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Hi all.

It was a damm good day.

Beautiful cars, Beautiful food and Beautiful people.

It was really good to see so many damm

fine examples of skylines.

The food at Amandas was to die for,

The view from Amandas was breath taking, the

view of Amanda could have been better,

she could've "" flashed for us""

My skyline is now owned by Moanie and Frank,

but saying that I also OWN theres.

But the best was the drive home

with franks, moanie and the xzotik1 owning that slow arse

ferrari.

Moanie and Frank: Thanks for the fun drive back

IT WAS REALLY GOOD.

Love cam..

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i had fun on the trip up the old road, though i think the section between berowra and peats ridge could've been better - we went up pretty far!? it wasn't the "usual" old pac run i do...?!?!

anyways, as Cam mentioned, the drive back down the freeway was awesome - its a real pity we met up with the 550 Maranello at the end of the freeway!!!

dark, go back to page 8 and you will see a link to my gallery of the cruise, and im keen to see other photos too...

and the "flash" was gold :)

Originally posted by franks

i had fun on the trip up the old road, though i think the section between berowra and peats ridge could've been better - we went up pretty far!? it wasn't the "usual" old pac run i do...?!?!

anyways, as Cam mentioned, the drive back down the freeway was awesome - its a real pity we met up with the 550 Maranello at the end of the freeway!!!

dark, go back to page 8 and you will see a link to my gallery of the cruise, and im keen to see other photos too...

and the "flash" was gold :)

thanks franks..

thats a nice panoramic shot :)

Originally posted by Moanie

Hahahahaha....true true....but then i think tex just had a fascination with them....he kept getting carlo to follow me around...and then there were the sleazy attempts at picking me up.....

Hehehe... Maybe I did, maybe I didn't... :P

As for my pick-up attempt, well, your reaction said it all. :(

Good work Tosh, was a fun day, the food was great, the only thing lacking for me was that I didn't have a Skyline of my own to be thrashing. I must admit I felt very left out in that regard! If I wasn't so set on sinking a stack of money in to the Riv I'd have bought one about two weeks ago...

That said, the upside is that I got some pretty good video footage. I don't want to promise too much as far as that side of things goes, but I do intend to get at least a highlights clip together in the near future. When it's available I'll post the link on here for you all. Oh, and it will be for cable users or very patient dial-up users only. :)

Tex

What pick up attempts Tosh!!! :P That kid was such a cutie though :)

Cam...good to see you had fun! But seriously, i dunno how you could have possibly owned me!!! ;) That ferrari was so ready to give us a go....and then we had to go and run outta freeway :(

Hahaha...Tex you kill it!!! If it had been possible I would have fallen outta my seat from laughing so hard...and even then i was still giggling a good 10 mins after :)

Originally posted by Moanie

Hahaha...Tex you kill it!!! If it had been possible I would have fallen outta my seat from laughing so hard...and even then i was still giggling a good 10 mins after :(

Hehehe, good stuff. :) I thought for a moment I may have actually endangered you, due to the fact you suddenly weren't looking at the road anymore, but in the general direction of the floor of your car... :P Too bad I didn't get your reaction on video! :)

Tex

Great cruise, I enjoyed it. I've got some B&W footage from my mini camera - only a prototype setup at the moment but I'll dub some of it to audio and put it up when I get a chance.

Mona got quite a workout on the dirt section, don't have much of a tolerance for up and down do you? Shame :mad:

Incidentally Mona, my arse featured in the "other" film so don't worry about it.. these things happen :)




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