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[orangeLJ]

Had a great day on sunday! and a great night on sunday night (getting home at about 12am after leaving home at 6.30am!)

In my opinion, Toranafest isnt about showy bullshit, its not about absolute ball tearing million dollar cars with overdone paintwork.

Its about REAL cars, the ones we can expect to see out and about, cruising around and getting used for what they are meant for.

If you want "top notch" then go to summernats or meguirs motor ex, if you want to see more toranas in one place then ever before, come to toranfest.

I find the best part of the show is the social aspect. I met 10+ members from GMH yesterday, and a few other random people who just came to say hello and chat about my LJ.

Good to finally put faces to names on a screen.

ohh and Judd! i snuck a look at the dash mate, good job! I dont think I cand o the same thing though, due to the big rounded fronts on the gauges I have.

Though Ive now hatched a plan to fix my second dash attempt.


And my only 2 bitchs for the day-

people (spectators) with kids, I know it can be hard to watch your kids 100% of the time, but when your kid is running around touching every ones cars with an ice cream in his other hand, or runnin their fingers down the side of someones car, Im pretty sure thats when you do something about it? (hey im no father yet, but thats the way I look at it)

I saw one child, about 4 or 5, walking along with his parents (after presentation) and he ran up to my uncles GTR, and his parents said dont touch that, so the kid, while looking straight at his parents, slapped the front nosecone and ran his hand along the front, the parents did nothing, he then ran to the next car, my old mans juniper XU-1, they said "dont touch" and what did he do? the same thing again. I was standing about 50m away at my car, and yelled at the kid not to touch the cars, to filthy looks from his parents...


The second one is about the drop in awards categories. There were no best XU-1 restored or anything this year. I know there is always bitching about it, maybe thats why they were dropped?

on the subject of awards-
I had a forum member tell me what the "judges" said to him while judging his car (which did quite well) and to be honest, It made me laugh at the things they think are "important" in judging criteria... makes you wonder if the old entrant judging should be brought back into contention (half decided by the entrants, half by the judges?)

I wont say what was said to me, or to this person (unless they choose to mention anything) but its laughable.

As a final note-

I now have a healthy respect for victorian torana lovers.

Met Matt (MRLXSS) and his partner Maddy yesterday for the first time.
Karlie and I hung out with them after the day was all done and dusted (and didnt get home until midnight)

Matt and I hit up the quadstacks after a few beers, lets just say they are nice going down after some beers, but coming through in the morning is horrible! haha.

Edited by orangeLJ, 22 September 2008 - 11:00 AM.

[ido09s]

My Torrie is pretty much a daily driver and there is nothing wrong with them, its just not what i was expecting thats all. My apologies to anyone i may have offended.

[GTR469]

Cruising home with Monza1,Hatchblack, V6hatch and HRV74 in "2TOUGH" we came across a chrysler with the no. plates "2tuf" who got a bit racy when he spotted "2TOUGH"

[GTR469]

[orangeLJ]

haha, Leakey you should have seen me yesterday arvo at matt and maddy's motel!

every time I looked in the mirror my face was getting closer and closer to the colour of my Tshirt! (red/salmon?)

Was a bit sore last night, but today all is well (and sunny marks are there too!)

[RIM-010]

I think rodomo has the 'Longest in Planning Award' in the bag

Looks like it was another great day/weekend. With a bit of luck, I'll be there next year Can't wait.

Tim

[A9X]

Glad you liked it mate.

Welby

[lxsstorana]

Glad you enjoyed the day Leakey, happy to have some company and catch up.

Like so many people have said already, congratulations to Mick and all the guys & gals from the Hunter Valley Torana Club for organising the biggest and best torana show in Australia.

If you didn't enjoy the day you'd be a hard person to please.

Anyway, I can't believe no one has mentioned that a certain member from Cootamundra who has a beautiful SS complete with hatch hutch scored big time on the day (twice!)

He's probably travelling home as we speak and will let him reveal all.

Great to catch up with many forum members and put a face to the name.

See you again next year,

Mick.

[GTR469]

[lcgtr1970]

just wondering who owns the yellow lc gtr, GTR-38L. i saw it in wagga a few months back and a mate saw it and thought it was me (before it was painted).

[Toranavista]

barry is that a phone in your pocket or were you just happy?

I believe Barry had just picked up a set of NOS SS hubcaps