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[QLD] Altezza Club Drive Day; QLD 1st '07 Cruise - 18th Feb 2007
Topic Started: Oct 30 2006, 01:42 AM (3,478 Views)
LXTASY
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Can't wait till the morning guys. Been so long. My girlfriend and i are going to see if we can borrow her work 2 way radio tomorrow for the trip. getting up at 6am to wash and detail my car down at the servo. haha. See you guys in the morning. :burnout:
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bmalar
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LXTASY,Feb 17 2007
09:28 PM
Can't wait till the morning guys. Been so long. My girlfriend and i are going to see if we can borrow her work 2 way radio tomorrow for the trip. getting up at 6am to wash and detail my car down at the servo. haha. See you guys in the morning. :burnout:

I washed my car this afternoon...

Then it showered on it this afternoon when i was out <_<
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i am back! just got home from airport.. tired! going to sleep now! ready for tmr~

my car is washed...1 week ago, and been in the garage since~ going for the rough look!

see you all tmr!
a very mean stocko Toyota IS200! its not just the car, its how you drive it
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herher. I washed my car this arvo too. kept in the garage and drove mum
's car out in the evening, so my IS baby still nice and shinny..
See u all tomoro morning
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jstep
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Pretty cool cruise guys, awesome roads! I managed to get a couple of nice shots of graham, oliver, and when we stopped and had a photoshoot.

How did everyone else's photos go?

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Hi there, I have rehosted the images for you on Photobucket, please read the thread Image Posting to find out more on how to host images.
Thanks xnickx
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grahamd
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Don't forget to tell how the photo of my car was taken Jesse - someone was standing up through the sunroof as we were driving in the rain.

Great drive - for the total day I did 495km's from home and back - shame the rain slowed us down.

Was good to see everyone again.
Graham D
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Great drive guys too bad it pissed down at montville would be good to look at the shops more, as usual get back to brisbane and its fine B) B)
Great roads this time round next time in the dry.

Whats next on the list steven'
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bmalar
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Yeah guys... Another great day and drive... Love those roads (when we going out on the Bikes Graham?).. It was too bad about the rain.. I feel like i got to know my car today, which was good..

All up for me (with a detour to pomona after montville) 398kms..
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Good to see a pretty good turn out yesterday.
despite thw weather, I still enjoy the drive. the wet condition just add some more excitment compare to our previous "all fine weather cruise". also it showed how well our cars holding the road..

5x IS200s (Josh, Graham,Oliver,Dr X3000,Steven)
2x IS250s (Gary, Ben)
1x GS300 (Jesse)
1x Euro (ChrisF, he couldn't get onhold of his mum's IS300 or his sister's IS200)

we started at our favorite route-- Mt. CootTha, Mt. Nebo, Samford Vally, Mt. Mee.
(~1.5 hour non stop).

again, stopped at Mt. Mee Road for the photoshotting. (again my favorite photospot).

This time we stretched further north. Graham took the lead on a road which his last visit was 10 years ago. Thanks to his good memory..
We arrived out final destination Montville just after 1pm. we struggled to find parkings as it's a popular tourist area.
We managed to regroup and find ourselves a cafe to have some feed and chat.

I wondered around those craft shops and cafe until 4:30pm, then head south back to BNE through highway. ~370km rip for me ..
now my IS is reaching 70,000km soon. rear tyres need replacement soon (still running on the OEM Sp9000, front tyres still good 30% I think)

Thanks Jesse for the photos. I will tidy up more pics tonight and post them up.
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LXTASY
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It was a good trip. My eyes were killing me towards the end and i couldnt wait to get home. haha. We past chris in his euro again just before the gateway bridge. i did end up going down steve irwin way and got a bit of traffic but not too much.

I really need to trust my car more as i was a little too afraid of hitting it in the wet. after seeing stevens car with those tyres i knew i wasnt trusting mine enough. lol. great to see new mods on the cars guys and cant wait to go on a nice beach cruise next time maybe. :woot:
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jstep
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i reckon, cruise was awesome, this should happen more often!
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LXTASY,Feb 19 2007
01:34 PM
I really need to trust my car more as i was a little too afraid of hitting it in the wet. after seeing stevens car with those tyres i knew i wasnt trusting mine enough. lol.

hee hee.
Josh, Good on you that you take great care of your baby. It's always good to be slow and onthe safe side. and never push beyong your comfort zone when driving on public roads.
We went out as a group for nice cruise and enjoying driving thru the winding road. No matter how slow people drive. we dont race...

Obviously I have more experience with IS, and I have done some defensive driving courses. perhaps helped me a bit. but I still drive relatively slow in wet. no room for error!!

Safe Driving !yeah !..

PS: Oliver is not a good role model when comes to mountain road driving... herher
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Yeah.. I didn't push the 250 much as I don't know it yet.. I managed to keep up tho and the backend stepped out once as I pushed hard in a low gear thro a wet tight corner.. (Jesse saw that and was behind me at the time)..

The GPS works great, selected the shortest distance to Pomona and it took me straight to the bruce hwy.. Anyone else take this little dodgy mountain side road almost immediatley off to the left of Montville?? Straight faced cliff edges with no barriers and rock falls over the road in one part.. Interesting.. haha
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jstep
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lol.. Oliver is a nutcase!

I did nebo a couple of weeks ago, at night ... in stormy weather! haha... Mountains are a really good way to learn the limits of your car...

Just a suggestion for the next cruise...

Gympie Skidpan? :)
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jstep,Feb 19 2007
03:05 PM

Gympie Skidpan? :)

Not a bad idea... One of my mates just did that recently.. They have closed the Mt cotton one haven't they??
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bmalar,Feb 19 2007
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Yeah.. I didn't push the 250 much as I don't know it yet.. I managed to keep up tho and the backend stepped out once as I pushed hard in a low gear thro a wet tight corner.. (Jesse saw that and was behind me at the time)..

The GPS works great, selected the shortest distance to Pomona and it took me straight to the bruce hwy.. Anyone else take this little dodgy mountain side road almost immediatley off to the left of Montville?? Straight faced cliff edges with no barriers and rock falls over the road in one part.. Interesting.. haha

I'm also took that road. but still get traffi jam on Bruce Hwy also same on WV(bug) on fire on side of Hwy.
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AH looks like it was a nice cruise apart from the rain.
I'm :o that i missed it.

Unfortunately between the randomness of chinese new year on saturday night ( i live in fortitude valley) and the random gf of my female roomates that decided to make my bed her own since friday night much to my gf's :angry: all in one insane sat night, I could hardly keep my eyes open on the way to byron at 7 in the morn on sunday. I hardly survived the 194 ks let alone how many you guys got through :lol:
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chris_F
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well looks like my registration has come through finally so i can post the pictures i took on the day. Thanks a lot for letting me tag along guys, was a really enjoyable day, I love my altezzas :)

anyway here's the pics

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who let this guy come? lol
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:o

WOW.... Those pics are awesome Chris!!!!!!!

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How can I get a copy of all of them?????!! ;)
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nice shots chris! would you mind sending us some of those in full res??

To everyone... i think we should keep the ball rolling and organise another date for another cruise... Anybody in?
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chris_F
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thanks guys

If you'd like, just PM me with your email address and which shot(s) you'd like an I'll re-process them in a higher resolution then send them to you.

I've gone through and numbered them now to make it easier
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WOW Nice Pics

Has Pic 9 been edited or were those clouds that dark :lol:
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they have been edited slightly, but the sky was really dark on the day
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