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Spotted lots of nice racing Porsche's today in a workshop in Melbourne :) Including a nice Black 4wd 540HP twin Turbo GT2 race car mmmmmmmmmm

DELUXE would have seen a few last weekend to Sandown. Did you get a chance to see the Aston Darren before Johny had a hissy fit and left early?

Plenty of nice Skylines in Melbourne.

Yeh dude that Aston was killa, as well as a silver Ferrari, and sooooo many Porsches were out there also, you can definatly tell they have more cash than us over here....... When we went over we were sharing a pit wall shed with a GT40, some old chilla steering it, Theres us with a rx7, 808 and Celica, and then a GT40, was amusing!!!

delux lookin tough in the city last night

Hmmmm Was that Friday night? Must have been!!!

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spotted a 4door one of these today

he said it had a L series engine was running a turbo also lights went green so didnt have heaps long to chat but was a silver colour and had just been restored

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Yeh dude that Aston was killa, as well as a silver Ferrari, and sooooo many Porsches were out there also, you can definatly tell they have more cash than us over here....... When we went over we were sharing a pit wall shed with a GT40, some old chilla steering it, Theres us with a rx7, 808 and Celica, and then a GT40, was amusing!!!

I was pissed i missed out on the round. On friday i was down in the Auto-Art Porsche teams workshop. They had half the Porsches that were competing in there, the Locon 911 Turbo was very nice. Teds Ferrari 360NGT is an awesome car although i think he spent more money in the engine bay lining than what my car cost!!

Spotted a black 32 GTST with LED rear lights and and 34 GTT (look alike) rear spoiler on it on sturt rd heading into marion today.

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I was pissed i missed out on the round. On friday i was down in the Auto-Art Porsche teams workshop. They had half the Porsches that were competing in there, the Locon 911 Turbo was very nice. Teds Ferrari 360NGT is an awesome car although i think he spent more money in the engine bay lining than what my car cost!!

Yeh dude thats the one......... They even had another one out the back of the pits that had damaged drivers side brake lights, that would be expensive to fix......LOL

Looks like i might be going over again but to Phillip Island for another one of their rounds, Love that track, so much better than any other purpose built track! We've got our next round of the state series coming up in a few eeks, It's just not gonna feel the same....LOL

Thought i'd do a driveby past boostworx on the way home and saw a white 33 GTR going up boothby ave or street or whatever it is, went round the round about then stopped at boostworx as i kept going past. Flashed high beemers and got the thumbs up, tough looking car. Also a silver/grey 180sx stopped there just before the 33, also looked nice.

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