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Aug 23, 2012 17:35:33 GMT
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Wotcher all. I finally manged to get my pics beaten into some kind of shape so I thought I'd best put them up here for anyone who's interested. If you're not just shuffle out the back without making too much noise and let me down gently, yeah? ;D I've just kinda put a bit of everything up so I apologise if there are some which duplicate a lot of what's already been put up, but hey, this is my mini-blog from the day and my own spin, so hopefully they won't bore you too much. I've tried to say a bit about all the pics rather than just bung a link to a Photobucket album cos I think the least people deserve for showing their car is a bit of personal attention, but if you wanna just see the album without all my waffle the link's here s668.photobucket.com/albums/vv43/Nik_da_Greek/Gathering%202012/As always, apologies for any inaccuracies, I'm not an expert on everything (some might say I'm an expert on nothing lol) but I try my best. And try to read it as self-depreciating irony, don't take anything the wrong way. All the cars are amazing in their own right, but our tastes all let us down sometimes First up, I''l start with my own stand, the rotaries of Exile Rotorsport and the RX7FB forum. MR TOOL's inspired rotor display should have gone some way to drawing a few people in, and certainly a lot came over and peered at it forlornly lol I reckon it was my pink blanket what made it really pop though hahaha. Maybe we need to set up some interpretation for people to get to grips with what they're looking at next time. Or have some friendly type (if we can find one) standing about to answer questions haha. I think many people were put off by the weird voodoo magic that seems to make the rotary engine work. Heathens, should show more respect for the only internal combustionengine patented in the 20th Century lol Right, cars then. Think we have to start with Timmers' new beast really, simply because it's most excellent and it's the first pic I came to I haven't got many of Steve's in here cos most of the full-car shots I took were on the hillclimb, which'll come later. Here's a couple of detail pics though Rexi84's Series 2 confused me until I realised it was supposed to be a different colour to mine, didn't realise Mazda went to the effort of making two almost identical blues Want! Loving the rotor heartbeat graphic, too By now you'd be forgiven for being hopelessly confused, you'd looked at Tim's turbo FC engine in an FB, then Steve's one-off throttle bodied lump, then come to the Weber IDA downdraft setup and you're like "gahhhh, all these cars look the same but every engine's different..... in fact, which bit is the engine?". Good job I kept my bonnet shut, or it'd have been "but this one's just a huge blue box in it, now I'm totally lost Marc and Karissa completed the line up of not-quite-matching blue FBs Gotta admit, those Celica-Supra wheels do look well! Ooooh, patination; What are the odds, eh? Don't see another FB from one month to the next and then three blue ones come all at once Just to prove we're not all about RX-7s some funny fella turned up with one of these MR TOOL's less good RX-2 of two (yes, jealous...) travelled a few miles further than the rest of us as he had to detour around every bump in the road higher than 5mm to avoid twatting the mid-box When Fisco turned up with the luxobarge Cosmo we certainly had a good spread of rotary weirdness. 13B luxury twin-turbo daft speed yours for 2.5k if you fancy it? Not a bad turnout then by any standards One of Marc's 323 mates sneaked on the end but I thought it fitted in quite well, being a dilapidated Wagon on minilites Is it wrong to like it? lol ...and as for Ian's new purchase, sorry dude, I thought I'd taken some pics of the exterior but I apparently didn't. I thought it was quite funny that Ian confessed he'd kept quiet what it was in case he got thrown off his own forum hahaha. I thought it was a pretty cool little car myself, and that's despite having been traumatised by owning one of its later sister models. Anyway, since I didn't get any photos of the outside, the secret's safe... unless anyone works it out from this sneaky shot of the bonkers "every manufacturer did it in the late 80's" experiment with rotary switchgear randomly strewn around the dash
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Aug 23, 2012 17:37:24 GMT
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Right then, on with the rest of the paddock. I'd read the threads on RR saying that the non-clubstand carpark was just as interesting as the "proper" displays and not necessarily believed, but they weren't exaggerating. Any car under the 1990 cut-off can park in here rather than the public carpark, and the range and quality was simply breathtaking. I haven't bothered separating these pics from those of the clubstands, cos the cars were simply equally good in both. So, in no especial order of anything... Plenty of cool old Datsun Z-cars around I guess like most I prefer the lighter, earlier models but even the 280s look pretty good This blue one was a modern twist on the oldskool with big new wheels and that for me, it's hard to improve on the stock body, little wheels look though A rather more modern Datsun, not 100% what this was doing there but at least they had a sense of humour There was a bewildering array of Fiat 126s on show. This is my personal favourite (and most people's, judging by the number of pics of it on RR) Turbo Volvo Amazon blew my skirt up rather, especially larruping up the hillclimb (more on that later) Mmmm, linear speedo FTW ....and this one too. Gotta respect any car that wears a purple sunshade Murder Death Kill matty Anglia looked like it should be murdering women in Death Proof or something well tuff Speaking of Anglias, this one seems to have these fellas intrigued. What, you mean they didn't come with head-size turbos and humongous Jenvey plenums as standard, then? Unbelievable the amount of work people put into old things like this Astra nowadays. My good lady had one of these back when we were impoverished students and that was only because it was the cheapest car we could find. It was terrible, too. This one is rather less terrible lol dedication to.... ...the cause of Shiny! Madame le Jo's favourite car I think. Well, she insisted I take some photos of what she kept calling "the baked bean" lol. So I did. And here they are; Funky Supertrapp exhaust on it, too. No, not those annoying curse word from the Sound of Music...
