VICTORIANS!

[llama_au]

Not me, I'm in Bayswater North and drive a couple of sets of lights to work. This is mine:







/thread hijack

[Gir]

Photo's from the hard-tuned meet last weekend. Good to finally see some GTS's :P

[Ryan1JZ]

looking good Gir, you're still the only one who has picked their car up from melton toyota

[TUFSIG]

looking good next to my land whale gir ahaha

[Gir]

Originally Posted by Matthung

Hi rz86, are you an admin on th fb Page??

Probably should avoid the Facebook page, it's basically turned into the kind of page you'd expect from Commodore owners.

[blags]

The dude that had his car at a panel shop a few week ago, I wanted to ask what happened, but going from the fb page, I need not

[fuddbutter]

Originally Posted by Gir

Photo's from the hard-tuned meet last weekend. Good to finally see some GTS's :P

Holy HDR batman!
ease up on that detail slider sir!

[Gir]

Originally Posted by blags

The dude with the I heart Touge car was the guy that had his car at a panel shop a few week ago, I wanted to ask what happened, but going from the fb page, I need not

So I shouldn't take him up on his offer to race for slips? :P

Originally Posted by fuddbutter

Holy HDR batman!
ease up on that detail slider sir!

Na man, professional. (I did not take of shop those photos)

[RZ86]

Originally Posted by Gir

Probably should avoid the Facebook page, it's basically turned into the kind of page you'd expect from Commodore owners. You know you have a problem when the Managing Director of Import Monster is advocating hooning.

Ok mate it's not as bad as you are making it out to be. We are all a bunch of enthusiasts. Bad behaviour isn't tolerated at meets, but what members do outside of the meets is up to them. The Kinglake meet was not an organised 86/BRZ Club event, it was to join up with another club.

The group is full of very friendly members, and we welcome anyone who owns an 86/BRZ and wanting to join in on regular activities

[RZ86]

Originally Posted by blags

The dude with the I heart Touge car was the guy that had his car at a panel shop a few week ago, I wanted to ask what happened, but going from the fb page, I need not

What happened to his car was personal, and not at all as a result of any driving. He is a friend of mine.

[blags]

Originally Posted by RZ86

What happened to his car was personal, and not at all as a result of any driving. He is a friend of mine.

Well I didn't want to ask... I just made assumptions going from the dude posts lol.

[green_comet]

Oh man, I hate looking at all of the photos on here, wish Toyota would hurry up and make mine.

[Import Monster]

Originally Posted by Gir

Probably should avoid the Facebook page, it's basically turned into the kind of page you'd expect from Commodore owners. You know you have a problem when the Managing Director of Import Monster is advocating hooning.

I no longer have any idea what "hooning" actually means because it's been used by the media as a yardstick purely for idiotic behaviour on the roads. To me, the term "hoon" has always meant someone who is into cars, a legitimate enthusiast and it is the media who have recently stigmatised the term

I have used my "hoon" skills, which to me simply means the skills behind the wheel I have developed over many years of track days, skid pan days and more recently, drift days, along with the many defensive and advanced driver skills courses I have done (sought out and paid for by myself) in order to increase my skills and knowledge as a driver - to get me out of situations created by other road users. It's been the fact that I know what my car will do in a given situation that has given me the confidence to avoid or extricate myself from situations brought about by other people not paying attention or behaving downright dangerously!

Mate I drive a Q7 as a daily and as a tow car - how much hooning do you think I am going to do in that? I was merely pointing out that in a closed group, surely we don't have to pretend that we are all angels on the road at all times. I'd be amazed if you, or anyone, could stand up and say that you never do anything wrong, that you never speed or you never go through a corner faster than necessary. While I don't drive like an idiot on the road because I have too much respect for other road users to knowingly endanger them, I am not going to be a hypocrite and get on my high horse when people are talking about the way they drive their car on a hills run, when I myself like to go for a spirited drive.

These cars were built to go around corners, that's why I bought mine. I will do track time, skid pan time and no doubt I'll do the odd hills run - though I do these on my own, as I like to drive within my limits and not feel rushed or pressured by anyone around me - I'm sorry if you feel that I advocated idiotic behaviour, that wasn't my intent. I simply don't feel that we should all pretend to be angels when the reality is, that none of us are.

In all honesty, while excessive speeding isn't bright, I think the guy behind the wheel is generally concentrating at least - the real dangers I see are the people at the speed limit who are on facebook or sending an sms, not watching what's happening around them, blindly thinking because they're doing 5kmh under the limit, they are a safe driver!

Cheers

Aaron

[Gir]

And damage control is go!

Edit: Looks like I got kicked out of the group. That'll teach me to advocate safe driving!