I decided to make the journey to the mountain on Sunday to see the great race.

It wouldn't be a car event without a police sting operation and another fine for my resumé. I was on my fireblade with Andrea on the back enjoying a nice ride up Bells Line of rd. I was coming out of a 60 zone leaned over through a corner. I saw the 100 speed limit sign about 100m away so I fed on some throttle to get it up to 100. I look up and there's a highway patrol coming at me, he hits the lights so I pull up. I'm now pretty used to this situation so I was pretty relaxed and tried to play it nice and cool. The cop approaches me and lets me know that he just clocked me at 104 in a 60 zone. I explained that I came through the corner at a reasonable speed then saw the 100 sign and sped up, plus its a downhill run to the 100 sign. Luckily the cop was extremely reasonable and decided to let me off with a 15 and over (3pts, $250). I told him that I've been booked a few times recently and I know I've got to watch my speed more. He warned me that there was massive amounts of cops up all the way up to bathurst and to be extremely cautious. 

While stopped on the side of the road, all the cars that I'd overtaken since Richmond went past. I stopped in at Lithgow maccas and they must have all had the same idea. About 15 different people asked me "so what did they get u for?. 

That kind of took the fun out of the day, but atleast we made it up to the mountain. It seems that this year is was massively packed to the point where we hardly got a good look at the cars all day which was pretty dissapointing. I went up a few years back with my dad and I don't remember it being that bad. The best part was having a look in the pits and see all the awesome setups that they have. I hung around and saw a couple of pit stops take place and stopped to get a picture with the inforcer.

On the way back I've never seen more cops in my life, I got followed by a highway patrol all the way to the city limits of bathurst then between bathurst and the lower mountains I would have seen about 12-15 cop cars.

Will I be going up again next year? No.

Me & Russ

Mockup V8 Supercar at Lithgow Maccas

On Friday I got a voicemail from WSID letting me know that they're having a burnout comp on October 4th. Unfortunatley the wagon is still out of action so it'll be sitting this one out. I'll be there watching the carnage from the stands.

For details on the event see WSID's site.

 

The next Sydney Muscle Car Cruise is coming up next month, this time it's being held during the day which will mean that we can expect a huge turnout. I was hoping to tidy up the burnout wagon and take it out since it is registered afer all, but I don't know if we'll have it fixed up in under a month, so I'll have to settle for my commodore assuming that they except it. Here's the event details;

Sydney Muscle Car Cruise #4
Date: Sunday 13th July 2008
Meet: 9am at WSID

For full details check their site musclecarcruise.com and don't forget to pre-register if your planning on attending.

 

 

There's no better way to celebrate our Queen's birthday than to lay down a patch in her honor!

Location: WSID
When: 7th June 2008 (Saturday)
More Info: http://www.wsid.com.au/event.asp?ID=797 

 

We need to pull our fingers out and get the burnout car into this event. We need to change the diff and get some new themros onto it.

We went and checked out the latest Sydney Muscle Car Cruise which started in Parklea Markets and went to Liverpool Megacenter.

It was raining on and off the whole time, but it didn't stop hundreds of cars and spectators from turning up. It was very well organised and the police involved. This is the sort of thing that I've always dreamed of where if you do the right thing you wont get hassled.

I caught up with a few mates, had a feed, took a few pics and cruised home. It was a pretty good night despite the rain.

If you don't know about this event, it is now being held once every three months. More info can be found at - www.musclecarcruise.com 

Powercruise 12 is on at Eastern Creek this weekend! The bad news is it looks like it's going to suffer the same fate as Supernats and get bloody rained out.. I've got a couple of mates who have entered, one in a 355 stroker LH torana and another in a RB25 powered R31 skyline. I'm planning to get down there on Saturday. For more info check out powercruise.net

 

You don't get much more aussie than getting sunburnt watching Holden and Fords drag! So I thats what I did for my Australia Day. Here's a couple of pics that my girlfriend took in the pits.

I went down to Summernats on Friday to check it out. I never miss it, this is the 4th year in a row I've been now. Here's a few pics that I took.

ULEGAL Corolla (now with a blower in place of the snail)

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Blown ute with tripple carbies

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FX Drag Ute

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RHYNOS Burnout Torana

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Tuff Red Capri

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Flat Black '55 Chevy

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Desperate Moles

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Mark Dallaqua's new Escort (850BHP)

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Mark Arblaster's WAR440

As most of us suspected, Supernats was called off on Saturday. According to their website, it will now be held on the 16th of Demember, which is now a Sunday.

Since there was nothing to do on the weekend, it gave me and Dazza the chance to change the gearbox in my girlfriend's Swift. I'd never changed a gearbox on a front wheel drive before, but it turned out to be a pretty easy job.

This weekend Supernats is on! It's arguably my favourite car show of the year. Supernats was the first car show of it's type I ever went to, back when I was 18 or 19 and I have awesome memories of it. I wasn't all that impressed when the moved it back to Oran Park last year, I don't think it was up to the standard of the years before it — enterant and spectator numbers were very low and it was held on the same day as another huge event at WSID. I'm glad to see that they've taken it back to WSID this year.

This year they are holding a wheelstand comp, which is what I'm really looking forward to. They are very popular in the US, but I've never heard of a wheelstand comp in oz to date..

My mate Richie has entered his 10 second Torana and has promised me a ride in the super cruise.  Last time I spoke to Mark Dallacca he reckoned that he was going to debut his freshly rebuilt 850hp blown Ford Escort [formerly red with a tunnel rammed 351], which he's now set up as a drag car — still fully engineered and street registered of course ;)

It sounds like it's going to be a great day, the only problem is that rain has been forecasted for all of Saturday... Noooooooooooooo!!

Fingers crossed that the rain stays away. As long as it does, I'll be there and will hopefully have some good videos and photos to post up.