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Aug 23, 2012 17:38:24 GMT
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Plenty of almost pathological dedication to shiny wheels on show. Anyone who's willing to rock gold bolts on their splitties gets my repsec Slight change of tack. Plenty of Beetles around, a car I've had a love/hate realtionship with pretty much my entire life (we used to have them as a family car when I was a kid). Mostly I love them more than hate This fella had a good sense of humour on the stickers too (look closely lol) Sadly the demo car Beetle had issues after its first run and spent the rest of the day like this This is the one for me, looooooooow enough that I couldn't even get to see if it was on air or hydraulics or if the owner was simply very, very hardcore Shall we be kind to this Bimmer and say this is a homage to the old Roman SPQR banner? No? OK, Nazi it is then. Still made me chuckle though There's a lot of funny camber strategies going on nowadays More cool old Datsuns (in fact, there was a bewildering array of Datsuns, never knew so many had survived the inevitable return to the soil!). Bluebird wagon; Here's something you definitely don't see every day, a Nissan Cedric. Best car name evarrr? See? Not kidding! I'm a bit hopless on Datsun names, mostly because they didn't tend to have any. Who the hell can remember all those letters and numbers, why can't they have proper names like errr...RX-7? Think this is a 120N? 140Y? Brown is a colour perhaps surprisingly coming back "in" it seems, who'd have thought back when this was new? the obligatory Tokyo Metro hanging loops...
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Aug 23, 2012 17:39:32 GMT
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Yeah, alright, I'm reading them off the side of the car. Sue me. What's this one, then? Oldskool motor deserves odlskool photo styleee Lovely li'l old Fairlady looks excellent in bronze Open top J-tin motoring without having to go all menopausal and buy an S2000 lol That's enough Datsuns *ED* OK, OK, moving on... Ihave a lot of love for this wee black beastie Properly nice J coupe, an early Celica riding on some properly nice oldskool J wheels It just looks proper from any angle and gave me a chance to try and up my artiness quotient with some wheelage porn Again, don't see one for ages then.... here's one in white, for contrast Featuring "those" rear lights that had Ford in such a lather about the Mustang's brand identity and while we're on cool Toyota Celicas, here's one; Is it a Celica? Is it a Supra? Errr... oh, it's both. I think technically it's the first of the Supra brand. Correct me if you want lol. Nice wheels anyway Quite a few Corollas about, too. This purple one was well finished, to put it mildly. I'm not 100% about the origami-style hovercraft skirts, but it's a properly immaculate car with some nice touches.... ....like the crystal replacment controls ...and a huge dildo knob lol
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Aug 23, 2012 17:41:07 GMT
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I suppose this sort of thing is inevitable... Panda Levin homage to that tofushop delivery car Got camber (part 324) Movin on from Toyotas for a bit then, here's an arbitrary camper van in the best factory paint evar ....which is more than you can say of this one, which barely has any paint left at all hahaha the orange flashing light is the only shiny bit on it lol Still, we all like a bit of rat-look don't we, and speaking of which; I've got a fair amount of love for the Karmann Ghia....although this is the rarer Low Light isn't it? Probably like a 10k car sat there... anyway, who can fail to love a car that even the manufacturer touted as the slowest-accelerating sportscar on sale? This rusty one was mega though well, it's not entirely rusty. Some of it's filler Hardly a luxurious place to spend time Excellent. Want one There wasn't just Euro and J rides there, there was some Americana too. Sneaky peek; Oooooh, it's like a little sliver of suspender peeking through lol. The original bonkers roadster "that" pert, curvaceous rump and at the opposite end of the American car spectrum, an Oldsmobile Cutlass (I think, seems to be the same body as a Monte Carlo so I guess an 80s model? Let me know if you know lol) Spokes and dice caps. Lot of it about, doesn't make it bad
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Aug 23, 2012 17:42:31 GMT
