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General Meeting - Tuesday 16 March

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Bec Grand Master

Bec

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Food, Beer, Talks, People, Cars, Beer and laughs!

These social meetings are divided into two parts, the first if your hungry is a meal from the bistro and a chance to have a chat with other members then the second is a short informal meeting.

We use these meetings to give quick rundowns on past events with video's, pictures and stories etc, to address pressing matters, tell members what's happening behind the scenes and for discussion on upcoming events. It's all pretty relaxed and fun. This is a great opportunity for those of you who don't know too many members to come down and mix as new faces are always welcomed.

Time - 8.00pm start, dinner from 6.30 ish

Date - Tuesday 16 March 2010

Location - Bell's Hotel, 157 Moray St, South Melbourne (Cnr Moray St & Coventry

St Melways Ref - 57, G1)

Note - This Pub is family friendly with an area set aside for us. There is plenty of seating (tables and chairs) and meals for all.

Who is welcome - Everyone!

UPDATE:

GUEST SPEAKER

Will Day will be guest speaking (thanks Pat for organising).

Here is a bit of a run-down of what he will be chatting to us about, he spent a lot of time with Nissan in the Test & Dev in the era of the R32 GTR :D

1. In production – We were still building R31 Skylines (including SVD) together with Pulsars and Pintaras when I was in manufacturing.

2. In development – I was in the test group for the whole development program of the N14 Pulsar. We also did the local certification of the R32 GTR and can explain the local mods that were made.

3. Spare parts support – Some of the horror stories for ongoing supply of spares, particularly on low volume specials like the GTR and SVD Skyline GTS.

MERCHANDISE

- Let me know if there is anything you would like me to bring along for you to look at.

Hope to see you all there.

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RCHOO Grand Master

RCHOO

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Im expecting to see a lot of new faces at this meeting.

I will run a pre meet in the SE if someone will put there hand up to put a pre meet together in the West

and we will meet up at South Melbourne at the Meeting.

This would be a great way for all you people that want to go but not keen on turning up alone.

I will post tread in Events section.

Cheers

Birds Grand Master

Birds

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spose i could come.. although i dont know there is many paid members from west? so wouldnt be much of a premeet or can anyone attend this stuff?

Yep, anyone and everyone is welcome.

Alot of people aren't aware of this...Bec does write it in the subtitle and body of the original post, but maybe we need to promote it more?

R31Nismoid Grand Master

R31Nismoid

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UPDATE:

GUEST SPEAKER

Will Day will be guest speaking (thanks Pat for organising).

Here is a bit of a run-down of what he will be chatting to us about, he spent a lot of time with Nissan in the Test & Dev in the era of the R32 GTR :laugh:

1. In production – We were still building R31 Skylines (including SVD) together with Pulsars and Pintaras when I was in manufacturing. I could speak a little about how good (or bad) these cars were to build.

2. In development – I was in the test group for the whole development program of the N14 Pulsar. We also did the local certification of the R32 GTR and can explain the local mods that were made.

3. Spare parts support – Some of the horror stories for ongoing supply of spares, particularly on low volume specials like the GTR and SVD Skyline GTS.

I think this will be quite interesting - make sure you come along!

Rekin Grand Master

Rekin

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Ive managed to pull a fair bit of strings at work and have managed to talk my boss into coming down to the meet as a guest speaker.

He used to be a test engineer at the nissan manufacturing plant in Victoria and then became Engineering Manager, National Parts Division.

This was during the late 80's to early 90's and includes developing and building the R31 SVD, R32 GTR and N14 Pulsar SSS

He has a load of stories about the build quality of these cars, r32 gtr certification (including test drives and its thrash-ability :laugh: ) and souring spare parts when they broke back in the 90's.

I would like everyone to come as Ive put in a lot of effort to get him!!!!!!!!

Giving you a chance to ask about the R32 GTR when it was released in Australia in mint condition! Dont waste this opportunity!!!!

Back to you Ash :cheers:

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