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[Shifty]

*yawns*

Who else thinks this was a stupid idea!? :P

1:18am.. argh....

[Nick]

This is no way to start a cruise.. What year is it?!

:D

[Shifty]

I'm not sure, but I think it's the 80's.

Blame Chipper! :D

Oh, and we're running late. Blame Rhys, he's not here yet...

[WattsyLX]

Bahhh.....big girls!! :p

This is the best time of day!!! Even if still half cut!! :D

[WattsyLX]

Geez....big turnout!! Didnt expect to see so many cars.

Bit quiet but....from my place we can usually hear some of the local cars returning from a Goldie run along the main road, especially the three 'Ford Crew' blokes that rumbled through about an hour before you guys did this morning. :)

Didnt hear you guys at all!!!

[JS]

Hey shifty, you are gay. No one likes you in brisbane because you aren't cool. and i know where you live......

hahaha just stuffin around. Did you ever complete the auto - manual conversion.

[NAliberty]

WAS GREAT THANKS CHIPPER!!! :)

already home, had no sleep last night and i;m still not tired!!!!!!!

[OVB471]

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME well done chipper for organising it and everyone else who turned up

[Shifty]

A great day had by all, good to catch up with a few people I haven't seen in a while/have never seen/see all the time.

Thanks to the guys who let my ~65kg increase their fuel consumption.

jsrc - Nah, I sold the manual conversion for the Supra and have since blown the engine again... so I'm in fix-and-sell mode! Going to build me a project car... :)

[OVB471]

sorry i just posted a topic in general about today then i read this one OPPS:rolleyes: :cool: :cool: :cool: :( :(

[a777]

Awesome Night/Day! ;) Well done Chipper and Daz! :)

Photos will be in this post in 20 minutes once it finishes uploading :)

Photos are heavily reduced in size! :p

Meeting at the Shell
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Arriving at Byron
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Chatting to some locals in the main carpark
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A very Dark Light house
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Progress
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Blurry people!
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[a777]

A lighter light house
http://www.fastrotor.com/byron/a777dsc08661s.jpg

Everyone waiting
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Pretty colours
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A coloured light house
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No Stopping!
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The Crack of Dawn!
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More Dawn
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Nice Rain Storm at Dawn
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[a777]

Even the dolphins were impressed
http://www.fastrotor.com/byron/a777dsc08740s.jpg

Sunrise
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Commodores
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A long line behind
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A long line ahead
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Dodge the Cow Shit
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Dodge the Cow!
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Break
http://www.fastrotor.com/byron/a777dsc08796s.jpg

The Shed
http://www.fastrotor.com/byron/a777dsc08800s.jpg

[a777]

And maybe even this one :p Post whore! :p

[ToyotaNut]

The question on everyones lips is: who got a pic of the crazy guy on the scooter??

This is mine - i had to teach shifty how to use my camera in the process so its not perfect.

http://www.norbie.net/rhys/cruise-10-2-02/DCP_0049.JPG

[Calais5ltr]

Great cruize, well done Chipper & Daz
for organising it.

[NAliberty]

Did anyone see the boots that guy on the scooter was wearing???
THEY WERE SOOOO COOL! :)

[WattsyLX]

Originally posted by ToyotaNut
The question on everyones lips is: who got a pic of the crazy guy on the scooter??

This is mine - i had to teach shifty how to use my camera in the process so its not perfect.




Hahahaha...that bloke is a legend....I was talking to him at the Railway Pub one night and he is actually quite sane!!! :p

He reckons he was a succesful professional (lawyer or something....cant remember) and one day he just got jack of it and moved to Byron and spends all day riding his unicycle around.

Sometimes he carries a tennis raquet around and wears a pair of flippers while riding!! :D :D hehe...we have all kinds in Byron!! :p


Did he blow his tooter for ya??

[NAliberty]

Of course he blew his tooter for us! :) :)

BTW - did anyone get a pic of my car, i want an avatar, and thought it might be the go.... If your not sure it was the bergundy liberty.

