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9 hours ago, Shoota_77 said:

Wow, what a journey!  She looks nice after the paint job, nice and white again!  I'm sure it will be pretty amazing to see it roll out of the container back in Oz!

What took you to Georgia in the first place?  Not a country I know a lot about really.

 

it was SAU's fault,  when I was posting flat out here tuning skylines a guy called Guricha got me to remote tune his cars in Georgia and it all just took off from there.

Yes she looks really nice,  it needs some work like a engine strip down and check and running gear etc but that should not be too hard.

  • 2 weeks later...

Such a cool thread and great to see this update, congrats on the car.

I spent much of 2021 (while our country lost the plot with lockdowns) living in Tbilisi and I thought of and re-read this.  Georgia is my favourite country, I love almost everything about it, I can't wait to get back. 

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Hey mate!  Yes I agree it is great,  especially when you know alot of people there,  did you ever go to Mclarens Irish pub there?  I spent lots of time there it is great.

I love Tbilisi in the winter,  its just amazing when it snows.

 

I picked up the car yesterday and it is now sitting in my workshop,  I have not been able to raise a spanner to it because I just keep pacing around it in disbelief that it is actually here in my workshop.

 

 

May be an image of car

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We didn’t unfortunately, we spent a fair bit of time in old town, but lived in Vake so did most of our drinking around there 😂

Shame we left in November before it got too cold, I heard a lot of people say how beautiful it is around Christmas. 
 

Glad to hear you got the car safely! 

On 1/10/2023 at 9:47 PM, GT-R32 said:

We didn’t unfortunately, we spent a fair bit of time in old town, but lived in Vake so did most of our drinking around there 😂

Shame we left in November before it got too cold, I heard a lot of people say how beautiful it is around Christmas. 
 

Glad to hear you got the car safely! 

When i went there in dec 2019 i stayed in Guram's spare unit he had at the time in Vake,  great spot in the city there!

 

I let fireworks off the balcony for NYE on 13th floor haha

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