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touche... but somehow I see myself buying from a japanese old fart :)

true that...

i plan on buying mine off the showroom floor! (if its out by then!)

will there be anyone actually doing the speed limit on this cruise? i might have to hang around the back with the NA boys if you all go fanging off...

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the place we stopped is the famous, spooky gravity hill. You stop on the road, put your car in neutral... and it rolls up the hill. Twighlight zone!

Is this for real or u just pulling my legs...? If it's real I gotta check it out...

To those with autos, make sure you're in neutral, not crawling in drive... LOL

Cheers,

One of the "older" guys......

Would love to come but unfortunately my car won't be ready in time...

Should be ready in 3 weeks (waiting for parts from Japan), so Ash, James, Andrew, hurry up and organise one for early May!!!!!

Will be there for sure,

I live in gisborne which is about 10 - 15 min drive from macedon, and i can tell u some of the roads around here are quite nice.

Now which way will heading up (calder i guess) so does somebody wanna give me a call when u guys are getting close to gisborne and i'll join u guys from there?

Or i could meet u at macedon, are we going to the cross? cause i could meet u there.

I hope u guys included the hairpins :O

Is this for real or u just pulling my legs...? If it's real I gotta check it out...

To those with autos, make sure you're in neutral, not crawling in drive... LOL

Cheers,

One of the "older" guys......

it will be real - its an optical illusion... the surroundings make it look like the road goes up, but it wll actually be going down - bring a sprit level if you don't belive me :O

on another note - is there any meetups in s.e suburbs for this cruise? if not we should organise one

Baileylsd - we are coming back via the caulder and the cross is one of the last port of calls. So maybe just come to the start meet point on the ring road or else come to our lunch spot at the town of Marmsbery (I think thats the right name! lol)

Ferni - South east meet point is Megamart Car Park on Warrigal Rd. However, I will be cruising up westall rd toward the fwy so if people want to meet out the front of Evolution R or something before cruising up to magamart then Im cool to do that.

Also - for all those SE people NOT wanting to use city link please meet at the ring road Mobil.

Either its an optical illusion or James owns the world's rarest R33 Auto GTR and he had it in drive. I vote for option two with a splashing of chartreuse.

Is this for real or u just pulling my legs...? If it's real I gotta check it out...

To those with autos, make sure you're in neutral, not crawling in drive... LOL

Cheers,

One of the "older" guys......

Rianto bring a bottle of water so you can tip it on the road and see which way it runs

Clarkey

Rianto bring a bottle of water so you can tip it on the road and see which way it runs

Clarkey

Good idea, but if car rolls uphill, so can water flows uphill... defying gravity.

Isn't that the whole idea?

I was told it was optical illusion - the way the tree grows... maybe get a water level from hardware store to prove it :-P

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