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A bit of English Americana (if that makes sense?). Cortinas were basically 2/3-scale muscle cars after all, weren't they? This V6 is a bit tuff As for different reasons was this red 'un that appeared to have been brush painted The Dark Horse Mustang was sitting looking mean. I've got a load of pics of this wheelying like a mad thing, it looks just as evil sitting still it even kills the grass where it stands lol. Death by fire! Segueing seamlessly from one side-exit drag bus to another (damn, I'm good) comes this very English analogue Dunno whether this was one of the official demo cars or not, but massive respect for the driver ...because frankly you couldn't have picked a car that was further from it's purpose-built comfort zone than the incredibly nadgery narrow track up the hill, and the dude wasn't exactly holding it back immaculately presented as well, top bombing, sir! a car that was perhaps closer to its natural habitat was this bespoke mid-engined Silvia. I'd have liked to get more in-depth pics of this but never got round to it. It was epic watching it doriftuu around the toight-like-a-toiger hairpin though RR Car of the Year? Hell, yeah! You have to ask, you wouldn't understand More cool Beetle strategies. More camber weirdness (part 475) Nice to see kerb feelers still out and about. This one came out a bit errrr.... green Wolf and Castle ....errr, that'll be Wolfsburg then... motif I remember so well from our cars when I was little. We had a later model that was embossed on the wheel and my brother ended up with it embossed in his sternum backwards when he stuck the car into a tree lol I rarely feel motivated to take pics of Bimmers, they just don't rock my world, but this one is undeniably a bit special Plenty of groovy Golfs abound More BBS righteousness, unsusprisingly I love this graffiti job, not only for being bold and different... ...but also for actually being pretty good
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Aug 23, 2012 17:43:18 GMT
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Moar graffiti; Blimey, a Hillman Hunter wagon. Lovely job, so clean. I'd forgotten these things even existed Impish Imp with just the right amount of distressed look patination Excellent well used C-Type Jag with that Punisher/ the Scream motif out front lol And in contrast, a proper gentlemen's express Jag Judging by the plates this one had come a fair old way! Not your average Reliant Kitten! Not often you see a Cossie lump taking up quite such a big percentage of the car it's in! The demo-car Lancia is a bit of a bloody thing. Awesome piece of rolling motorsport heritage It's a tool. No, not that sort Strange beauty One couldn't help but notice this thing, even in a field full of arresting cars for when your "normal" Landy just isn't manly enough Loving the method of blocking off the frame tubes, dunno if this was intentional but it made me chuckle :lol:
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Aug 23, 2012 17:44:27 GMT
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This made me think, I didn't remember any Lotus Cortinas being four doors though I've a vague recollection of some sort of dress-up package being offered? Who knows? and the twin-cam badges don't relate to what you'd have first thought Ain't too shabby a job by any standards though. Nice mix of ancient and modern A brace of Matras. Can't remember the last time I even saw one, let alone a breeding pair lol Mini plus Chopper equals cool? Bit of local colour, made me happy to see this. Not often you see a Milstletoe this big nowadays, times are tough even for saprophytic parasite plantforms. Rare to see one at all these days, let alone a damn great huge one. No, I'm not weird You have to be confident in your product to name any car a "Monarch". Managed to forget to take any full-car pics of the big Mercury though. OOps Ian's wasn't the only nicely preserved first-gen MR2 there. I like this Panda one very much especially from this angle the wheels suited perfectly too. Is there any J coupe that doesn't suit a panda paint? This kept me entertained. From here it just looks a nicely sorted old Trumpet ...but there's hours of fun to be had comparing your musical preferences with the roof. Me and Tim decided the dude had reasonable taste, on balance hahaha Inevitably there were a few of the "other" famous Mazda around. This was one of my favourites, low and sleek ....and this one; low and errrr, not sleek
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Aug 23, 2012 17:45:28 GMT
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This Olds Cutlass Supreme made me chuckle, a great homage to Death Proof Sense of humour and knowing nod to Tarantino required Love it (not enough to buy it though, even at £850 lol) MDK Some more local colour... I think there should probably be a question mark after the first word of this sign, and maybe an exclamation point after the second. Maybe followed by an "oh s***!" PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG! Volvo P1800 sooooooo stylish, just lovely I love the deco interior and beautiful clockset More spokes and dice. Get the point lol Proper hardcase Pop, low squat and black. As it ought to be ...albeit this is a close second, tough looking beastie in naked primer Complicated instructions One of my faves of the show (and most people's, judging by the reactions), the famous window-exit zorst, bosozuku-styled, bonkers air-horn parping Nissan Prairie. Mad genius, I salute you Nissan GTiR Pulsar in not-eating-its-transfer-case shocker She's a Rover. Whisky in the jar not pictured
