PAST: melb cruise 28/06
 

Hi All,

I'll be the first one to post... top cruise today. A very big thanks to Mikey and his girlfriend for the great food and top location for the BBQ, and also for organising this event.

Everything went smoothly on the way down to Torquay. We found it very amusing hearing cows on the princes fwy all the time!!! That air-horn was the funniest thing on the road! Also funny seeing Dan's hands clinging onto the camera out of the car window taking pictures at 100km/h!

Pity about the traffic heading into Lorne, although we made it amusing enough for each other.

We detoured down to Eastern beach for an ice-cream and to stretch our legs, then down to Williamstown for some dinner. Nice finish to a great day.

I have pictures of most cars and some good ones of the road...esp Dave's car.

Yeah, I'll try load them up somehow!

Bring on the "Wretch is finally on the road cruise"!!!!

Cheers,
Bill

yep thanks for organising. it was a great day.

lol @ cows. There was also a dog on the back of a ute that was getting pretty freaked out by some mysterious barking !!

great, i need some new photos of my car :D havnt taken any for a while. its about time i got myself an avatar again.

it was really good to meet some of the newer ppl.

i've got a 3 photos & a few dodgy videos i took with my phone on the freeway. lense had pocket fluff in it tho so i dunno how they turned out !


Dave

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF????????????????

HOW COULD I MAKE SUCH A BIG MISTAKE LIKE THIS???

for some reason I thought it was on SUNDAY!! it's 10AM now, and i was about to head off!!!!!!!!! thought i just check the forum one last time!!!

DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, I'm all ready and excited to go NOWHERE now, what a crap day this turned out to be.

i was so looking forward to coming...

D'OH!!! No worries mate, we'll post up all the pics for you shortly... I'll be working on them today and uploading them..

Yes, it was a fantastic day.... A big thank you to Mike and Dani for the food, and Jeremy [Dutchy] for the slab of coke! :D

It was rather entertaining along the "GOR" on the way to Lorne.. some of us decided that there were some good [if limited] areas to pass the slower cars that were sight seeing along the way.... Jimmy_Z was behind me in the black Jap-spec V6 and I loved that passing of the 4WD when there was a Prado coming the other way :lol: :lol: :lol: She took some nice defensive action and nearly ran herself off the road!

Only 2 piggies were spotted, which was surprising.. And there was also a mention of a fixed speed camera but heading back there wasn't any obviously positioned so that we could see them.. I guess some of us may find a pressie in the mail in the next week or 2 if there was even one there. :shock: :roll:

I will advise of when I have put the pics I took up...

Cheers
Adam

Again,
Thanks to Mike for organising the day. A job done well is a job done well, it was a great day out.

Sorry that you guys got caught behind the slow (oooooooooooh look, there is another tree) traffic. I was lucky enough to get about 60% through before some 4wd sucked the fun out of the road by putting along at 30km/h.
Just at the end a Lazer (honary Astina) and I broke free and raced another 15km. Passing cars 3-4 at a time needed to be done as 60km in a 100km zone was not acceptable.

Fun, fun, fun!
More, more, more!
Now, now, now!

Rod

Alrighty then! My Digital photo galleries are now up! Go to http://au.geocities.com/mrpayner/astinagt.html to see them... If clicking that link doesn't work, copy then paste it! There's mostly photos of when the cars are parked, but there are just a couple of the twisties too! I am looking forward to seeing Dan's photo's as his camera spent a lot of the time out the side of Trav's car window! :lol:

Enjoy them...

Adam

Mmmm,
My strange console,
http://au.geocities.com/mrpayner/ast...ise019_big.jpg
Top; Jap-spec Climate control. Aussie-spec car, almost workin'. (Kiddies don't try this at home)
Middle; Standard Factory Radio :(
Bottom :oops: ; Mx-6 CD player :?

A bit of a mixed bag but what else would you expect.

Rod

Damn guys....looks like a great time.

Darn tootin'

You should've been there :D 'ts only seven hours to Melbourne.

Rod

Tru that!
My car's in the shop though.

Hopefully you guys can come hit up Canberra again at some stage!

Oh...yeh....Rod. Geocities doesn't allow remote linkage unfortunately. I may need to put that pic onto another server so it's viewable on these pages.. :(

Adam

Looked like an awesome cruise guys,well done,nice pics :wink:

You guys have some great looking cars!!

This is a great web site too everytime i have a read here i learn something new :roll:

A lot of unique features on the cars in those pictures too.

Looks to have been a great cruise, and a good showing of cars as well!!

plus you guys had the best weather on sat. for it too!!

l'll be at the next one for sure! :):)

I am really disappointed that you didn't fit the rear springs Adam, you really could have gone the boy racer launch look as seen in the before & after pics:

BEFORE SPRINGS:
http://www.amihotornot.com.au/album/...3629212111.jpg

AND AFTER SPRINGS:
http://www.amihotornot.com.au/album/...3629212032.jpg

:lol: Would have been a sight :lol:

helloooo astinagt members
excellent cruise!
thanks to Mike and his girlfriend :) for the BBQ & organising the event, good stuff guys :lol:
yeah im the one with the air horn and animal noises :D
cant wait for the next cruise

nice photos Adam :wink:
lots of pics of my car in there !! thanks !! i've been needing some good photos :) now I can start filling up my Readers Ride. If that's ok ?

my car,
my sills,
my bonnet,
my dvd player,
my tv,
my rsm,
my wheel,
me doing laps around the round-about :?:
and my car's ASS :shock: :lol:

love them !
your pics now Dan !! im hanging to see the videos u took.

3 pics from my camera.

http://www.davesole.com/photos/June03Cruise/

I still have to grab the rest off my phone...

Great pics guys... i am going to try and load mine up tonight... i was unsuccessful building a quick website yesterday (tripod has f'all bandwidth!!), so i'm going to try on geocities, seems Adam has a bit of bandwidth there.

Gday everyone, thanks guys for the cruise, sorry I piked and didnt come to lorne as i had to be back in melb early, was good to meet you all (didnt get a chance to meet everyone but ill get around to that next time!) and thanks for the photos they look great (but then again astinas are very photogenic).

Jared (the dark green BG)