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Had a bit of a pleasant surprise at lunchtime

Was sitting at Barrow on the side of London Circuit having lunch about 12:15pm and started to hear a couple of distinctly different engines revving quite hard, turned my head and was greeted with a black VR/VS Clubsport having a very even run with a black R33...... neither looked or sounded stock

So I was like :headbang:

Whent he road straightened up the 33 must have grabbed 3rd and did a nice little sidestep...almost hit the Commodore though

in the end it was too close to call...... excellent I like it that way :kewl:

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yea i can probably go move it now but in the infinate words of andrew i cbf :) i must have rocked up only a bit after though only 2 spots down :(

also at least i could hopefully rely on you not to hit my door like half the others around here :) so far i am doing ok as the parks are reasonably wide plus i know most of the people who come by themselfs thus parking as close to their passenger door as possible :)

ps if the dude who owns that porsche works for teletech tell him to learn how to park ffs he is half out in the middle of the car park :kick:

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took my car for a drive a couple of hours ago and just as i got out of my street spotted a Midnight Purple R33 give it a hit around the next corner as i was approaching it and a red R31 with a BIG FMIC at the same corner.

Also spotted a black R33 with a skylines australia website sticker on the back window parked halfway up a STEEP driveway in Conder

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congrats Andy! i've always wanted to say "i've taken delivery of something" sounds cool!

should have mentioned, i spotted a very nice white R33 on hindmarsh heaidng towards woden just befire the red light camera after weston, i gave a massive wave as i paased and the dude looked a little surprised but then gave a nice wave back, nice to see!

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spotted a silver r33 non turbo in the narrabunda college carpark with Xforce exhaust, also a maroon R33 looked kinda stock parked on the top level of woden carpark today, and a dark green R33 looked stock also going down the highway that goes past woden plaza towards weston creek around 8am today

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Also spotted a black R33 with a skylines australia website sticker on the back window parked halfway up a STEEP driveway in Conder

That sounds suspiciously like mine... at my house. That's where it lives at night :) i hate the driveway, real pain, means i can't lower the car either.

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oh man this is starting to get really homo, who carries eggs around with them HONESTLY!?!? ok people, if your car gets egged put down all the info on them on the forums so then if we see them we can have a nice calm chat about what theyve done(MY ASS!!!!!!!), dam man thats FU(KED in the head!! i think we should all have a 12 pack of eggs in our cars from now on lol

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