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[Potta]

No luck putting up any more pics, will try again tomorrow.

[CI 0308]

Awesome day followed up with a special look at Andy's collection

 

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[Shiney005]

Please don't put up photos of Andy's shed if there is any chance of them being marked with a time and date stamp. i.e. nearly all phones will tag the photo with a GPS position.  He asked for this specifically. I will put some up tomorrow morning.

[CI 0308]

Please don't put up photos of Andy's shed if there is any chance of them being marked with a time and date stamp. i.e. nearly all phones will tag the photo with a GPS position.  He asked for this specifically. I will put some up tomorrow morning.

Good point. Done

[dattoman]

Was an awesome day... well done to Craig and all involved in organising

And thankyou to those with special cars that brought them out for the day

 

Sadly I had no personal wheels to drive... but by luck I was able to catch a seat in both the Barbados cars on the day in this pic

Big thanks to Derrick and RIcho for the ride alongs

 

[CYCO355]

Had a good day, Mick ( AGGETTS ) let me drive the first stint ( Northam to Elcabs ) in his uc.
Good day put on by the torana club, well done.
Had a good chat to Dave ( a9x868 ) cheers.


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[hanra]

How come there are so many A9X's in Perth?

[Ice]

How come there are so many A9X's in Perth?

All the good stuff is ✌️

[77lx308]

We had 76 Torana's at today's event. 60 odd on Saturday - and they were not all the same cars either! It was a fantastic weekend and thanks to all who attended. That freeway shot is one in a million. Craig did a superb job organising Saturday. The whole weekend was better than we could have hoped. Even the weather cooperated.

 

There is a small video of the start of today's event here:

https://www.facebook... car club of wa

 

Heaps of photos out there but cannot load any ATM. Am sure other folks will be loading them as they arrive.

 

 

[CI 0308]

And was great to chat to Lewis Brock and hear him talk.

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[CI 0308]

The Brock memorial was struggling to cope.

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[Holdenbn74]

Agreed it was an awesome weekend 👍😀

[CYCO355]

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[Potta]

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First time I've seen Marty's car since it was finished and it is gorgeous.

Paint is outstanding, and not just the main colour. I couldn't get over the Matt Black, so good...

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DTRAIN's Barbados L34? (can't remember, its a square one lol ) won the club choice award, well deserved, and none of his wheels fell off all weekend

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[Potta]

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[Shiney005]

I agree with your comment on Marty's car Craig. It was stunning. That last photo you took was a pearler too!! Do you know if the guy with the Supermint A9X hatch was a forum member?

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[Ice]

Great to see so many Torana out on the weekend
yes Martys car is Outstanding
good to catch up with some forum members to even you Datto ✌️

[Shiney005]

Where were you on Sunday Gene?

I am just sorting through photos and drone footage now so I'll get more pics up tomorrow morning.

[Ice]

I only went down to Tomato Lake

[Potta]

I agree with your comment on Marty's car Craig. It was stunning. That last photo you took was a pearler too!! Do you know if the guy with the Supermint A9X hatch was a forum member?

 

Thanks Laurie, no idea who owns the Supermint A9X. That is the metallic green one yeah?

[Shiney005]

This is the one I was thinking of, but it actually wasn't there. Someone else was asking who owned it and I was assuming he saw it at the show.

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[Shiney005]

I'd like to start off by thanking Craig and Dave for all the work they put into Saturday and Mike (Combined Torana Car Club) for Sunday. It was a weekend I'll never forget. As Potta said to me on Sunday, If we can't have Toranafest, we'll have Toranawest.

Also a big thank you to Janelle Zandvliet from J Zap photography for the stunning photos taken over the freeway and up at the Zig Zag. If anyone would like high res images from the day you can contact them on their Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/JZapix/

 

For me it was a mix of highs and lows, with my Torana suffering from a buggered rope seal I couldn't risk taking it in the cruise, so I used the weekend as a way to get my first 1000 kays up on the new Commodore so I could get its first oil change out of the way. Two things I learned were that chasing Toranas around for a weekend is not conducive to an easy running in period, and that the tight twisty roads heading up to Toodyay are a Mecca for road bike riders, one of which decided to run into the side of me whilst he was changing lanes without looking. He was lucky he wasn't killed, or at least disabled because my back wheel took out both his and his pillion's footpegs. After hitting my 700 Km old car, he was lucky I didn't kill him myself. Of course he had no insurance and I'm looking at new front and rear doors, side skirt, wheel and tyre, and some work to the rear quarter. 

 

Anyway, back to the good stuff..................SATURDAY.

I got to the meeting point at 7.00am to find Craig and a dozen or so Toranas already there for an 8.30 start. Talk about keen.

 

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Potta wasn't going on the cruise until Sunday but he turned up for a squiz anyway.

 

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Drivers meeting.

 

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A lonely ho.   This was the giveaway car from Unique Cars Magazine a few years ago.

 

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Good plates on the Brock replica, and Sandy's (Aquarius?) hatchback looked awesome.

 

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Bernie's A9X

 

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Many more pics to come over the next hour or so.

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[Shiney005]

This is after the freeway photo, heading off the Roe Highway onto Kenwick Link.

 

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My first stop was halfway up the Brookton Highway hill. I couldn't believe just how long I was standing there taking photos of Toranas. I also took video wherever I stopped and will try and work out how to make a utube movie out of it all over the next couple of days.

 

Eyepeeler. The leader of the pack.

 

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I don't know who these guys were, but I followed them to the start point after I asked for directions at a set of lights back near the freeway. I think they could sense that I was in an unfamiliar environment. 

 

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This bloke drove down from Carnarvon!!

 

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This Orchid Metalic 5000 was sensational. Behind that is D.Train's SL/R with Datto riding shotgun.

 

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[Shiney005]

The targa car had the loudest gearbox I've ever heard in a street car. Straight cut geared dog box.

 

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Hmmm. Looks like a ring in in the middle there.

 

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I used to have an SL/R exactly the same as this one in the late 80s.

 

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Tassie plates?

 

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[Shiney005]

Angelo's SL/R 5000

 

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These legends drove down from their farm near Geraldton. Dad bought it from Sun City Budget Cars and used it for the family transport for many years. Not long ago his young bloke sent him on a holiday and when he came back it was restored back to brand new.

 

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This one was unrestored, but was heading to the panel beaters this week for a resto.

 

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At the Gull Roadhouse.

 

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Back on the road again. Tim's A9X.

 

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