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this sunday....hmmm.....its long weekend....and cops have been drilling the hunter valley of late.... i had fun last weekend....i think ill stay away from town this weekend, acutally, i think the line will stay in the shed all weekend, i might pull something off it so it cant drive!

good thought, but im not gonna take the risk....maybe the weekend after.

cheers

Linton

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yeah, no.....

not me thanks.

1) I haven't got a front bar

2) the car has terradactal shit covering it and I don't have time to wash it yet

3) I may be taking a trip to Sydney on Monday to (hopefully) pick up my NEW front bar :D

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anyone interested in paintball

just had a lady trying to offer me a voucher set for 10 ppl @ $5 entry each and $22 per 100 paintballs if we use over 1000 it comes down to $17 per 100 and over 2500 comes down cheaper again

they throw on a lunch for us aswell

would have space for 7-8 ppl to come :)

let me know if your interested and ill by the vouchers next week

we have till 1st jan 2006 to use them :)

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Sorry to butt in but how many of you Newcastle guys are coming down for the Show and Shine? It's on the central coast so nice and close. I was hoping to get a few Newie guys entering (I know we've got one already).

Also, what are/is the Skylines workshop/s up there?

Thanks.

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Ill need a lift down to the Show'n'Shine event if any of you bloke are going down and would like me to navigate your the wrong way! :(

Abo Bob:

I get my work done at Denstoj Auto Centre, 49261718, 8 Arnott Street, Newcastle.

Very happy and impressed with their services so far.

Also RX Engineering is very good too, locally probably the best from what i hear on the grapevine.

http://www.rxengineering.com/

Hope that helps :)

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That would be good Gruntn. We need lots of entrants to make this work. It's just a great big social car day with a mojor emphasis on Skylines obviously :(.

I'm sure your car is worth entering Mr Wizard.

Thanks for those d-d.

Do any of you guys go down to the harbour where all the done up cars park? I've been up to Newie about 6 times and always see them there. Maybe someone who feels super social and sure of themselves could hand out a few flyers there one day for us.

Any of you guys keep confidence pills in your glove box?

What's the best day/time to get the most people? Are there heaps of dickheads there at all?

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Sunday afternnon at the foreshore is MASSIVE.

Im talkign insanely massive and it takes a good 10 mins to drive along a 60m strip.

The majority of people down there are young kids that want to be cool or whatever, i know from our skyline's aus gathering we choose to park elsewhere so we dont have to deal with the majority of peoples attitudes that is undoubtedly associated with the newcastle foreshore scence on sunday afternoon's. But im sure with a bit of ticker and enthusiam you'll find the right people to hand your flyers out to.

Best bet is to go down from 2:30pm onwards so you can grab a park, the main action starts around 3pm.

:rofl:

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So when is the next newcastle gathering? i'm just about to get my car back tomorrow. What is happening with the central coast thing?? who's going and who is entering? what is the typical calabre of enterants cars? is the 200 going to be shamed?

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