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[rexy]

Thursday.

 

The once quiet day of setting up.

 

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Not anymore cock! (I still remember the first time I was given this greeting of respect from an older Aussie bloke…..)

 

Entrants sold out sometime mid year and whole event spectator passes all gone too.

 

Plenty of hard core torries.

 

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Blowers everywhere.

 

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Insane race cars cruising the loop.

 

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I felt energised and reborn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[rexy]

The smell of methanol is thick in the air.

 

No more so than in the dyno hall where it was nice to see one of the hairdresser model toranas put up some good numbers.

 

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Thank god that boat anchor six is long gone 😂

Not even the mythical 18 port double JZED head could make this power.

 

Adam ran his tidy blue dunnydore on meth in otherwise full street trim.

 

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And it did pretty good.

 

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Some 6 second race car goodness.

 

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And a pretty good effort at crossing symmetry with awesome bonnet flames.

 

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[rexy]

Best Torana colour ever. 

 

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Beaut ute. Pity it stalled at the crossing and we had to push it off to the side 😂

 

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Randoms

 

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[rexy]

My favourite so far.

 

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Strong contender for best looking local car of all time.

 

Plenty of torries of course.

 

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And shitbox fords.

 

Rad rides galore. This F Truck has Turbo Barra, ABS, full late interior with working airbags etc

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[rexy]

Sometimes the smoke is slow to exit….

 

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And keeps on smoking.

 

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Plenty of patina, including fakies.

 

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And the odd WTF is that moment.

 

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And there is gonna be at least one never before seen moment tomorrow.

 

I cant wait!

 

 

 

 

[Shiney005]

LS3 in the 1623HP VK?

[rexy]

Its a custom 420 ish cube LS style all aftermarket build.

Former winner of drag week.

[rexy]

Trends are funny.

 

For some reason white is back.

 

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These cars look good but would all look even better with almost any other colour. 

[rexy]

A momentous thing happened today.

 

Back a few years they ran a dyno exhibition challenge between a pro radial turbo car and a doorslammer. The cars were progressively turned up over the weekend and both ended up around the 3000hp at the hubs with the win to the turbo car.

 

Spectacular event with the doorslammer shaking the dyno tin shed to bits and the turbo car breathing big bits of fire.

At the time I thought this was never going to be topped as a spectacle. Well maybe if they somehow found a top fuel car to run.

 

 

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And today they did!

 

Did a startup on alcohol which when you are mere meters from the car is spectacular. I put myself and the big kids in the line of the exhaust and the raw alcohol out the pipes brought tears to the eyes. Deafened by the throttle blats its an amazing experience.

 

Loved it so much we went back for the second startup at 5pm.

 

[rexy]

When we turned up in the morning the signs said all friday/saturday passes were sold out as well as all saturday passes.

It showed in the big crowd.

 

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Burnouts are full on.

 

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Its like the fog closing over…

 

Skills are top notch with most drivers managing to torn long cars around with ease in the narrow entrance and exit zones. The build quality is now very very good with mechanical failures uncommon. The cooler weather probably helped too.

[rexy]

Top 60 hall wasn’t the same this year without Heath.

 

This was eye catching.

 

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A shadow model W427 2 door. 

Created out of a Maloo ute and a sedan back half this must have been a very expensive build.

 

Which makes me very sad to say it was one of the worst cars i have ever seen in that hall. Panel gaps were atrocious.

 

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Back of door to B pillar gap is a triangle.

 

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And on the other side its comically wide.

 

 

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Boot gaps are craptacularly uneven.

 

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Sill panel falling off.

 

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And the taillight gaps were full 1970 Kwality.

 

 

 

 

 

[rexy]

Front door gaps just as bad.

 

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Early girl commodores are everywhere.

 

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Lots of blue meanies

 

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And the odd torana

 

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This one is very odd. It also had a very bad sounding metal squeal when they started it up and headed off to do a lap.

 

If only I had won that magazine comp all those years ago.

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[rexy]

Plenty of nice land yachts about.

 

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Toranas seem to be slowly thinning.

 

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Nice to see the traditional gold centres back.

 

 

The trend of active wear as daily wear will hopefully come to an end…soon.

 

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The lads aren’t covering themselves in glory either.

 

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[rexy]

Older build with scoop glassed to bonnet. Better look than the bolts I reckon.

 

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Yes please.

 

Is there a kinder term for this than still fugly?

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I wonder what metric their long term sponsor uses to assess value for money?

 

 

For me this is the best of the top 60 hall and should win best judged.

 

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[rexy]

You forget how enormous these things are until you get up close.

 

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[RallyRed]

That blue LX with the Hotwires gets my vote.  

Not necessary to have the perfect underside like it has IMHO, but tough as, regardless.

[yel327]

That '56 Belair is gorgeous.

[skap]

Love the annual run down Rexy, awesome... 

 

btw.  White never went out !!

[rexy]

This is one of three Lambos I have seen so far.

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it has some unexpected side badging.

 

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Cant say much nice about its green friend.

 

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[RallyRed]

Amazing how they can keep the bottom end in one piece, billet block, 11000rpm....just amazing

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[skap]

See the video of the kiwi Bruzzy security contingent coward punching annoying punters? Lol

[RallyRed]

Linky?

[Ice]

See the video of the kiwi Bruzzy security contingent coward punching annoying punters? Lol

Family event what a joke 

[Bruiser]

When Summernats goes all ev it will be more family friendly

[Redslur]

We are going to lose Summernats soon with these dickhead sideline wankers causing so much trouble. I don't blame the security guards flogging a few of them...they will get into some serious trouble though as one of them in particular thought he had a right to hit anyone.