Meiji

bump! anyone have any ideas? the metal bars don't appear to be broken - i can't see any gas struts, is the r32 boot meant to have them? pleaseeeee!!!

Thanks for the replies, fellas! >HAVE YOU CHECKED TO SEE IF THE BARS ARE BROKEN? They don't look broken - are they meant to be tawt? are these bars meant to keep my boot lid up? >do you have an aftermarket wing fitted? No, just the standard r32 wing... thanks heaps guys!

g'day everyone, well, my boot lid won't stay up. i've tried to look inside the boot for maybe a strut or something but i can't see anything except two thin bars. does anyone know how i could go about fixing this? if it's a strut regas problem, where are my struts? hellpppppppp!!

great pix but what's with taking them at funny angles? i'm feeling seasick!

so hang on - you want him to drive his car down to Melbourne and only then will you let him know if you're interested?

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hi all, ok, what i'm about to say may be a little unpopular but i think it needs to be said. first, i must say thanks to all the organisers, who must have put in a great deal of work before the show to get it up and running. Considering they're not professional event organisers, a big hand of thanks is due. second, credit is due to the skyline community, who set the import scene off very well against the idiot hoons sometimes seen around the place. good ambassadors. now, what follows is intended to be positive, constructive criticism so please don't flame me. this is just my opinion. we drove for about four hours each way to get to the event. thanks to the accident on the F3, we got there at about 12:30. we were looking forward to a good day of skylines. first, i understand that owners are wary of having strangers near their cars and there were very few other places to go, but having the owner and his friend sitting in their car checking you out while you look at the car is quite intimidating. this was a principal difference between the show and shine and, say, autosalon, where the owners aren't always standing right by their cars. the cars are, surely, meant to be looked at. some owners were clearly keen to chat about their cars (i even saw one owner letting a member of the public have a sit in his R31) but i really feel some others were just telescoping attitude. second, i'm not sure that a grassy oval is quite the best place to have a group of lowered sports cars. One area was full of muddy tyre tracks where cars had obviously lost grip, and another poster in this thread actually thanks people for helping him get unbogged. many of the cars had mud on their wheels as a result of the poor field conditions. i think a warehouse or even the mingara car park itself would have been preferable. my third point relates to the judging. I recall Abo Bob encouraging everyone to enter, saying that they wanted quantity over quality, and that this event isn't autosalon. Daily drivers were encouraged: at last, a car show which didn't reward impracticality. I am concerned, then, that many of the awards went to cars which would have predictably done well at autosalon. Some of those old skylines were immaculate, but they didn't seem to get a look in. Likewise, there didn't seem to be any kind of reward for entering a stock, well kept daily driver. fourth, given the number of SAU and skyline owners who turned up but didn't enter, i think it's a shame there wasn't a dedicated parking area for non-competing skylines. i understand that this may have discouraged people from entering, but it would have been quite a sight to see all the skylines scattered about the carpark in one area. finally, i'm not entirely sure why the entrance was chosen instead of, perhaps, somewhere in sydney or perhaps gosford. having it in sydney might have meant we could have had the press there to cover the event, get some positive publicity for the import scene. as i said at the start, this is not intended to be a whine, but rather constructive criticism. i again thank the organisers for their great work and the rest of the skyline community for a great show.

look zildogGTR, if you really are desperate to bend the rules (and it seems as though you are, from your posts), then that's up to you. others on the board have tried to tell you the consequences and that you can still get some cheap SEVS GTRs but it looks like you're not interested. this isn't a flame, but for god's sake join the dots.