[TWC]

Yea,

Thanks guys for organising it - had an enjoyable morning once again.

Great to see the turnout from the Sydney crew (and we think we're tired). You guys are still mad!

Angus, the photos are becomming very arty.

OVB, enjoyed watching you thread the commodore through the twisties.

Green laser - got a question for you, can you send me a PM.

Again, thanks all.

Tim

[Norbie]

Great cruise, thanks to the organisers for, um, organising it. :) My Supra made it back in one piece and everything still works (well, apart from the aircon) so I'm calling it a success! Hell, even the French cars made it home without the use of a tow rope - you gotta be happy with that. ;)

[OVB471]

TWC yeah just wished i had better brakes in the misses car would have gone a bit quicker thru them (ovb loves cutting corners ) but i had to step on the brakes a bit as the old barge not the best handler and braker.

it was also good following the other commodores thru the S's and checking in the rear view mirror every corner to see ur car still there.Is that a factory colour on ur car????TWC

hope i slowed down enought going thru those loose surface areas not to throw any stones up ( i think i did anyway)

AND ALL I GOT TO SAY NEXT TIME WE HAVE A CRUISE WE WILL HAVE TO DO THAT CIRCUIT AGAIN THAT WAS AWESOME ESPECIALLY ON THE WAY DOWN THRU THE S's

[jimx6]

What an awesome day! Thanks must go to Chip and Daz :) Those maps were also a great idea.

I must say, i left Esk at 9:00 pm last night- drove all the way to Yatala- then after the cruise finished drove back to Ipswich and then back to Esk:rolleyes: . Dont know how many kays i did but im **uck'n buggered now.

My fav part was cruising through those twisty bits with the other purrring subies in hot persuit:D It was awesome! I think everyone had a smile on their dial:) Hopefully we go there again on another cruise!

Don't know what happened at the end, but everyone just seemed to go in all directions instead of cruising together to Boonah.

All in all a great day, but i enjoyed the second half a lot more- where there were some really good driving roads.

[OVB471]

Originally posted by a777
Dodge the Cow!
http://www.fastrotor.com/byron/a777dsc08790s.jpg



DID THAT COW HIT BOOST OR WHAT seemed one minute to be just infront of me next minute it was about 200m in front going back into the paddock or maybe he just dumped a load on the run and made him lighter:D :D :D :D

[AxGT]

How pissed off am i for not making it
GRRR
ill most definately be at the next event

[Coffin]

Chip & Daz Awesome cruise and awesome Idea, and good on ya to everyone who dragged their sorry asses out of bed (or refrained from going to bed) to make this cruise

I can say from being in Chips car most of the morning, looking behind to see 30+ cars following was an awesome sight.

Angus, as always nice pics, ... anyone else have any to post?

Thanks to Chip once again for letting me shotgun on the cruise (well most of it), Daz for letting me go in the MX5FM mobile, Pornstar for offering me a lift back to Bris after the Capri's problems, and Norbie for actually getting me home :)

Oh yer, many thanks goto Red Bull for keeping me awake, and all the comical releif on the UHF :)


Hope to have another cruise soon


Damo

[daz]

"Bananas, in Pyjamas.............."

[AutokaT]

Thanx for the babysit job daz.....made it home with a little hiccup and burp at the nerang-beudesert rd turn off..but it kept going thank god...
I just woke up after a little snooze and going to go over it to try and find the problem now...

sorry to be a drag...

[SOARER21]

http://www.toyotaturbo.com/images/byron/Picture_0280.jpg
http://www.toyotaturbo.com/images/byron/Picture_0284.jpg
http://www.toyotaturbo.com/images/byron/Picture_0287.jpg
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http://www.toyotaturbo.com/images/byron/Picture_0303.jpg
http://www.toyotaturbo.com/images/byron/Picture_0305.jpg

PS: if anybody wants some of these pics in full size send me a mail to soarer21@optushome.com.au and tell me what size ya want (std is 1800x1200).

