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Yeah Stef all the usual stuff. But please you check with them about CAMS, fire extinguisher etc. I don't want you getting there and not able to run for some unforseen reason. Good to have you on board. Now we can see your car in action. I thought Sulio & Lurch might have been in on this.

Hi guys, well a few of us are doing one last sprint for the year at Sandwon. It is an evening event from 5-9pm at Sandown on friday the 19th December. Cost is $150- and a max of 30 cars. Who is going:- Craig in his V8 Zed Gordon in his GTR Dave Robertson in his 240Z Ben Winston in his GTR Justin Mahar in his 1600 If any of you guys want to join us then get in quick. Only about 6 places left. I don't think you have to be a member of a club or have a CAMS licence since it is more of a test & training night. But we will definately be sneaking in some timed laps. Instructors will be available to go around with you if you want. Details are here. Give them a call or let me know if you want to join in the fun. http://driverdynamics.com/trackdays.html Cheers

Great idea Warren. Send it in. You might also want to forward the write up to Sulio & Gav so they can use it with the pictures as a feature article. Save one of us writing it. Gav & Sulio it would be great if we can strike while the iron is hot on this and get a feature up by the end of the week. In a month's time sort of miss's the big impact. Sulio I can come over and give you a hand if you like.

Ahh now I remember talking to you. Well done on the 3hour round trip. Awesome effort. Probably worth it given the rare turn out.

Hi Matt, You are exactly right. We were talking about that later. I could leave the kids to run around and not have to worry about them. Nor worry about stranges looking over our cars and wondering if they were in our group or not. At least you knew everyone there was from our group. Did we catch up Matt? Having travelled all that way mate I would be sorry if we wern't introduced. Unfortunately I can't remember. There were a number of new faces.

Date locked in 20th to 23rd February 2009. I hope that's OK??? OK That place looks nice. But let's keep it in perspective. It's a 25 minute drive to Thredbo and it probably a little isolated. Every time you want to go somewhere or do something you will have to hop in your car. $65- won't cover a chairlift pass either. ($25-?) How much to eat there or how much in Petrol to drive 25mins up and down the mountain a few times? You stay at Thredbo Resort and you don't have to start your car again for the stay if you don't want to. If we stay in the heart of town there is plenty of places to walk around and look at. Bars, Shops, various restaurants including takeaway Pizza's etc. Great atmosphere. Look at the site I had in the initial post. It has a bar, pool table, restaurant etc. It's price will include breakfast and all day lift pass's. Go up and down as many times as you like. Plus there will be other people around. Alright for you couples but some people might be on there own and want to party somewhere. I will check tomorrow when I am at work. But the average rate is $165- per room which when divided by two is obiously $82.50pp. Best price with no breakfast for the scum bag is $115- per double room. Personally that's the option I want to take for the Vic people. Especially since we are entering Threadbo from the rear. We would be adding another 25minutes to our 5.5hour journey if we stayed off the mountain. I think we will be done once we hit the Village. If the ACT guy's want to stay out of town that's up to you. Looks like at least half the people are bringing there partners. Looks like I might be on my own.

WOW..... What an awesome day we had. 26 Oold Zeds and 3 x 350Z's + a 300 and a GTR. We ended up with around 55-60 people all up. My only regret was that we didn't take a group photo of all the people. Damn. Apart from that the weather was perfect (well most of the time) and it was a great opportunity to meet everyone. Hopefully I met most of you. Gordon had a ball and the raffle of the 136 piece tool kit, Chrissy Chocies and 5 Nissan Clocks seemed to work well. We raised $60- profit towards the kitty for next year. It's a start. When we went for that drive I wasn't sure how many we got till we stopped and waited at the Healesville turn off. 18 Zeds in a row. I couldn't beleive it. The day was a highlight for me as I had never seen that many Zeds in a row let alone a gathering of Zeds exclusively in such numbers. Gordon seemed pretty cool to make it an annual event so we might have to lock that one in for next years calander. I hope you all had as much fun as I did. Cheers

I don't think I have any pictures of the guards with these on. But they are moulded similar to the pictures on that website. Go for it they fitted perfectly and I am a fussy bastard. Like I say you hardly notice them on the car. Prior to these and the last paint job. I had stone chips down to the metal on my guards. Sticky tyres and track work don't help. I found a pic at Symmons Plains but because they fit in you hardly notice them.

I got my moulded mud spats from the USA. Search around this site. http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/CTGY/SG I can't remember how much. Maybe $80- for front & rear. Cost me $150- in freight because I accidently air freighted them. Just as well work paid for that. Ship it over snail mail and you will be OK. I reckon they are great. It protects my nice paint job. I put them on for the Tassie trip 1,000 klms. But I have left them on since you hardly notice them my car being all Red & Black. They come off in 10mins if it went in a concourse or something. But I don't do them much these days. come along this Saturday if local and check them out.

Cool. At the moment I am leaning towards 20-23th Feb. I will check with a few people this weekend and lock in a date next week. Then I will suss out accommodation and if you guys from Canberra want to stay off the mountain then that's your call. It will fragment the group a bit. Accommodation will only be around $100- per night per person including breaky. I will confirm all next week. Sounds like this is a definate goer now. Cheers

No worries Bluerat. We went down there on one of our trips and a good mate was in his 1600. His car was flying on some of your awesome roads down there. By all means join in on our next trip. The more the merrier I say no matter what the car. Hiring Symmons plains was a massive buz with the track to our selves. We will be definately doing that again. Cheers

I will try and have a look at hampers if you are willing to flog the tickets on the day Sulio. If we sell 20 we break even and 40 then we will have some cash to start the BBQ's off in the new year.

