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Khal

Hello? Melbournites? Where are you?

Yep, I'm comin' down for the Grand Prix

Paul and his wife are coming, too. We'll be down there about Friday lunch time.

gwsg, Carris, kidporsche, others, it'd be great to meet up with you guys. What're you doing?

sandgroper, are you still planning to be there?

Anyone else coming along? Speak up!
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leadfoot · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject:

I'm going on thursday as it's free and I can get the arvo off work... there's carrera cup action at 2:00 and 4:00 with V8 supercars inbetween.
If your around the city on friday evening we could go for beers at the european beer cafe....
How long are you staying for??
leadfoot

sandgroper · Joined: 07 Dec 2002 Posts: 108 Location: in limbo

Sold house an in the middle of moving,will be at a george thorogood concert that night reliving some youth,see ya in shanghai tho.

Khal · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:10 am Post subject:

leadfoot, we'll be there until Monday arvo. Beers on Friday sounds good. Where's the Cafe? Should be able to twist Paul's rubber arm on that one

We were thinking about heading into the Motor Show on either Friday or Saturday eve.

sangroper, Shanghai, eh? Cool. That's the last race, right?
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leadfoot · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject:

European Bier Cafe The
120 Exhibition St Melbourne 3000

I totally forgot about the motor show...whoops...

Anyway, I can meet you at flinders street station or at the cafe, it's a three story venue and we can meet on the top floor. The meals there are really nice too.
My numbers 0438 009 885 if you run into any problems.
Let's say 6:00pm... sound o.k??
leadfoot
stuart.w
oh yeah... I got to do the sound mixing for michael schumacher today... that dude is cool as a cucumber...

Khal · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:

OK mate, sounds good!

We might go to the track on Friday afternoon. We're staying on Clarendon St., near the casino.

I'll PM my number.
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Khal · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:53 am Post subject:

Man, I hope the weather report is wrong

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Paul · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject:

If it rains we will drown our sorrows with VB....

Khal · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject:

Well, we're back from the GP! Had a great time.

We caught up with leadfoot, went to a great pub! Thanks leadfoot. It was really good to meet up with another 924board member! I'm doin' pretty good, that's five so far

Sorry we missed the other Melbournites. But I'll be back next year...

Here's a couple of pics;

Our man Webber. He got 5th;

The Renault's got 1st & 3rd (Fisichella and Alonso, respectively);

The Great Red Hope, Rubhino, 2nd after Schuey went out;

Paul's got a few more pics. Over to you...
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Paul · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject:

Paul · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject:

Khal doing his Chuck Barris impression:

Paul · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

Paul · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject:

Joe, your no door handle option and paint scheme is catching on:

Neil924 · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 4225 Location: Canada

Anyone tape the race? I missed it, will trade an F1 race from 1994 or, old 1900's race clips, crashes on a cd... whatever.

Paul · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

I did at home in WI, I can send you a DVD in late April if you haven't found it by then.