[GSR Dave]

awesome pics!!!

i wish i was there...dam!!!

maybe next time then :)

[MotoX]

ddam wish i could have made it, lotsa pictures LOL

[Turbo4WD]

Was a great cruise. I was actualy quite surprised to see the turnout and everyone was well behaved ;)

Anyway thanks go to chip and daz. While I had concerns initialy about how far it was it seamed a lot quicker going down there than what I thought and the cruise back was fantastic. I especialy liked the fact we basicaly had the roads to ourselves without many anoying cars slowing us down.

Oh and speaking of that I was amazed at how polite the "cockroaches" were in the way they would just pull over to the side and let us all through. On most of our other cruises in qld most people would not move over at all and sometimes they would even deliberatly try and stop us overtaking!!

It was also amusing to see the looks on the faces of the old town locals as they would just stare at all these "sports" cars going past :) The lady in the house where we stopped thought it was one of thoes car rallies that they have on TV sometimes :)

[Nick]

Shifty at about 1:20am :D
http://www.performanceforums.com/~nickc/images/general/Bryon_Cruise/shifty_justawake.jpg

We are on our way! Warp 9!
http://www.performanceforums.com/~nickc/images/general/Bryon_Cruise/fasthiway.jpg

Very Nice.
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Everyone just hanging out waiting for the Sun.
http://www.performanceforums.com/~nickc/images/general/Bryon_Cruise/pfcrowd.jpg

It's here! It's here!
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Little Animation I threw togeather.
http://www.performanceforums.com/~nickc/images/general/Bryon_Cruise/dawnanim1.gif

[mAJORD]

Hi . dont think ive ever replyed to these forums before, only browsed them. but what a great cruise. i had a blast

got a couple of pics here, of the group at our stop at the park not sure if thise is gonna work....

Ps im the one with the burgandy old-skool subie (middle)



doh that didnt work to well.. guess i gotta use html

[OVB471]

hey did anyone get a pic of the STREET MACHINE/AUTO SALOON COMMODORE sitting on the side of the road b4 mt warning?u know the one with the flame job???????:D :D IT looked like a weapon

[daz]

Yeah all us UHF users thought that was your project car OVB! :D

[Hoon Australia]

When's the next one?!?!?!!?!

[Coffin]

That commie was a beast! lol

I loved that extra litle touch of the rounded flame over the filler cap too!


Damo

[OVB471]

Originally posted by daz
Yeah all us UHF users thought that was your project car OVB! :D


hahahha ok u have found out my secret that is the colours im painting my new calais hahaha

now all i have to do is wait for super cheap to open tomorrow and go and get some pressure packs and masking tape :D :D

[Chris Rogers]

would anyone believe I just got up from yesterday at 320pm???

chip & Daz
top effort - I had fun. angus & co great pix and thanks for teh comc relief on the radio most of us needed it to stay awake.

miranda/Fook,
thanks for your help as well (you didn't have to take me home after the motor show

norbie ,

NA liberty,

top effort for the Soob guys . liked the old MY coupe btw.

I'll be over tonight to collect the radio.

only bummer of the whole thing were the two cars that were acting sillly. one doinga 6 car pass (white pulsar sss- rathdowney) whilst we were getting organised via radio. the red ma60 supra for trying and denying to race us outside of tweed heads. if you guys are reading this - you are not welcome on these runs.

[Chipper]

...for making this a totally enjoyable day.

Told you lot the twisties were fun :)

A777, nice photos as usual mate :)

Thanks must also go to Daz, plus everyone else who kept it clean and fun.

IMOA and passenger, plus the other dude from Sydney (sorry, didnt get yr names), cheers for making the effort to come up.

See you on the next one :)

Chipper

[SOARER21]

I dont suppose anyone got some action shots of my soarer did they?

[Xsquisite]

Aww..... {SOB}

I can't believe we missed it! :( It looked awesome!

