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That time of year again fellas.

MAS is the end of April so we gotta get onot it now. And get ready. No last minute stuff this time. Too much hassle for everyone.

So with that said.

Here are the details.

If you dont come to regular meetings, you wont be in... save for special circumstances (ie. your from geelong)

Date: Tuesday; 22/03/2005

Venue: Bell's Hotel, 157 Moray St, South Melbourne (Cnr Moray St & Coventry St Melways Ref - 57, G1)

Time: 8pm

What do i need?

Ideas mainly.

People that can offer things to come forward

I'm taking a list of those interested.

And going over the basic aim we want to achieve this year. Also assigning early tasks and making a few important decisions about the display etc :(

***UPDATE*** 16/03

1) Venue now decided

2) Only SAU-Vic members will be able to participate

This was decided as we are a club entry, and SAU-Vic will be paying for things, and they are member only benefits.

3) Anyone that was at the GrandPrix AutoSalon show is entitiled to a $60 entry fee

If you did not attend not, the fee will be less than $100

4) In relation to cars, easy. Most people will be in unless we get too many and have too crop.

So everyone should rock along.

5) Have a think now of all your ideas. I've got a few from last night. But Tues will play a big part in deciding our direction.

6) All Entrants must be paid by April 1 to qualify for cheaper entry. If not late entries will be $20 higher

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well you know i'm in!! Mad rush to get the car ready in time...hehe

I'll come to the meeting (22/3) and will try to make it to as many others as i can, but if i cant make it and have other ideas/suggestions, i'll just post em here or let you know ash.

hopefully with enough interest and orginisation, should be a great club stand, would be nice to see Sau VIC win one of the "club awards" an bring a trophy home :rofl:

:)

hay ash what about the slide show of joels that was great and we could have it playing on a tv or something showing off the club a bit? Also the one of snowman ride was awsome and should mayb have a feature on the stand next to his car it would just look great

Just finished filling my SAU VIC membership form, now I'm ready to contribute!

I'd be interested in coming along and helping out , any ideas from last nights meeting on a location for March 22? I like the idea about the projector, we could also hire a good plasma screen for cheap and play a Skyline DVD. Big pics and big screens would look sweet!

How many SAU VIC cars will be involved? I heard you guys had a great stand last year!

B :Bang:

I can personally vouch for RON's R32 GTR, it is by far the cleanest and most immaculate 32 I have seen to date. Absolutely awesome!

Unfortunately i don't think my car will be painted and upgraded :cheers: in time, so i will give this a miss. Will help out though.

This year the load will be taken off the usual couple of people and shared amounst all entrants, so if ya want to enter be prepared to help out :rofl:.

i can put my car in but youve already seen it and its boring :cheers:

will come to the meeting for some beer and a chat but no point having my car

more cars the better.

we are going for a BIG stand.

we want as many members as we can possibly get

its a bit of work involved and youll need someone who can print like a4 prints out on good quality printout but perhaps for each car have some info about it and things like model, special features, owners comments etc. not everyone know what a series 3 vspec is and what the r32 gts-r had different to the gts etc. even just simple things like engine and mods i wouldnt know what half the mods are in most cars. i think melbccr had a similar thing like tihs for each car they had a blurb about it on a poster card standing in front of the car. if you want all the members cars in or the vast majority thats a lot of space. will cabin be ok if we want to enter so many cars?

Im hoping to have my car ready by then.

Who do i see/PM to become an official SAU member?

ADZMAX is it u? well u have pm :)

Also NISMOID, whats the absolute final cut off date for entry forms/money?

Im gonna be scrapping for time.

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