more relevant to 90% of the punters they need to have a judging criterea based on the everyday streetability of the cars.

Jash

Thats very true - end of the day streetable cars are real cars - no disrespect to lenno but the thing isnt a daily driver - if i saw it on the road id respect it more.

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LOL @ TJ.. some nice pics man..

and definitely agreed on the street vs trailer queens.. wonder how you could quantify that for a points system though Jash? Maybe it's worth putting in a submission to the people who run the shows?

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Cam and TJ,

They have refined the judging system over the years to a point where its about as equitable as it can be to level the playing field. They overlooked the chips and scratches on the 15 based on the fact its a car that gets the crap beaten out of it regularly.

Based on what we learnt this year from the process we're going to refine out cars for next years outing so we've got at least 2 cars in the top 10. Its pretty hard to compete against cars that arent even street licenced, but it can be done.

Jash

PS We've got some big ideas for the Naan next year too...

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