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Aug 23, 2012 17:46:32 GMT
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This Moggy 'vert was lovely, nice a fat juicy aubergine. And just check out that setting, what am awesome spot for a car show. Is there a more quintissentially English pic in this thread than this? Something missing... For such a gorgeously orginal-looking car (except the wheels) it had a few surprises that had me guessing. Like; side-exit-exhaust? Wha' go on? I don't even remember taking this pic. Couldn't even tell you what the car is hahaha. I do remember being impressed at this fella's dedication to ratlook, must have soaked this poor Veedub in salt for a year! Li'l Scooby pickup makes me think of a giant-size remote-control car. Maybe it's the aerial Loads of immaculate 'scorts were parked in back of our Exile stand. Failed to take pics of any of them, maybe I'm still in toxic shock Ford overdose from Bromley. Here's a well tidy bay though More scene-setting Rare beast in this little Simca. Sorta a shrunk Buick business coupe Jesus! Its guts are hanging out! Hey, mate, your car's prolapsed it's rectum!... Oh, it's meant to be like that. Sorry Skoda racer with it's engine in its bum. My brother had one of these briefly in the days of black and white, but it was nothing like this! (ie it was appalling!)
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Aug 23, 2012 17:47:32 GMT
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Surely this must be a homebrew conversion? Sunbeam never made this offically did they? Nice detail though Can I do the Achtung! Spitfeur one now? This Triumph GT6 moved me quite deeply. Absolutley bloody gorgeous and whilst we're on the topic of nicely set Triumphs.. Even the radio is wood-veneered lol Every time I see a clockset like this I wonder why anyone would want a digital LED lighty-uppy vulgar modern thing in their dash TWR-kitted RX-7 had some presence Possibly haven't included enough funky Vauxhalls in this thread so here's one to redress the balance Jeez, what is it with the dice? Everyone knows you should always bet on black, surely? How about this for a setting? You don't get views like this at Satan bloody Pod lol One last thing before we move on from the club cars to something else...] WTF!? No.....really, what the actual f***!?
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Aug 23, 2012 17:48:06 GMT
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Right, moving on and I make no apologies for over-egging this particular pudding. This is a bit about my favourite of the demo cars, and I reckon you already know which one, because it's your favourite one, too. Even if you don't know it yet. Need a hint? I can't ever envisage a time when I'm sat thinking, y'know, my priceless classic Bentley just doesn't move me any more, I need something to, like pep it up a wee bit.... ...but then I'm clearly not a glorious British eccentric in the mould of the mad genius (in a good way) who envisaged, created and is possessed of large enough cohones to actually drive.... ....this.... Yeah, because when you're bored of a classic Bentley the only sensible course of action is to wedge a 24 litre triple-bank Napier aeroplane engine into it. And then hang on Oh my God, I love this thing so much and when I grow up I want one just like it I could (and did) spend ages just poking around it, taking in all the little touches (as well as the whacking great big ones). From the tiny replica of the errrr.... pilot... in the grille ...to the comical decalling... lol! Yeah, like you could drive it sensibly... ...and the collection of event cards in the cockpit... ...then move on to the engineering. Like, where the hell do you source conrods for the thing! ... and that's not even mentioning the fact that this is a Bentley, so it's got all the wonderful crafstmanship WO's boys endowed it with in the first place ....and that's all before you come back to the inescapable elephant in the room and rediscover all anew that it's got an aeroplane engine in it. And it does this. ALL THE TIME This is possibly my defining image from the day, a roaring fire-engine red Bentley with an aircraft engine, burning smoke from its poor tyres while a sun-drenched crowd looks on in astonishment. Honestly, these are the days that make kids out of all of us. We need eccentric geniusses like this in our world Sir, I salute you!
