SA Cruise - 5 Jan - meet a real live Victorian...

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:19 pm

Well maybe she will let me borrow my old FTO for the cruize lol

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:01 am

barfy wrote:Well maybe she will let me borrow my old FTO for the cruize lol

Nice theory, cept she drove your old FTO to victoria...

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:42 pm

Wow.

Good cruise. Good turn out. Had a ball in 1st gear up Corkscrew Rd. And finishing off at the beach gave the cruise a bit of everything. Twisty Hill rds, Long sweeping freeway (complete with tunnel), City driving, Coastal cruising, and Beach. And a Sausage sizzle for lunch, what more could you ask for on a hot day ? Might be a hard cruise to top for a while.

Anyway, here are a few snapshots I took...

Mt Lofty Carpark :

The Beach BBQ :

And the Beach car Lineup (after the Local Law's close inspection...) :

And thanx to the Participants of course :

Lookin forward to seeing your video footage Trav

StewGood · Post by **StewGood** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:20 pm

Yes.. awesome cruise indeed, defiantly have to do the cork screw thing again

- and make it apart of any cruise in that direction.. - thanks again for the bbq - thats thanks to steve and Lee (sorry about spelling if incorrect :S )

it was also nice to see almost everyone was able to make a appearance

Look foward to the next one..

thanks again ALL

SILVERFISH · Post by **SILVERFISH** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:24 pm

thanks guys & gals for putting up with the random victorian slowing you down

awesome day, best planned FTO cruise i've been on in ages.
*cough* only FTO cruise i've been on in ages!!! *cough*

a HUGE thanks to steve & lee for the drinks, snags and
for taking me along for the test run the other day too.
(mandy says thanks too)
if you guys are ever in vic make sure you call me

that goes for the rest of the SA crew

you guys rock

ah well... long drive back to melb in the morning...
i'll post my pics from the day when i get home.

take it easy... and thanks again
cheers,
gav

Mel_star_1 · Post by **Mel_star_1** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:51 pm

Yeah awesome cruise. Was great to have a good turnout to. Thanks steve and lee for the drinks and lunch.

Can't wait for the next cruise. Have a safe drive gav, great to meet you and mandy to, take care and hopefully catch ya another time when you back in the city of churches

mrx · Post by **mrx** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:04 pm

Yes, it was fun indeed to go for a run again with everyone. Unfortunately had prior arrangements for the afternoon, as it would have been great to catch up at lunch - and get to know those that I had not met before! Oh well, next time.

Will post a couple of photo's when I get around to it - nothing outstanding though.

Perhaps next cruise we head south, do the old faithful Harndorf - Strathalbyn - Victor run (with wine tasting at Currency Creek

) then back up through McLaren Vale to the city with maybe a beach stop for photo's and ice creams!!

Yes....try and keep everyone happy here

Excellent fun though - promise will hang around for longer next time!

SILVERFISH · Post by **SILVERFISH** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:21 pm

made it home safely folks... here are my happy snaps

(resized to a more forum friendly size,
if anyone wants a copy of the originals 2592x1944
just PM me and i'll e-mail them to you)

SILVERFISH · Post by **SILVERFISH** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:37 pm

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:29 pm

Glad to hear you got back home safely. Hope the drive back was more pleasant. And you had some good cricket to listen to along the way

Nice pics there too, and next time you want an FTO cruise, you know who to call...

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:31 pm

mrx wrote:Perhaps next cruise we head south, do the old faithful Harndorf - Strathalbyn - Victor run (with wine tasting at Currency Creek ) then back up through McLaren Vale to the city with maybe a beach stop for photo's and ice creams!!

Sounds like someone wants to organise the next one...

TCGPX · Post by **TCGPX** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:27 am

Hey all...

Great to see another good turnout for this one, even if most of the cars were silver

Most of my happy snaps were similar to what's been posted, so I won't duplicate.

I do have some video though

I'll make sure the memory card glitch is sorted by the next cruise.

Click here:
###VIDEO###

Pitty the camera didn't pick up the audio in the tunnel too well.
Sounded much better on the day.

Love the 5 silver FTO's surrounding that gold car. Wish someone got a photo of the look on their face

Thanks again to Steve and Lee for providing drinks, BBQ and shade, made for a great way to round out the day. Much appreciated.

Good to hear you had a safe trip back Gav and was great to meet you. Look forward to seeing you again next time your over this way.

StewGood · Post by **StewGood** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:39 am

lol - awsome vid travis

love the tunnel bit.. (makes car noises)
looks like a rain of silver cars coming down the road LOL!

il have to get a camera and get some footage so your car can finally be in it.

im off guys in about 10 min so all have fun and drive safely.
till next time

Cya

phantom · Post by **phantom** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:07 pm

hi all great pics and video, pitty we joined u guys later would love to have been in video cruising through the hills with u guys. (to break up the silver ) lol lol

any ways the bbq and the swim was fun. will make sure to be there on next cruise.

buy all.

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:00 pm

Yeah, good job as usual Trav. Special thanx to your Camera operator

I have a cunning plan for the future for video footage... just need some cash...

Post by **Supplanter** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:39 am

I'm jealous, Gav

TCGPX · Post by **TCGPX** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:51 pm

Supplanter wrote:I'm jealous, Gav

You coulda come too...

From the sound of it, there's plenty of victorians who would like to make the trip for a cruise

Yea, my "camera operator" did a pretty good job for a first attempt, hats off.
Now to sort out my memory card issues...

I'll have to fall in at the back of the group for longer on the next one to get some better footage of the group.

Sounds like Steve's planning "The Matrix" of cruise videos...

I'll help ya rob a bank mate

Sparhawk · Post by **Sparhawk** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:21 am

TCGPX wrote:Sounds like Steve's planning "The Matrix" of cruise videos...

I'll help ya rob a bank mate

Hehe

I've ordered some hardware. Hopefully will live up to the hype. Just need to wait for delivery from US, and see how well it works, and then Ill tell you all about it