Any chance of another Byron Bay Dawn cruise some time in the future??? :confused:

[Synchro-mesh]

Yep. I definitely had a great time. I thought the cruise was incident-free - but obviously there had to be one. Luckily nothing particularly major - I hope!

Nice piccies Angus and Soarer 21.

I think I have one or two on my analog.. but doubt they'd be any good. Havta wait for demuire to edit the ones i took on his camera.

Nice to see the familiar faces and get to know them a little better!

Definitely had fun on the twisties - sorry that i took control demuire - next time I spose.

I reckon go-karting or something is next on the agenda too!

[Mcleod]

I most definately had a great time..

Unfortunately after breakfast at Byron, I suddenly got quite sick.. and still had to drive.. I couldn't keep the food down and ended up getting left behind at the car park at Byron.. I had to refer to the pace notes (thanks soarer21 for printing them for me) and ended up catching up to you all!

And then I was further sick at every stop we had from that point on :confused:

BUT, I still had a great time, regardless of how my body was messing me around.

I took PLENTY of pics.. and put them all up at my web site..

http://www.boostcruising.com/journal/entries/10022002.asp

I haven't been on a decent cruise like that in quite a while, many thanks to those that organised it, and to all of the others that turned up, lots of car's in great numbers made for a good cruise.

-

[demuire]

Syncro: Hey it was your car, you drive it :) Next time I'll bring my car and I can drive :)

[daz]

Mcleod,

I'm sorry we left you behind buddy. Depending on when you actually downloaded and printed out the pacenotes, my phone number was listed there. Otherwise, it's another good thing about UHF's.

[Chipper]

Ditto, sorry bout that man :)

Top story by the way :)

Chip

[Ev]

Yeah the Cruise was well planned and very enjoyable.

Next time I will rember to lighten up the koni's in the VL as my back is stuffed as no-one in NSW roadworks knows how to use a grader when preparing some of those roads :p

Congrats to Chip and Daz for organising it, and to everyone who attended to make it the excellent cruise it was.

[OVB471]

mcleod good to see u get some photos of my misses car in some of those shot thanks

as for the NSW roads i have to say they would have to be some of the worse roads ive been on especially the ones out of byron bay they were shithouse

yes and im suprised OVH666 made it the whole trip without a hassle phew

hopefully next one i will be in one of the calais v8

[SOARER21]

yeah some of those roads werent real flash. Im just glad my wheels are still round and no flat spots on them.

[IMOA]

Great cruise all, I was well pleased I made the trip. Big thanks to chip a daz for all the organisation. To have it go so smoothly with so many people speaks volumes for the effort you guys put in.

And if you guys think those were bad nsw roads just wait till you come down to sydney and we take you through the nasho.

Favourite moment had to be the two poor plods who were 1 minute too early. Coming round that corner and seeing them getting out of the car after just pulling over a pretend 4WD probably for a pissy little offense then looking up and watching 35 modified cars cruise by. Just priceless.

[Paydirt]

Seems like everyone had a good time, only wish I wasn't so tired that I could have kept going on the rest of the cruise. I enjoyed the trip to Byron though. Well done on the organisation boys.:)

[XoDuS]

in reply to the dood having a whinge about the supra
apparently racing on the highway down there on the highway

we were sitting just up behind him

most of the cars were doing 100 , he did like 110/120
and got in the right lane... Remember there was a truck Just up ahead.??
yahuh. he was passing the truck that was about to slow everyone down.
then all of u guys followed
u must have been racing too then hey?

i would hardly call accellerating from 100 to 120 to pass a truck "racing"

jeez man.

bah

[XoDuS]

yes old mate i got some pics of the liberty

[Coffin]

Xodus: I think there was a little more than just that, if it was just someone overtaking another vehicle on the road I'm sure we can all live with that, but when there are a few ppl on the UHF saying that this guy is trying to race, or trying to get other participants in the cruise to race its a very different story.

Damo

[OVB471]

I THINK HE was talking about the FLY BY just after we left the park after the stop and the lookout when 2 cars did a fly by past the whole group???????