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Aug 23, 2012 17:48:51 GMT
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which brings us on rather neatly to my pics from the hillclimb. Not the best, I'm afraid, my big fat ol lens is a bit of a blunderbus to take pics in a hurry, but I did my best In no particular order of awesome Zed testing its brake balance Tubby Amazon pressing on Beetle exploiting the extra handling advantage of airbrake quarterlights George and Mabel out for a Sunday picnic potter Celica Supra ended in the gravel at one point, hope it was OK Demo car V8 Cortina was a beastly thing Castrol CRX (proper Haahhhnda colours, just like the RC45s I lusted over) Drag 'scort put on a brave face despite being a million miles from its natural habitat Pretty much all the Golfs turned into tripods at the hairpin. Most of them scraped as well I know this is a curse word shot, out of focus and out of frame, but I had to comemmorate the wonderful insanity of taking a Granny limo up the hillclimb Hakosuka Skyline wasn't running at its best but sounded like the Apocalypse and is so beautiful I still feel much love Kamei Golf pretty as a picture Cossie YB engined Kitten... can you say "power-to-weight ratio", children? Demo Lancia looking purposeful I think this came past us on the M4, looked and sounded just as excellent here. Couple of Mercs, though not strictly Retro, doing what Mercs errrmmm, don't usually do
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Aug 23, 2012 17:49:25 GMT
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Aug 23, 2012 17:52:29 GMT
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Another Zed, making a beeline for the gravel. Got away with it, thankfully This was the best I could do with the mid-engined Silvia but you get the idea Mate, you've got something hanging out the backof the car.... oh,never mind A few of Steve taking his self-built fuel-injected FB to the max MkIII Supra had no glass at all in it! Drafty Vitesse looked so neat and clean I couldn't resist tiltshifting it Here it is actual size lol Kamei Golf looked so neat and clean I coul.... ahh, you get the idea... Escort driver must absolutley hate his car, he drove it like he wanted to crash. Well done, sir lol 'avin the craic indeed One last one of a three-wheeled Golf and a final reminder of how top a setting for a show it is ........and I'm spent! One last thing, a while back I bought an Elford front bumper from Ian and he and Steve were kind enough to organise getting it to the show so I could pick it up, saved me a round-trip to Staffs for it. Except, being the idiot I am, I forgot all about it at the time I offered Madame le Jo a lift because her Ralph the RX-4 wasn't ready. Hmmmm.... to be fair, it quite likely wouldn't have fitted so well even with just me. With the passenger seat full it sertainly didn;t have a whelk's chance in a supernova of going in. Well, some of it's actually in th ecar lol. This was how we drove back the 180 miles or so. Good job it was a beautiful sunny day. It was a bit loud though Loud and draughty Thanks to all those who helped with the gaffer tape and bungees. Less thanks to those who stood around taking the p*** and offering useless suggestions. You know who you are. Put it upright out of the sunroof? Thanks... Lol, top day, excellent in every respect and thanks to those who helped make it memorable. Thanks to all those who organised the show, this is one of my favourite I've been to and as no longer a virgin I'll be hoping to make it a proper extravanagze next year and join in the camping malarkey. Cheers for letting us be a part of the day, and thanks to anyone still reading my nonsense out there. If anyone thinks my feeble pics are good enough to do your car justice, please get in touch and the full size if you want them or just hoik them off the Photobucket. Cheers and much love, Nik
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Aug 23, 2012 19:13:37 GMT
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Some great pics there. Got a nice shot of My clubby with the chopper on the roof. Also a massive fan of the volvo 121. Just wish there was an estate there. The things I would do for one of those!
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Aug 23, 2012 19:15:51 GMT
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excellent pics thanks for sharing them
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Aug 23, 2012 20:43:36 GMT
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Get any pics of the grey gtir on track? Which also didn't eat its box or anything!
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Aug 23, 2012 20:55:22 GMT
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Lol, I only said that cos as a rotary owner it's lovely to rub shoulders with a car that suffers as bad a reputation for awesome speed shortly followed by expensive breakages, for a change But no, I'm afraid I didn't get any. You were running in the morning, weren't you? I saw it run and commented on how it sounded excellent but I didn't get a pic. Most of the pics I tried from where we stood in the morning ended up being pics of trees Soz
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Aug 23, 2012 21:00:43 GMT
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Fantastic write up and shots mate, a most enjoyable read ;D Yep, that Bentley is indeed a bit bonkers
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