Stang

Not my photos, but some from a drift practice at Mallala last night.

And a good mix in this one.

A bunch of Foresters and Stags sliding around... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg43CsYQybc

Another few days passed before another hills run, although I mostly concentrated on driving, not taking photos of the car.

A few days later I went back up to Sleeka Spares, from memory to pick up my other A31 novelty plate. Kelly's Cefiro looked pretty good in daylight too, although the front bar had seemingly gone walkabout. I'm tempted to try and track down some of the same style of headlights, I quite like the look of them.

My brother tried sitting in the front seat with the canvas, which didn't really work too well. With the Ceffy full, I backed the Civic up so more stuff could get packed in for the 1 minute drive home.

Our actual engagement party was held on the 12th of November which went really well, with 150 or so family and friends helping us celebrate. After a couple of very low days during the week, I was fortunate that the Saturday was a really good day, so I was able to hang around and talk with people, although I started getting very worn out later in the afternoon. A couple of friends made an insanely cool engagement cake for us. We knew the concept, but the execution was stunning, with everything right down to the last detail on the camera's buttons and dials. While pretty much everyone there knew I was very unwell, I think some didn't realise quite how drastic my problems are, and assumed I just have trouble eating and am allergic to lots of foods. Making a speech before cutting the cake, there was an audible gasp from several people when I said that the engagement party date marked my 400th day of not being able to eat. Speaking of the engagement, we had a photo shoot a few weeks ago with our wedding photographer, Karalee from www.angelsmithphotography.com and she recently posted this sneak peek on her facebook page which I quite like. Here's the aforementioned canvas print, nicely personalised with lots of messages scribbled all over it. We ended up with quite a nice haul of presents, more than enough to fill the Ceffy's boot and backseat.

Oops.

Seems we crossed paths again today, looks nice with the black wheels!

Gotta love tough 57 Chevs. The next week, I was able to do a little bit of work, taking hospital interior photos for the architecture company my Dad works for. It was nice being in a hospital as a worker and not a half-dead patient, as well as being paid to be there. I found a good park next to an R33. After a couple of hours shooting, I went into the city to Atkins Technicolour, the professional photo lab where I get most of my stuff printed. With the engagement party coming up, I'd ordered a canvas print with a photo for people to write on. With that safely stowed in the back, I headed for home to rest.

This hot rod was much better presented than the other two, but with a blown V8 up front, it was just as deranged. By this point I was getting quite tired from walking around and holding my camera, so I decided to head home, snapping a few more shots on the walk back to my car.

This Corvette Stringray was interesting. Why have just one huge turbo when you could have two?

I have a bit of a thing for 1950s era American pickups, like this immaculate Ford F100. Although I would prefer something I could actually drive.

These were probably the most deranged rods in the show, scraping the ground and wearing tyres wide enough to raise a family on. I'm not sure if this bottle of nitrous oxide is functional or not, but combined with the tyres, ride height and chain steering wheel, at least it's a cool way to die if so.

Monster turbos seemed to be the theme of the day. I don't usually like the whole S15 with bodykit and shiny wheels style mods, but for what it was, I actually kind of liked the look of this one.

Moving on, this Mazda FD RX7 caught my eye, as did the impressive engine bay.

You may recognise this Cefiro fom previous posts; it belongs to Kelly from Sleeka Spares. Since my last visit to the shop, it had undergone a full respray, and was looking quite smart with the new pink and black exterior.

There were some imports on display as well, including a few drift cars.

The first car on display inside was an old-school Batmobile. There were loads of cool cars on display, with quite a few cool hot rods, like this 1934 Ford Roadster.

There were some cars parked on the grass outside the main pavilion, including this tidy looking R34 GT-R. At the entrance there was a 1934 Chevrolet hot rod, looking very slick with its satin black paintwork and shining chrome.

I thought of cleaning the car before heading up to the Extreme Horsepower show, but figured I would only be in the carpark anyway. There were a few big American pickups on the way in, this Ford F150 dwarfs the Mitsubishi Lancer parked next to it. This GMC with dual rear wheels looks like it could tow a house without breaking a sweat.

Oh ok,cool. Thanks. After the country drive to Tailem Bend and back, there were a lot of bug spatters and corpses spread around the front end.

I went to the meet point for a bit, had to go to a birthday party but lots of nice cars turned up. I put some photos up on my blog here: http://carscameraschronicillness.blogspot.com/2011/12/hardtunednet-christmas-charity-cruise.html