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brilliant effing cruise! thanks to everyone who came and im glad my plans werent too confusing..

good to meet most of you! especially marty coming down and supporting the tune :D

i shall organise another soon, unless someone beats me too itwhistling.gif

well what can i say it was a great cruise if you didnt attend you missed out the black spur is overrated but the drive from marysville to warburton now that was fun what a great twistie road and dont the awd love it even though it was wet...p.s that p plater should hand their licence back....

It was good to a see a good turn out fron the vic stagea crew and if one of us wants organise another cruise any time soon i will be more than happy just to drive that same road again..hope every made it home safe...i just did a lazy 10 hours at work and its 3.45 am so yeh in f@#$ed.....lets make these stagea cruises a regular event say every 3 or 4 months and hope we can get a few more to attend..ah thats if from me to the next one....p.s well done arron for finally getting us out for a day of wagon fun

stagea mick

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look's like a great cruise but there's 2 Volvo's in there trying to pass themselves off as Stagea's.....the black(good to see you finally sprayed your grill Aaron) and white ones! nyaanyaa.gif

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well what can i say it was a great cruise if you didnt attend you missed out the black spur is overrated but the drive from marysville to warburton now that was fun what a great twistie road and dont the awd love it even though it was wet...p.s that p plater should hand their licence back....

It was good to a see a good turn out fron the vic stagea crew and if one of us wants organise another cruise any time soon i will be more than happy just to drive that same road again..hope every made it home safe...i just did a lazy 10 hours at work and its 3.45 am so yeh in f@#$ed.....lets make these stagea cruises a regular event say every 3 or 4 months and hope we can get a few more to attend..ah thats if from me to the next one....p.s well done arron for finally getting us out for a day of wagon fun

stagea mick

Thanks mick, for helping lead us around, showing us some good routes aswell!!

you coulda got my name right though lol :domokun:

Awesome Cruise, Great to finally put faces to names :)

My son had a ball... and so did i :D

Aaron Great job on the Dyno, hope you got home with no fines hehe

Thanks for coming down Marty! your sons a happy little bugger! yeh no fines, i shall wait next to the letter box for the next month!

A photo of the meet

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A shop selling a weird service in healesville

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Needless to say, none of us stopped.. :happy:

BAHAHAHAHAH missed it!

look's like a great cruise but there's 2 Volvo's in there trying to pass themselves off as Stagea's.....the black(good to see you finally sprayed your grill Aaron) and white ones! nyaanyaa.gif

lol came up alright, no chipping either!

Thanks mick, for helping lead us around, showing us some good routes aswell!!

you coulda got my name right though lol :domokun:

I was lucky to even be able to write that much at that time in the morning...... p.s i think you spell it wrong ......

Was good to get out on a Stagea cruise again (I was passenger in the green stag), its been a while for me :P

We ended up hitting some rally roads around Lake Mountain / Marysville. We saw the Pursuit heading back up towards Lake when we were coming down. What happened there?

Was good to get out on a Stagea cruise again (I was passenger in the green stag), its been a while for me :P

We ended up hitting some rally roads around Lake Mountain / Marysville. We saw the Pursuit heading back up towards Lake when we were coming down. What happened there?

get any good photos in the end?

i think he chased aaron for a while but gave up, s*#tbox commodore chase a stagea pooeee!

i duno what happened, im pretty sure he was behind scott not me, then scott managed to lose him. RWD in rally roads, and rain.. ?? really?

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