katsa- atlas grey vn ss with reverse scoop. my mates maloo is black. he's shattered Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by RJB-223 [View Post] Great pics Matt Damn what a perfect combo.... i'll never get sick of seeing pics of black/silver calais turbos on FR's. can someone tell me if they are 19 or 20's please **** hot cant believe i missed this Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

i recon make it a static car show and let everyone make their own premeets and roll in. that would be the way to go. police assistance walking through to do crowd control and move traffic. no alchohol on site donate to show and shine. lets be honest the cruise bit is well and truly over now. its way too big so its just stop start now. static is the way ahead.

Quote: Originally Posted by SELO XST 045 [View Post] can someone tell me if they are 19 or 20's please **** hot cant believe i missed this They are 20s

Quote: Originally Posted by tab [View Post] overall i agree with you, but my main point is, there is no point having 1000's of cars attending when they cant even enter the main meet to donate, there was hundreads of cars still waiting on plenty rd for hours only to be turned away from the main meet!! so wat sense does it make having big quantity of cars in the name of charity when they cant even donate and thats the purpose of the cruise??? thats my point it not how many cars you get but how well the organisers organise a cruise and meet point to accomdate for all the cars attending!! I also saw and talked to many people who were inside the carpark and did not even donate because they said the queue is too long!! so wats the point of having big numbers when there is no garantee that all of them will donate to charity?? my soloution to this is have a few lanes into the venue and collect money as they drive in as people are in a big queue anyway to get in!!! this way its garanteed each car that enters will donate 100% and it mite keep away the people who were not planning to donate away from this cruise and as a result it will show true numbers at these events!! yes street commordores have done a good job (for the size and scale of the event) but you cant just run a event and let attendees suffer and cause disruption to inncoent citizens using those roads just because its for charity!!! (and a lot of them cannot even donate because organiser cant accomdate for so many cars) anyone can get big numbers on a cruise, but you must have a soultion to accomadate the numbers with the right meet points and roads!!! street commordores are well aware of the size of this event year to year and they know every year it gets bigger!! and they have one year to organise it!! im a car event organiser myself for the last 10 years and i know how much effort is put in to organise a succesfull event and run it!!, all im saying more thought needs to go into next years event in respect to venue`s and roads bieng used and if numbers are getting to big maybe they should consider a show and shine for charity only somewhere out of the suburbs or run a cruise over 2 days, 2000 pre registered cars oner day and and the other 2000 cars the next day!!! While I can see your point, and agree to a certain extent, the first meet point was lost only 2 months prior to the event due to the local council not getting themselves sorted. I bet you can guess how much extra work this made for the event management team. While I cant comment on the Calder Park meet point traffic as I was inside the event from about 8am, I cant tell you how very upset they were when they found out the first meet point was shut down, and people were turned away due to the traffic problems. Venues to cater for 3500 cars in Melbourne are extremely limited, and many of the decent ones are not interested in having their paddocks turned to dust by a few idiots out of the pack. Vic police, and Vic roads do not take the size of the event seriously enough, Vic Police work in with the event management as much as they can, but due to lack of staff there isnt really much more they can do to assist. The traffic is a problem, and there isnt one persone that wont agree with that, but you cant turn cars away because they are stock, or VN V6's!! Everyone has the right to attend the event, no matter what car they drive, its not about turning people away. Im sure that the event team are already working on what went wrong, and how to improve the event next year already. I dont have the answers, the people running the event are much smarter than me. However, they only real thing I have been able to think of would maybe be the option of a northern suburbs first meet point, and a south eastern first meet point, and a central destination point with a staggered time arrival. Im not sure a two day event could work, there would be no way to ensure there would be equal numbers each day. Not to mention the cost to hire the venues for 2 days along with staff and so on. Event staff were also busy making sure people were behaving themselves in the paddocks to rather than helping traffic management get cars in and out of the event. This also takes staff away from collecting donations. I personally think most people go with the intention of donating, I agrree though, if its too hard to make the donation, then a few people may choose to skip it, i think that goes against the spirit of the event though. But I guess your always going to get that.

