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Last week, middleaged woman in burgundy S1 pulled up next to me at the lights on rosanna rd. Bit of a chat, not often two pull up next to each other..

LOL the good wife was horrified to see middleaged woman there... lookout if you cross paths again :D

got it off ebay, i also have a japanese fire truck model.. i have to put them together when i get time..

saw the white S2 with black rims again the other day on heatherton road, pulled up abit behind me...

Hey mate i had a look on ebay and can only find some from Hong kong for like $90 ish (15 pounds plus shipping) bit Xy for me i think

hey Nick you get spotted all the time by a colleague of mine. It goes like this "hey i saw a wierd car like yours but green on old windsor rd this morning". Watch out for a wierd stalker in a black golf

hey Nick you get spotted all the time by a colleague of mine. It goes like this "hey i saw a wierd car like yours but green on old windsor rd this morning". Watch out for a wierd stalker in a black golf

I do? Sweeeeeet! :)

Are you still working at the same place, Duncan? I've been spending a lot of time out that way because it's so much easier to shop in Winston Hills, Castle Hill or Baulkham Hills instead of fighting the masses (and the idiots) at Parramatta.

What series Golf is it? Mark 4 or 5? Basic model or GTI (or R32 :banana: )?

prolly me i drove down most of penno hills road this morning about 9am and then back again about midday. What were you driving jetwreck? spewing if i missed an m35 ont he roads

nick - i didnt ask it was a vw so i couldnt pretend to be interested ;)

Duncan....I was in a Black M35 ARX.....If you were in the white Stagea you should have heard me I was right next to you tapping the horn as I went past the entrance from Castle Hill road...maybe you had the Spice Girls pumping on the stereo and didn't hear me...lol.....might not have been you though.

I hit Pennant hills Road at about 7.45 to 8.

where were you Lanky? didn't see another stagea apart from Nick's today?

Umm... I'm not a Stagea... rather a silver 4 door R34... I will have to come up and introduce myself to you next time. But i post in the stagea thread as I spotted stageas lol.

Duncan....I was in a Black M35 ARX.....If you were in the white Stagea you should have heard me I was right next to you tapping the horn as I went past the entrance from Castle Hill road...maybe you had the Spice Girls pumping on the stereo and didn't hear me...lol.....might not have been you though.

I hit Pennant hills Road at about 7.45 to 8.

Were you around near MRT at Rhodes last Wednesday afternoon. Saw a Black ARX go past me while sitting in the crap traffic that day just around the corner from MRT. I am in a Silver ARX.

Cheers

Andy

You got my cherry(first time spotted...took three weeks..lol)....I work in Rhodes....missed the Silver ARX though : ( .

Gotta love the traffic around there aye!!!!

Usually not so bad for me as I head south in the morning but that day was the pitts. 2 km's in 40minutes!!

Is your car stock or have done some mods yet? I want to talk to some one who knows about suspension for the NM35 as I would like to improve mine.

I'll have to watch out for Lanky as I live in West Ryde.

Yeh I have done the exhaust and wheels so far....Going to get the Turbo pulled out then Ballbearinged, highflow and steel impellered next year....then a booste controller and booste gauge put in to get it up to about 13 to 15 PSI....will see if it needs the intercooler after that.

With suspension there's a mob in Perth(contact ausis)....I am trying to locate someone in Sydney....problem is I don't know wether I want to part with $1,800 for coil over's installed just to go down 2 or 3 inch's if I am never going to take it on the track. Would prefer to spend it on brakes as the stock one's are crap.

Andy and Jetwreck, you should come to the Coastie meets on Thursday nights - I'd love to have a look at an M35 in the flesh too!

Not sure I can make it but where and what time Thursday? What are the "Coastie meets"?

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