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Any one closer to help stolly out Pleeze. Nice to offer Andrew.

I also Got tickets for Friday but as per not keen on leaving the beast alone. Tis my only means of transport so it cant be too far aways. May get secure parking in town underground and catch a bus down Northborne ... hmmm thinking!

hmmm dont know, whatever 25minutes costs i guess?

but you can catch buses out there easily, just catch one into woden then transfer out to exhibition park. shouldnt be to much trouble at all.

if anyone else is closer then feel free to offer, but in the mean your more than welcome to hide it at my house lol.

im not even sure on how im getting out there yet? i'll prolly take mums car, nobody expects the excel!!! we need to sort out whos going from the ACT anyway and to see if we can get a group of us together.

I'm putting in for the weekend off work:don't know how I'll go,but I'm keen for Satd'ys top 100-at least there's some serious cars in that particular pavillion.I'll be posting an invite to all for a get together on Friday night:keep your eyes peeled.As for parking,is there really such a thing as a safe parking spot?I'd happily pay for properly secure parking,but that's a bit pie-in-the-sky on 'Nats weekend,I think...If I get the weekend off,I'm happy to shuttle any SAU'ers in the mighty Liberty(it has aircon,thank christ).I'm not real keen to get my ride out,anyway-defect city(even if mine is 99% engineered legal),plus the moron V8 biggots that only bow to one brand of horsepower...

Hey all,

I live 5 Minutes from Epic (the nats) in Nicholls. I have no Garage space (other than for my own baby) but plenty of free space out the front! If people are looking for somwhere reasonably close without actually parking in V8 city then I would be happy to have you. However I am changing sides for the few days in January and you can all look out for me in the tough '93 White Holden Statesman cruising around the nats!

This does mean that anyone parking here would have to walk 30 seconds to a bus stop for the 5 minute bus ride or catch a $10 cab!

PM me or post here anyone interested! Limited spots available as I dont own a multiplex parking lot!

Cheers :D

Keen to keep my car as far away from summernats as possible this year. Parked it at a friends units across from EPIC (opposite Shell) and I come back to find someone has stuffed the door handles full of vaseline.... thanks you f##king pricks!!!

Hey all,

I live 5 Minutes from Epic (the nats) in Nicholls. I have no Garage space (other than for my own baby) but plenty of free space out the front! If people are looking for somwhere reasonably close without actually parking in V8 city then I would be happy to have you. However I am changing sides for the few days in January and you can all look out for me in the tough '93 White Holden Statesman cruising around the nats!

This does mean that anyone parking here would have to walk 30 seconds to a bus stop for the 5 minute bus ride or catch a $10 cab!  

PM me or post here anyone interested! Limited spots available as I dont own a multiplex parking lot!

Cheers  :P

maxicab, a dollar each :D

i'm in kaleen, it's not that close but my area isn't bad. i was just going to park in watson same as i did last year, and i had a skyline then. i don't think anyone will want to steal or break into a stagea this year

I've parked in the regular carpark for the last 2yrs running and not had a single issue. I'd be more worried about parking my car on a side street at Braddon on a fri/sat nite and walking more than 10m away from it than parking at the Nats parking paddocks.

I'm not sure what i'll be doing this year... I might just drive down friday after work and hang in braddon until it goes quiet and then stay at my parents place in Goulborn and then go back for the saturday and the sunday.

Last year I stayed in a very lush private apartment just near Parliament house and it was absolutely tops!!

yeah i'll back you up on that, i've parked there the last 2 years running, in my exa and then in my lancer and never had a single prob, and there are security people at the gates and around the cars, not to say its theif proof but it certianly keeps them away.

i also just noticed how quickly i go through cars, already onto my 4th.

hehe, me too. didn't realise until you said that.

Kingswood, Skyline, Troopy and Stagea. i still own 3 of them too.

Where is the parking for the nats? i've only ever parked offsite and just walked there. i figured getting too close to the action would result in getting stuck somewhere i didn't want to be (think simpsons people) and getting dominated by truckosaurus

They have massive paddocks on 3 sides of the showground (the 4th side being the highway). Alot of people just leave their cars at the hotels/houses and catch a bus.

Just remember to go down at midnight the night before to buy your tickets for the next day otherwise you'll spend an hour in the line.

yeah i'll back you up on that, i've parked there the last 2 years running, in my exa and then in my lancer and never had a single prob, and there are security people at the gates and around the cars, not to say its theif proof but it certianly keeps them away.  

i also just noticed how quickly i go through cars, already onto my 4th.

I have also parked in the Nats parking before when I had my modified Vp Commodore. The concern with parking a Skyline there is not so much theft. Although the nats have become more excepting to our breed of high performance imports, not every bogan V8 head is thinking that way when stumbling back to their Falcon! It only takes one to destroy a paint job or more than a few panels! "That will teach the little wog boy" < Common line of thinking among a lot of V8 owners I've run into. ( not all, as mentioned be4 I will be seen in a big v8 at the nats all 4 days!)

Insurance is great, paying the huge excess isnt...

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Righto-I got screwed over on getting the Satd'y off work-I'll only be doing the Friday at this stage(unless something drastic changes...).Anyone keen for a lift early-ish(I'm thinking between 9 and 10),PM me and we'll sort it.

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