VIC Inaugural Cruise 22 June 2008

GTlegs · Post by **GTlegs** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:54 pm

One of the tiny coolant hoses around the manifold has burst - bugger!!!!! Murphys Law I guess.

If I dont fix it in time, I may have to whore with someone from Bunnings

WILL PAY FOR PETROL if I have to whore with someone.

Sorry guys

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:03 pm

How many have we roughly at the moment?

Bennie

GTlegs · Post by **GTlegs** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:32 pm

El_Freddo wrote:How many have we roughly at the moment?

Bennie

Not quite sure, but I think around 5 to 10. Bear in mind that some people live along the route, so may join us along the way.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:46 pm

GTlegs wrote:Not quite sure, but I think around 5 to 10. Bear in mind that some people live along the route, so may join us along the way.

Cool cool. I'll probabily be cruising in Sunnie as my last (very small) pay cheque has pretty much gone into my fuel tank already...

Will see you there.

Bennie

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:05 am

We'll see you all there... 20 minutes til launch from ground zero (benders).

I didn't sleep very well last night due to anticipation

Bennie!

schultzie · Post by **schultzie** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:01 pm

How did you guys go? have a good day?

GTlegs · Post by **GTlegs** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:25 pm

The cruise was great. It rained all the way (and stopped when we had the stage 2 stop!), but nothing stops Subarus!

Nice to meet you all in person!

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:19 pm

We got home about 45 minutes ago - thanks Gee!

GT - fuel stopped my car, ruby scoo, from making an appearance. Sunnie made his debut so it was all good.

It was a great day and good to meet some of the faces behind the user names

Sunnie is needing a new rear muffler more so now than before the cruise

and we used near a whole tank of fuel looking at the guage, pretty happy with that.

I got a couple of photos, not as many as usual namely due to the amount of rain and wet weather in general. I hope to have them up tomorrow some time, my computer has crapped out on "virtual memory" so i'll buz up to uni and use the macs up there... Here's a teaser for now

Til then, have fun

Cheers

Bennie

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:04 pm

Well, good ol' Victoria put on its best weather for us: Drizzle/rain pretty much the whole day except a little bit in the car park.

My day started out in benders, bathed in sunshine, saying bye to ruby scoo who was left behind due to fuel prices, wrong week to be paid and the distance to be travelled. We took Sunnie the brumby for his debut

The ride down was good, our little tom tom came good with directions that were fast and easy to understand.

The members that made the cruise - Cynical, Dfyol, Heath, GTlegs (organiser), Davosubi, Bratgeebah and myself. Schultzie made a start of cruise appearance, was great to meet you mate

As you can see the weather was fantastic - we didn't get to see any views from the top of Mt Dandengong...

Gee cruising behind:

First impromptute stop - snapped up the "teaser" pic in the previous post:

Then off to those arches for the end of stage one, a few different pics of the cars, member's in dissarray:

and some sort of organisation:

From here we left on the second leg of the cruise, slowly dropping people from the cruise as we neared their place.

Overall, for me, it was a great day, finally meeting more vic members - I'd only breifly met GTlegs last year. I've met more WA members than vic members... crazy.

It was great to be cruisin again too. There's something about a bunch of subaru's driving around aimlessly or for 4wd'n that you can't get anywhere else.

Now my plans for lift, EJ etc etc have new life to them

but they still have to wait.

I'd like to thank GTlegs for getting the cruise organised and deciding on a route; Thanks to Gee for your family's hospitality. Thanks also goes out to the members who could make the cruise - it was a pleasure to meet you all!

I'm looking forward to the next meet.

Cheers

Bennie

BrennyV · Post by **BrennyV** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:00 pm

great pix, looks like a good little mix of cars :P

Bratgeebah · Post by **Bratgeebah** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:43 pm

Great photo's Bennie, they came out very well.
It was a great cruise and fun meeting everyone. We should do it again sometime.
Thanks for organising it GtLegs. Thanks for bringing a camera Bennie.
Thanks to everyone who turned up and made it worthwhile.
Gee.

Bratgeebah · Post by **Bratgeebah** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:47 pm

Everytime I look at Heaths sedan I want to buy a lift kit for the Liberty................................Dammitt......

schultzie · Post by **schultzie** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:50 pm

hahahah, it did look good.... i agree the lib should have a 2" lift

Bratgeebah · Post by **Bratgeebah** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:58 pm

It looks so low in the photo's.
Hey Shultzie what happened to that Targa Brumby you had? Did you get it from Jono or he from you? Who has it now?

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:08 pm

Bratgeebah wrote:It looks so low in the photo's.
Hey Shultzie what happened to that Targa Brumby you had? Did you get it from Jono or he from you? Who has it now?

Yeah, I'm after one of these in the next couple of years, unless I can get a shell with glass for a good price at the right time...

Your lib does look low in the pics Gee, but that's because you can't see the size of the rubber your trying to hide in there.

So, when's fuel meant to drop again and which weekend is closest to that?

No worries about the camera - I did photojournalism at uni, Love taking images to document events, particularly when its something I'm really into

Cheers

Bennie

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:12 pm

Bratgeebah wrote:We should do it again sometime.

We could get shirts made up and "gate crash" the ozliberty dinner that we've been invited too... just for shits and giggles.

Bennie

Bratgeebah · Post by **Bratgeebah** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:04 pm

Heaths sedan is on roids. I have height envy.
I think I have prior engagement on oz liberty night.
If you want to stay in Melb. for it though Benny you know where we are.
Gee

heath · Post by **heath** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 8:36 pm

was a good trip and good to meet every one. and my subys not on steroids yet just waitin on some funds then she will be a beast. thanks for the complements though

GTlegs · Post by **GTlegs** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:26 am

heath wrote:was a good trip and good to meet every one. and my subys not on steroids yet just waitin on some funds then she will be a beast. thanks for the complements though

Yep, that lift is superb.

heath · Post by **heath** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:29 pm

i built and installed the lift kit myself. i don't mind helping others with ones for there cars. or just give info drop me a line if you need my help an well work something out

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