Quote: Originally Posted by freEze_dK [View Post] Doesnt change what i said.. Anyone else see that r32 just past the entrance inside the dome on the grass? He randomly parked his car at the front half way during the day and lined up all his fines under his windscreen wipers Yes mate saw that, what was that all about anyway? ---------- Post added 24-10-12 at 03:05 ---------- Quote: Originally Posted by BLKF-18 [View Post] They are 20s Mate you have one of the most sexiest vl calais I've seen in a while great work bud. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by BLKF-18 [View Post] Thanks for the comments on my car there's more pics to come Hi Steve, FYI, Terry STILL curses everyday!!!!! hahahaha Car looks mint, keep it up man!

Quote: Originally Posted by PROMASTER [View Post] Yes mate saw that, what was that all about anyway? ---------- Post added 24-10-12 at 03:05 ---------- Mate you have one of the most sexiest vl calais I've seen in a while great work bud. Thanks bud. ---------- Post added 24-10-12 at 09:11 ---------- Quote: Originally Posted by INFLYTmelb [View Post] Hi Steve, FYI, Terry STILL curses everyday!!!!! hahahaha Car looks mint, keep it up man! Haha tell Terry the cars in good hands. Thanks Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Trust me, he knows man, we were talking about it at his house not long ago, curses pretty hard that he sold. i remember it being really nice to drive too - tightest VL i've ever driven!

my old vn cepta: Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by BLKF-18 [View Post] They are 20s so i am guessing it your car. well done champ .. very sad i didn't get to come across it on the day black calais /polished fr's will say it is brilliant Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

thanks for the pics steff! Mitch, i disagree If its made a static car event there is no way i or many others will bother attending. Surely this is becoming bigger every year, raising good money, deserves good media publicity and someone that organizes c4c should be contacting state gov. or councils for the next one, even try and divert traffic or something, seriously they shut roads down for cycling events and they dont do it for charity. if those wankers get roads closed for them surely we should be able to have strings pulled for us. Still cant believe there was no media coverage/announcments!

@steff thanks for that my cars first pic. (ufi440)

chris, you don't think you would be happy to pre meet in then hang out there? Also i agree wouldn't it be awesome to close down the entire eastern and cruise from say monash right down to frankston or something of the like to use up as much of the road as possible. they shut down the eastern for cycling and fun runs occassionally so it should be possible and it wouldn't destroy traffic on a sunday.

Quote: Originally Posted by hijakt [View Post] Everyone should stop picking on all the eye candy cars etc, it was for charity so everyone stop being so contradicting, it wasn't a Vl turbo cruise, it was a street commodores cruise for charity last time I looked Here here, Yes it was for charity, who cares what people do or dont do to their cars. Its everyones personal choice.

Thanks for the pics of my beast steff Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by Katsa [View Post] thanks for the pics steff! Mitch, i disagree If its made a static car event there is no way i or many others will bother attending. Surely this is becoming bigger every year, raising good money, deserves good media publicity and someone that organizes c4c should be contacting state gov. or councils for the next one, even try and divert traffic or something, seriously they shut roads down for cycling events and they dont do it for charity. if those wankers get roads closed for them surely we should be able to have strings pulled for us. Still cant believe there was no media coverage/announcments! ^^^ so true but at the end of the day the media will just label us as hoons anyway no matter what Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Your car looks very nice BTI-987. Can't beat Simmons on a vl. Think I may have to invest in a set Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

bills cepta [BT1] takes the cake hands down in those pics , built properly like it should look inside and out ... satin finish mx bars, everything where it should be on the exterior etc cant fault it , no pretend cop stories about it too lol too many are built the wrong way these days Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

^^^Agree luv that car.