Annual Cruise Shakedown....
 

Hi Everyone from the Plantation Hotel in Coffs Harbour.....

All of the AGT Family are now on their way home to Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra.

Kitty and I are still here, and could be here under better circumstances, but things are on the improve. Stinky has developed a water leak and needs medical attention so we've got to stay on until we can get mechanical access tomorrow.

We'll post more in the coming days, but we look forward to reading everyone elses reviews of the weekend and seeing the pics...

Massive props to Dan, Nate, Aleks, Bourbs, Kyle for your help and support today anytime, anyway, anything I will repay the favour.


A.

Good to hear you made it to the hotel safe. Any details on the leak?

This trip only cost me an exhaust (lucky I got some spares ;)), bump-stops, struts, and some underbody weight reduction from the afore mentioned failures! :p

Did either of the Nates bring my trolley jack back with them? I'm gonna need it to fix my own car. "Hmmm, upgrades...".

Best AGT meet ever BTW. :)
Gav.

HIGH FIVE best meet ever!!!! it was so much fun ! when is the next one?

it most certainly was a weekend of sh!ts and giggles :)

we finally got into Canberra a touch after 1am ... and Dan pushed on ... thanks for the ride

it's also good to see that Stinky's diagnosis was a common cold ;) have a nice extended break folks

well ... back to work and hellllllooooooo grindstone

What a big weekend, a big thanks for those who attended and a big we missed ya for thems that couldn't.

It only took 17 hours to get home yesterday (crossing the border at Tocumwal spot on 9pm).

phwoah sounds like ut was a late one home at 1amish!

I had heaps of fun... it was not to bad being in the tent so that was good and it was good to see that most people put in their fair share :) thanks to all the people that put allot of effort into the AGT 2007 ANNUAL CRUISE!!!.

miss bourbs

hey, what did you guys end up doing on the sunday?

if only i didn't have plans i would have loved to chat longer. my encounter was only breif. it was good to see the cars. specially Dans with the new lights, lookin good. Wat happened to the rex wing by the way? Who owns the Laser Lynx?

i'm back. more later.

good to hear everyone got home safely

good to hear u made it back hope ur refill on the way home went smooth

glad to here u got home safe everyone.

i had a great weekend or as colley would say a SEXY TIME hahaha

with any luck stinky will be back home in ACT tomorrow

i will be burning all the movies made and dan will be making them availiable to download from this site (from what he has told me)

WHOOHOO!!
Give me your tears, Gypsy! HIGH 5!

Guys, I had such a mad weekend - and it really was MAD! Extremely random and funny.
Thanks to everyone for making it so much fun :)
Thank u to brian for driving me up.
Thanks to kitty and rod for organising decorations. And my darling girls, ellie and coley for getting the pinata and lollies up, and giving me the best weekend - u two really made it sooooo funny. All of 2day i've had your voices echoing in my head going "HI 5!" "Sexytime!"....hahaha
Thanks to Pimp Dan for driving us around....you were awesome! I could even sleep in the back of the car, even when we were whizzing around corners at interesting speeds!
Thanks to aaron for the awesome drive on Sunday - those falls were mad! The photos are great! Luke is setting my photo gallery up as i type, so tomorrow i should be able to post the photos up. they're fab!
And a BIG BIG thanku to kyle, for the random, funny, hectic ride home ;) U know what erks me? Ppl who drive.......hahahaa that video is going to be SOOOO funny! Sorry Dan about freaking u with the camera flash - it was ALL kyle's idea!!
Glad to hear everyone got home safely :)
Borat rocks! Look at the baaaby! hahaha ;) I really hope a lot of you can come over to London for a holiday and visit :) Make sure you PM me and keep in touch :) XXX

haha back at work today and my first customer had a baby i neerly bust out laughing * its a BABY* good times

thanx for the great cruise and meet up to all who were involved in organising this event, kitty and aaron for all the late nights research and also newman for the nice scenic cruise for the sunday... point lookout was a fun drive and made us all look like rally drivers the next day... shall see canberrans at new years...
nimrod it was a bummer you couldnt hang out with us much...

and by the way i dont think ill be watching borat for another 5 years, i got enough of it in my ears over the weekend and it makes it hard to sleep now :p

and also glad to hear stinky is all fixed properly and will be leaving to head to canberra in the morning...hope you two have a good easy, relaxing and fun trip on the way back home...

amish nate :D

hahaha no probs leigh i couldnt think of a more amussing way to spend 5hrs or how ever long it was. yeah i am watching the car movies atm :P u and ur trying to make me dance and drive .... kyle dance with ur fingers... now ur head .... now ur anyway and that red frog was cool he was pimpin his way home hahaha

yeah mad fun

this was an awsome meetup huge thanks going out to kitty and aaron for getting this all happening and all the other helpers out there.

P.S
dont follow dan on a high way make him follow you as when ur following him ur fuel ecconimy DROPS hardcore :P

Was one of the best weekends I had, even though I seem to have missed the majority of the shinanigans, I had an absolute blast!!!!

It's not good to hear about your issues Kitty and Aaron, but last I hear, all was good, car was back, and you where staying another night to make sure you had enough daylight hours to drive home safely....

I had some issues of my own, I left to head to Brisbane for my week-long holiday, and got to Grafton before the gearbox went into lock-down mode stuck in 3rd. An ECU reboot was enough to fix the issue, but I still had that stupid japanese message on my dash, coming up more and more frequent.

Turns out Bill and Ted where right, the fringgin thing was saying DIAG MODE, so I went into diag mode to find out there was a SUS 21 and SUS 22 Suspension error.

After looking it up, it was p1ssing and moaning about the rear suspension, so I finally ran the forced diag-mode it was trying to get me to run, then the error messages vanished.

After taking it to Toyota for a general health check on the computer, I found the rear of the car suffered a 1.2 tonne (roughly 2 vertical G-forces) of pressure to the rear, which kinda unsettled the TEMS suspension. After deleting the error messages, the car's fine, so all good my side.

Leigh, I was more than happy to drive you up, it was a pleasure, and was painless, it was either drive up with you, or drive by myself, I rathered have someone to talk to, and good conversations where had.

Had a ball when I was up there, but I got to admit, I rathered stay in Belenger, it was about 15 degrees warmer.

I also have to stand by my statement Saturday night, That wasn't my baby!!!


B.

I had a great time.

Almost didn't get there in the Astina after the timing belt slipped the night before i was due to leave due to a rogue bit of plastic cam cover.

Had a great time driving up - giving the astina a chance to stretch it's legs for the first time in a while.

and of course it was great to see everyone again, and a few people for the first time :D

Next year it'll be in my 'back yard' apparently, so watch out. ;)

Yay get to camp again! hahah and be warmer than everyone else...haahah

ooo that sounds like heaps of fun melbourn here we come !