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Originally posted by gtrken

No but I believe a couple of guys came from the Army over there with skid car experience and are working for DTEC

John Willmot is one I think

Cheers

Ken

I met John once or twice his name rings a bell the Army guys did it as a full time job we only sat in for our courses so the Navy troops had a Navy staff member there.

Originally posted by bully

i think i saw a video of that set up with the camrys once when we were look into contracting out driver training for the services

yea we were trying to pick up the forces when they were looking at Privitisation.

Unfortunately there were too many white shirts upstairs with too much to lose and too many hidden agendas.

Cheers

Ken

Originally posted by GTS-t VSPEC

Ken,

I was impressed by the way Micko's handles, and yes I will buy a GTR, but probably not just yet. My appendage is bigger:p

See'ya:burnout:

Dude if you were impressed with the handling you wanna ride in one with a real driver at the helm - take a spare pair of jocks though:D

anyway , enough of the reminiscing and hanging shit ( and probably washing ) on pwptf 's appendage.

The bootlid would fit a complete load on.

His personal one would just hold a gstring and a very small peg

Cheers

weiners anyone ??

Ken

Originally posted by GTS-t VSPEC

Bully/Ken,

Sounds like you've both done alot, makes my career seem kinda boring. Sit behind a desk and use a computer, I think I need a different job.

See'ya:burnout:

Thats what i do now but yer had a lot of fun in my younger days and still am. I think you guys have refreshed me i was begining to feel old till i got the Supra and found you guys

Originally posted by gtrken

anyway , enough of the reminiscing and hanging shit ( and probably washing ) on pwptf 's appendage.

The bootlid would fit a complete load on.

His personal one would just hold a gstring and a very small peg

Cheers

weiners anyone ??

Ken

i think you are being overluy generous there Ken

Originally posted by bully

ture everyone was trying to protect there own interests in the end its all gone to crap now i hear nothing but bad stories - a mate of mine is the contact manager for Navy Driver training in Melbourne he stops by for a beer whenever he flys in.

Yes , ain't that the truth.

We almost got the W A police to use them for training but some spanker SGT could see his job disappearing and canned it.

Govt f**ing dept's. Spent 1,000's on vids , professional resume's etal and in the end nothing has come of it after about 8yrs.

Got out cos I didn't need the head f*ck and the heart attack

Cheers

broke but happy

Ken

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