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Greg Nikitiuk
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Vic
Soarer TT

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:28 pm, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Driving from Melbourne to Gold Coast, I took this picture somewhere between Albury and Sydney on the 13th of March.
I thought wow! broken down Toyota, that's different


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then as I proceeded to overtake it........look it has a twin sister, and it's white too


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Ryan Rankovic
TryHard
Victoria
Soarer TT GT-TL

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:47 pm, by:  Ryan Rankovic (Ryan1j) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

how cute!
Emanuel Spinola
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NSW
JZZ30, UZZ32

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:50 pm, by:  Emanuel Spinola (Manny) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It was taken at Marulan, between Goulburn and Sydney
...and no it's not broken down - just being moved !

Did someone once say '32s can't tow??
Greg Nikitiuk
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Vic
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:51 pm, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Many, who was the mature gentleman in glasses driving it?
Emanuel Spinola
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NSW
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 10:55 pm, by:  Emanuel Spinola (Manny) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Haha, I'll let him own up to it :-)
Greg Nikitiuk
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 11:07 pm, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I was going to take another picture as I was next to him and give him a friendly wave, but I was in a red dunnydore, it would look odd .
so who was it?
Jeff Harper
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NSW
UZZ32 Active V8

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 11:07 pm, by:  Jeff Harper (Jeffh) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wow, what a great shot!!

Yes that is my '32 plowing it's way up the highway at a leasurly 100kph.

Not bad when you think on it.

1800kg of '32
1500kg of the mystery car.
500~750 kg of trailer.


So about 3.8 ton without driver and passenger.
Greg Nikitiuk
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 11:10 pm, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

hahaha it was you Jeff.... My wife thought it was Sean Connery
Marshall Hughes
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Victoria
UZZ31

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 05:22 am, by:  Marshall Hughes (Sierra055) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So Jeff, how did you find the 32's towing ability? Obviously doesn't suffer the 31's pitching problems?
Jeff Harper
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NSW
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 07:59 am, by:  Jeff Harper (Jeffh) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Marshall, considering the load and wind resistance it drove like a dream. On the big hills it kicked down to 3rd.

As you can see, no ride height issues at all.

Sean Connery!!!, the YOUNGER version I hope!!
Greg Nikitiuk
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 11:02 pm, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We went to Gold Coast for 2 weeks. Traveling from Melbourne 2 adults + 2 kids (11 & 9) with all the luggage would not fit in a soarer. Dunnydore is a company car (SC VY) so no petrol costs for nearly 4000 km. Kids were amused in the back seat with the laptop watching DVDs or playing games. It was a great trip.
In Sydney streets and signs are pathetic. I got booked for doing a U turn at the traffic light somewhere in Manly, (I was lost 10pm at night)
After telling the copper it was my first time driving in Sydney he felt bad about the fine and offered to take us back to Potts Point where our hotel was. I followed him from Manly all the way back. After nearly running amber/red light to keep up with his SS, he only waved and smiled.
When we got there, he apologised a couple more times and said that he hates Sydney and prefers Melbourne. So that was my Sydney experience. At least in Melbourne if U turn is not permitted you will have a sign to tell you that. How the hell was I to know
Just one more thing, Pacific Hwy between Newcastle and Tweed Heads in the worst piece of sh!t I have ever been on.
Benny Gammelmark
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NSW
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 12:04 am, by:  Benny Gammelmark (Oldfield) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You obviously never drove on local roads around Turramurra. All the council money is used for kindergardens and making ready for level-2 housings.
Emanuel Spinola
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NSW
JZZ30, UZZ32

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 09:57 am, by:  Emanuel Spinola (Manny) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Greg Nikitiuk wrote on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 10:02 pm:

Just one more thing, Pacific Hwy between Newcastle and Tweed Heads in the worst piece of sh!t I have ever been on.



Our taxes pay for some of the best roads in the country...unfortunately, they are mostly in other states!
Paul Drane
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QLD
V8 Limited

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 04:27 pm, by:  Paul Drane (Paulwd) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The Newel highway is a piece of crap too.
David Vaughan
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ACT
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 07:13 pm, by:  David Vaughan (Davidv) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Newell used to be the way to drive between Qld and ACT, but there were no speed limits then, and nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Back then, on that road, I first drove a car over a decent distance at 160km/h and the car would do only 183 flat out. An Alfa, as Ollie has previously perceptively observed.

Driving my Soarer today I considered that it would blow the doors off most of the cars after which I lusted back then (and certainly all that I drove) and do so in far greater comfort and safety.
Greg Nikitiuk
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 07:13 pm, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

And it is not just the surface quality or design but the never ending variation of speed limits. They constantly change from 100 down to 40 and anything in between. Throw in several speed cams too and this makes a trip very very frustrating.
Some people in Sydney said that the only good thing to come out of Melbourne is Hume Hwy.
hehehe at least we got one decent roadway out.
Kevin la Terra
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victoria
soarer GTTL

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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 08:01 pm, by:  Kevin la Terra (Trdpsi) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

does anybody know the towing capacity of our beloved cars???
breaked & un breaked?
David Vaughan
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ACT
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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 08:47 pm, by:  David Vaughan (Davidv) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ten tonnes should break them
Emanuel Spinola
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NSW
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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 08:58 pm, by:  Emanuel Spinola (Manny) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Lexus SC300/SC400 Towing Guide

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Craig Webber
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TT

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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 09:07 pm, by:  Craig Webber (Soarr) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sorry Neil but the best way through sydney now from Bris is straight down the pacific Hwy (M1) onto the new part of the M7 which bypass sydney all together. there is NO other shorter way trust me I've tried them all.Yes it has toll ways but who fuccken cares,it's worth it.

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