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It was around 1.30 2.00, I've had a few people mention another one around the thornton area though.

I think it was you, because the front bar was opened up like i've seen in some pics.

yea that would have been me. Didn't see you sorry.. Gotta fix that front bar up actually. I'm needing to mesh it off to deflect some attention from it. The police are startin to crack down on imports in and surrounding Maitland of late, alot of our friends have been done so I'm not really wanting test my luck out any longer.. Sorry I didn't see ya hey.

I actually think I seen you the other week goin over Hexham bridge tried to catch up but you got thru all the traffic and were goin. I had to turn off at Tomago anyway to pick the other half up from work..

yea that would have been me. Didn't see you sorry.. Gotta fix that front bar up actually. I'm needing to mesh it off to deflect some attention from it. The police are startin to crack down on imports in and surrounding Maitland of late, alot of our friends have been done so I'm not really wanting test my luck out any longer.. Sorry I didn't see ya hey.

I actually think I seen you the other week goin over Hexham bridge tried to catch up but you got thru all the traffic and were goin. I had to turn off at Tomago anyway to pick the other half up from work..

I was in the work car, so you wouldn't have spotted me anyway, I dont drive the stagea much these days, sometimes on weekends, where does the other half work? I work at Tomago too, at Voest Alpine Mining and Tunnelling.

he works at Tyton Conveyors in martin drive. Sometimes he drives my car but most days he drives his own. (blue R32 with custom plates) Yea try not to drive mine too much but what with the kids and all it's a bit hard.

Hey i work in thornton too brenden you must be the one my work mates tell me about i haven't seen you yet ... spewin', be seeing you soon i spose and guess what, one of my work mates wifes works at voesk alpine aswell what a small world

Hey i work in thornton too brenden you must be the one my work mates tell me about i haven't seen you yet ... spewin', be seeing you soon i spose and guess what, one of my work mates wifes works at voesk alpine aswell what a small world

It's a very small world, there's gettin to be a few around the Newcastle area now, we'll have to meet up in town one day.

Yeah your talking about the fire engine red one i take it, ive PMed him to find out what he's got option wise, we'll probably meet up soon if he's keen, snap some pics you should come too 3 stags together would look better than two.

Brendan, when summer comes up (or at least when it starts to get a bit warmer), we'll have to organise another cruise or meet but closer to you guys up the coast - maybe Swansea or somewhere around there, who knows...

Brendan, when summer comes up (or at least when it starts to get a bit warmer), we'll have to organise another cruise or meet but closer to you guys up the coast - maybe Swansea or somewhere around there, who knows...

Definately mate, I don't mind even going further down your way, I guess it's up to the majority.

I'll talk to you on MSN about it, as you've probably noticed i've been a bit quiet lately, been heaps busy with moving, and the bub, and I'm back on dialup now, which sucks BIG time :P

Hey all, Newbie here. Thought I'd put my 2 cents worth in.

Saw a yellow one (I'm guessing a series 2) heading alond Epping Road on Saturday night. Followed it from North Ryde near El Rancho up to the Epping Station over pass. Thought at first it may have been the one for sale on Parramatta Road/Concord.

Asked how much and he replied with 22k inc GST imported I'm guessing he spent the extra $$$ to get it converted to Manual as he indicated they don't normally come standard. (Really hard to catch the rest of what he said as we were on the move by this time).

Have been researching these beauties for a while now, I almost got sucked into buying the one for sales out at Concord till I started checking out prices elsewhere.

Hoping to get some valuable info from this forum and look forward to making purchase hopefully in the not too distant future.

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