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Hey there :cool:

I'm just new here, something for me to do on the holidays :) looking forward to reading a lot and catching up on local happenings, I have had an r33 gts , 97, silver, for just over a year, *see the attached picture*. I live in the SE Suburbs, near the clayton area, I've seen a loooot of other skylines around there :P so i hope i can recognise some of them soon!

Cheers!

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Hey dex!

welcome to the SAU buddy. I dont think ive seen ya round at all yet. i dont live that far from u, i live in Dingley which is like at the end of westal rd and springvale type area... or Centre Dandenong Rd past the moorabbin aiport.

pics of mine are on the webpage, link in the sig :)

hope to see u come along to some meets and cruises!

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Hey thanks guys, looks like a great forum to me. I saw that post about the cruise on the 10th, bummer, im on holiday in perth until the 14th :-P I'll catch the next event though, definitely. Oh and its a non-turbo gts, the 97 model with the dual airbags.

I might give a word of warning about T.G.S Performance from whom i bought the car, recently i had a low speed front impact (not my fault either) the result of which being that i had to get a new front kit and headlights fitted, mainly due to the poor fitting of the front spoiler. as it turned out, when T.G.S had fitted the previous front after they had imported it, they REMOVED the front impact bar to get it to fit, thus giving fark all front impact diffusion in the incedence of a major accident. The good blokes at Blackburn Motor Body had to build a new one and fit it before putting the new kit on as it was totally unsafe, and i would never have realised without having that little smash :-P On the upside, its all fixed and has a new kit which looks and is fitted much better than before, all on the other drivers insurance! She'll be looking first before cornering in the future!

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Oh Inark,

Just had a look at a roadmap, i guess you are just south of me, i live a few streets west of monash uni. I'll keep an eye out for a black r32 (sweet photos btw) in the future! have you ever noticed that at the junction of ferntree gully and blackburn, you'll normally see 2 or 3 skylines? lol its weird

Cheers,

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haha at new front bar @ her cost :) thats all good!!!

yeah ive been past there a couple of times and come across a few that way :cool: the more the merrier.

holiday in perth? why? it not hot enough for u here in melb? 19degrees is as good as it gets!! lol

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yeah, her karma must have been paying back 100:1 that day :-)

well, i'd rather be in queensland or something, but my family's there, and they pay for the tickets :-P if its free i'll take it.

on a side note, my brother here in perth wants to sell his r33, do you think i should tell him to advertise it here in the perth forum??

Cheers,

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Originally posted by MZNISMO

welcome to the forums :)

im sure u will enjoy ur stay

hehe

im from dandy so not too far from you either :)

:D

Hehe, Amb'z highly sought after quickies are only a suburb or two away from you.

Anyways, welcome, and I've seen your car b4, about time u got on the forums :( I'll be cruisin to dandy tonight at 8ish for a mate's 21st if anyone wants to try n dent my car so I can do my rear spoiler on insurance...

hehe welcome again...

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Originally posted by funkymonkey

Hehe, Amb'z highly sought after quickies are only a suburb or two away from you.

Anyways, welcome, and I've seen your car b4, about time u got on the forums :P I'll be cruisin to dandy tonight at 8ish for a mate's 21st if anyone wants to try n dent my car so I can do my rear spoiler on insurance...

hehe welcome again...

arghhhhhhhhhhh :eek:

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