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I think I'm coming down with the misses , Navy blue R34 sedan. OH R34RY plates. I'm sure most of the NOR Joondalup crowd have seen me around ... don't think I see you trying to read my rego !!! I usually hang out with some of the sivliaWA crowd but don't think that I bat for wrong team :P It's free if your japspec right ? do you just drive on in if your japspec and just spectating and parking up ? Or if your japspec and just spectating do you park up and pay !?!

I are can haz not speel and granmar well :(

Love Richie xo

either way , look out for the car and skinny guy with the Alice in wonderland sleeve. Come say Hi , I might buy you icecream :)

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I think I'm coming down with the misses , Navy blue R34 sedan. OH R34RY plates. I'm sure most of the NOR Joondalup crowd have seen me around ... don't think I see you trying to read my rego !!! I usually hang out with some of the sivliaWA crowd but don't think that I bat for wrong team :P It's free if your japspec right ? do you just drive on in if your japspec and just spectating and parking up ? Or if your japspec and just spectating do you park up and pay !?!

I are can haz not speel and granmar well :(

Love Richie xo

either way , look out for the car and skinny guy with the Alice in wonderland sleeve. Come say Hi , I might buy you icecream :)

HHmmm free ice cream, I'll be looking out for you thumbsup.gif

ALICE IN WONDERLAND SLEEVE laughing-smiley-014.gif

tricstar were running in the gymkahna today? if so your car sounds so fresh and clean and really shows its power when on the gas.

Also whats your car running suspension wise too cause it gripped like buggery and only showed the tinyest bit of understeer?

cheers guys thanks.gif

was good to meet a couple of you out there in the heat, I wasn't out and about much through the day, a bit antisocial sleep.gif so no free ice cream confused.gif

I was hiding in the shade nursing a kick arse hang-over from the Lexus Ball last night no.gif only just came good before the motorkana in the afternoon, then wrong wayed the first run spank.gif

Micheal : It has HKS coilovers thats about it, but the key in tight little courses like that is my Ruzic Torque spilt converter, so I turn the front down to make it a bit more tail happy, rather deal with over-steer than under-steer .. certainly didn't feel grippy in the car ..

that course was more suited to the Suzuki swift than our cars, but was a good bit of fun, wheres the vid Eric cheers.gif

Turnout of cars was pretty decent but a distinct lack of organising meant we left early.

i.e no music, entertainment etc. other then the Motorkhana.

Email Paul Blank with a list of improvements, he's always open to constructive criticism, and we want to make sure events like this continue in the future :thumbsup:

Email Paul Blank with a list of improvements, he's always open to constructive criticism, and we want to make sure events like this continue in the future :thumbsup:

Yeah, Scotty and I are going to do exactly that. Has the potential to be an awesome day.

In hindsight I should have brought out my R/C drift car for a bit of a hurt, hehe. Also a marquee wouldn't have gone astray (should have thought about that personally).

Yeah, Scotty and I are going to do exactly that. Has the potential to be an awesome day.

In hindsight I should have brought out my R/C drift car for a bit of a hurt, hehe. Also a marquee wouldn't have gone astray (should have thought about that personally).

Sweet. I was just thinking that an small RC track would be a good idea, help keep people entertained. Also a bikini wash, with you in a g-string would be pretty hot too :wub:

Sweet. I was just thinking that an small RC track would be a good idea, help keep people entertained.

Yeah, we ended just sitting around doing nothing, some R/C and the like would have been pretty cool

Also a bikini wash, with you in a g-string would be pretty hot too :wub:

Goes without saying :yes:

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