Hey I was thinking it might be an idea to spend a $100- on a Christmas hamper and sell tickets for $5.00 for 3 tickets. This might raise some money to start the Bank account with. But would also serve three purposes. 1) Someone selling them could get the name and details of attendee's cars (for the record) 2) That would give us an excuse to all gather together for the draw and thank Gordon for openning up his place before some head off on the drive. 3) A bit of fun. Just an idea. Any volunteers to go around selling the tickets if I got the hamper?

Sinisha had something on and Daniel Moore hadn't replied after a few direct emails. I left it at that. I know Daniel is pretty busy at work at the moment. I dropped in about 3-4 weeks ago and he is flat out trying to finish an awesome white Zed. Full on race prep, will be a stinker but the owner is in England and the car will be shipped back there so we will never see it. We hope to get a number of various shots. Some of car, drivers next to their cars and a group shot of people only isn't a bad idea. You NSW guys should try and make Threadbo in Feb'09.

Ahhhh come on Lurch you could have put it up there you know.

Goods question Simon. Well there will be plenty of BBQ space. Gordon as a big wood BBQ and he also plans on wheeling around his gas one as well. So we can have 2 going at the one time. As far as cutlery, plates, sauce, salads, bread, drinks etc. Even a chair or two wouldn't go astray. So I say please bring your own "stuff". Gordon's happy to open his house as long as his wife doesn't have to do anything and he doesn't have to throw on all the other conderments (even though he sort of feels he should). So I ask you bring your own picnic stuff and food and we will be in for a great day. Partners & kids welcome. If it is wet there is still plenty of cover under a huge gazebo, 6 car garage etc. Even the barby is under a shelter. I look forward to meeting you all on Saturday. Please introduce your selves around and look for anyone on there own and make an extra effort to include them. We wondered if name tags might be an idea but it might be going a bit far??? PS: If the Club gets a little financial then next year if we do it again we could throw on all the extra stuff for nothing. By the way if your Zed is off the road still come along and introduce your self as it might be on the road the following year. You might get some inspiration to complete the car. Ha Ha

G'day Mate. I am not sure on that stuff for you. I am sure a few guys on this site might be able to help you. We have a BBQ this saturday near Lilydale. At the moment we have over 30 Zeds confirmed. I don't think I saw you on the list. You are more than welcome to come along to that and I am sure you will get some ideas there. Cheers

OK I have another 240 Zed confirmed for the Day. Dave in his Silver Zed. He won the NDSOC Championship a few years back. Pretty quick Zed. I think we will be looking at over 30 Zeds on the day if everyone rocks up. Let's hope the weather holds. Also Sulio / Lurch. Dave won't be there in his 350Z but another guy is coming in his 350Z called Brian. So that will be 2 350's there.

Hey Guys. I got down there. Met John I think it was, in his nice looking Red Zed. Introduced myself and he was already a starter for next Saturday's BBQ anyway. It was a dry day and Gordon managed to take another 4-5 seconds off his best time in his GTR now he had some new R Spec tyres. He was doing 1.53's consistently. With Brakes and suspension he should get down the the 1.50's same time as his Zed. Anything after that would probably take mega bucks. Cheers

Well done Matt. Hey I just looked Ketunga up on the map. You would have about a 1.5 hour head start on us if you were to come along on the Thredbo Trip. We could meet up at Albury and head off from there. Just thought I would throw that out there.

G'day, Well I am hopeless at remembering names and probably not the only one out there. (Lurch has it all sussed out) I saw on Dimitri's sign on or ZEDMAN, that his personal name was under his sign on name and thought it was a good idea. I thought I would do the same. It might be an idea if people weren't concerned about their first name being up when they post. All you have to do is go into your "Profile" and under "Custom Title" put your first name. This might help make things a little more personal but also help when we all meet up. Well me anyway.

Excellent news Mayhem. Glad to have you and your awesome machine along. Scott unfortunately my brother probably won't make this one, although I will keep trying. Having said that he is a definate for the Tassie trip the year after. There are a few others from the Tassie trip I will approach when we lock in the date. Cheers

G'day, I will be driving down to the Island this Sunday around 10 to 10.30 to watch a few guys race around the Phillip Island track. Entry is free. So if you are after a casual drive down and a look at some nice cars including a few Zeds then let me know. Craig

Hmmm looks a bloody nice car. But I question why it's not registered and finished off to sell. Would be much easier to move then. A lot of work and money gone into that. Owned for 9 years means everything would have been done properly. Some one could get a nice car if they are prepared to finish off someone else's dream.

That's good news CDR it will be much more fun and safer if Scottie has some company for the trip. I am sorry but what is you name so I can get a list going. Craig - Definate - VIC Sulio - Definate - VIC Mayhem & Partner- Definate - VIC Bruce & Wife from Taralgon - Definate- VIC Wes & Maggie - Definate - VIC Glen from Dromana - VIC Glen's mate in his Z31 - VIC Lurch (Maybe) - VIC / WA :-\ Scott - ACT Alex & Shelly 300ZX - ACT Miika - Cdr Zero - ACT Chris - Most likely - ACT Surly_Z & Anna - ACT 6 or 7 Zeds - NSW Feel free to bring along partners on this one if you like. As I see it as more of a social holiday rather than strictly a drive. Sulio might be bringing his Fiance and me my wife if we can get the kids sorted for a few days. Once the date is locked in I figure it will be easier to get a few more on board. Let's hope this gathers some momentum like the 6/12/08 BBQ. List your name if interested. Cheers