[Synchro-mesh]

Well I was near the front from Yatala until we picked up the goldies. Then through the range the pulsar and the supra suddnely picked up speed and I went from being 2nd to 8th very quickly. Not sure who the others were but the pulsar and supra were definitley up there first followed by a few others. I was surprised that they didn't pass Chip.

Not sure on the whole story.,. but that's my story on it.

[Chipper]

They did pass me near the Byron turn off, no biggie, but when we left the park, it was requested by 2way that I take the lead again as I knew the route, thats why I overtook the few cars in front, again, no biggie, but the dude in the Pulsar didnt win any friends by doing the same thing.

If its a group outing, you play by the group rules, if you dont like the rules, go out with your own mates and do whatever you like.

Chip

[demuire]

I suppose it didn't help that the guy in the pulsar didn't have a UHF. Then again, half the rest of us didn't either but we played by the rules nonetheless so I don't think that's an excuse.

[NAliberty]

Thanks for the pic XoDuS. I will whack it in my avatar later today.
You had to get the side with the replacement front quarter panel in a slightly different shade didn't ya! :)

Have just lifted my engine for the thrid time in tha last 3 days to tighten some sump bolts again. Is just a tiny little drip, and it's really $hitting me! :(

Thanks again chip, am keen for the next one!

[WattsyLX]

Well next time there is a Byron Bay cruise im definently joining in from the Bay and tagging along....the Torana will definently be on the road!!! (take it off the road for a week and couldnt get it back together in time....what a weekend to do it!! :( )
We walked up to the lighthouse via Wategoes but were back home before the sun was even up....some bloke was whinging about all the people up there waking up the tourists who were staying in the cottages up there....****en sooks!

Looked like an awesome run up through Lismore and Kyogle back over the hills to Beaudesert.

Definently coming next time!

[Glenno]

Anyone get any good pics of my white Liberty?

[XoDuS]

Indeed i did get a pic champ

[XoDuS]

Heh Found another one for ya

Sorry didnt get any action shots

[XoDuS]

Sorry for the other pic that had the replacement guard

so here is another for you

[OVB471]

any pics of the vh buy any chance with the 18's on it??

[Mcleod]

OVB, this is a small pic of the VH, taken at beaudesert.. basically its just cut out of the group shot from the hi-res pic.

http://www.boostcruising.com/images/ovh666.jpg

It's the best I could find in my pics, I think the VH was on its lonesome at most break stops and I tried to get as many car's in each pic since I was running out of photo's ;)

[demuire]

http://public.fotki.com/fookseung/automotive-1/cruise_to_byron_bay/

http://images.fotki.com/v3/photos/1/12090/88592/02100060-vi.jpg
Sunrise

http://images.fotki.com/v3/photos/1/12090/88592/02100053-vi.jpg
Byron Bay Lighthouse

http://images.fotki.com/v3/photos/1/12090/88592/02100200-vi.jpg
Ev, Miranda and the VL

http://images.fotki.com/v3/photos/1/12090/88592/02100203-vi.jpg
Big mountain

http://images.fotki.com/v3/photos/1/12090/88592/02100210-vi.jpg
Spot the cable ties

[OVB471]

yep thats fine thanks for the effort besides it was only worth a pic on one side of the car due to the big dent on the other side(drivers door)

[Chipper]

Nice photos Fook......very impressed :)

[Glenno]

Thanks for the pics

[demuire]

Chipper: Believe me, I was having a BAD day as far as taking pics goes, I wasn't really in the mood, and was just doing it cause I knew I'd regret it if I didn't. And to show the ones up were the only ones worth seeing of the 100+ I took :(

Oh well, at least some of them came out shweeet :p

[Synchro-mesh]

Yeah the ones i took were sweet.

Well, we took probably about 200+ and deleted about 100 of them as the day went one to clear up some memory. Between all teh camera's i think there were quite a few good piccies.

[XoDuS]

here ya go

[OVB471]

thanks xodus for that pic just wanted to see what the 18's look like in a pic on the car