AE86slut wrote on Thu, 07 October 2004 10:06

And we can send them out shopping while we do 'Man's Business'.

Sound like a great plan to me!!!

[Updated on: Thu, 07 October 2004 05:52]

SYDNEY CONVOY!

THE LIST: (who is in!)
Bathurst-91 Definate (if car is 100%)
Sprinter-Saurus Definate
DMonk86 Possibly
John K Definate
Garth Definate
Des Definate
UUP-46X Possibly
AE86slut Definate
mrf_ool Definate
WHITCHY + Friend Definate
org86t Definate
J-AE86 Possibly

13 cars so far.

ROUTE: (be it scenic or direct, or a mix of both)
TBA
the THREE possibilities.

1. HUME HWY - Most Direct - Speed Cameras/Regular HWY
Distance: 850.76km
Time: 11.49hrs (more like 10-11hrs)

2. PRINCES HWY - The Coastal Drive -
Distance: 1057.62km
Time: 23.00hrs (my estimates would say 14-15hrs max)

3. HUME HWY/SNOW MTNS HWY/OMEO HWY - Hume until just abit passed canberra, then we take a detour through the snowy mountains (inview of kosciusko) then back onto the hume further south.
Distance: 1018.34km
Time: 17.58hrs (realistically Id say 13-14hrs max)

These are acording to (whereis.com.au) I very much doubt The Princes Hwy route is 10hrs more! thats nuts. Obviously once upon a time they had 60 speed limits there. But its only 200km more so were actually looking at about 2-3hrs more or less.. Same goes for #1 and #3

NOTE
2hrs+ more than we need to does sound a tad too much. But here is my theory. We could take the Princes Hwy on the way there and if it really does turn out to be WAY too long and not exciting then we simply take the Hume on the way back. Better than taking the hume there and then taking prices on the way back only to find its a waste of time. And besides.. Your probably going to drive to melbourne a few more times in this lifetime and it will be along the hume hwy... Lets see that coastal horizon! But I do agree that it is abit too much. So thats why I searched for OPTION #3!!!

STOPS: (refuels + 1? major stop)
TBA

DEPARTURE FROM: (location)
TBA
;;suggestion
--Shell @ Centenery Dr/Homebush Bar Dr/Roberts Rd/King Georges Rd (Chullora/Bankstown) its the road to the M5.
;;suggestion
Homebush P6

DEPARTURE DATE/TIME:
TBA
Friday 10th of December
;;suggestion
--Friday. 6:00am.
;;suggestion
--Friday 10:00am.
;;suggestion
--Friday 10:00pm.

either way we need to avoid traffic. Otherwise your looking at adding 40min sitting in traffic. And I think leaving any time Saturday is not a good idea. This would mean we only have 1 night and 1 day for 1600km of driving.

ARIVING AT: (locaton)
TBA

ETA: (estimated time of arrival)
TBA

ACCOMMODATION INFO:
TBA
suggestion;;
camping at the event?. I doubht this will be allowed. But I guess camping in the hachis would save on accomodation.

*david attenborough voice* here we see one of natures most splendid occurances, a pack of hachi rokus nesting in their natural habbit..

COST INFO:
$__.__ petrol for 1700km of driving
$__.__ for food.
$30.00 for cb/walkie talky radios from tandy/dicksmith/jaycar (they go for as cheap as $60 for 2. So perhaps some people could split the price and have 1 each).

Dick Smith:
http://dseau.resultspage.com/search.php?sessionid= 416b13470faac59e273fc0a87f9c0758&w=cb+radio&am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;am p;I1.x=0&I1.y=0&I1=Go&site=
Tandy:
http://www.tandy.com.au/cgi-bin/tandy.storefront/4 16b13370fa72cd4273fc0a87f9c071e/Export/catalogs/CT G0004799
Jaycar:
http://www1.jaycar.com.au/

As someone mentioned before, this is a must have on a long drive like this. It'll keep the group together and you can have your say aswell as just generally talking crap for entertainment.

TRIP SCHEDULE: (this will be made more clear) so far its based on leaving friday morning, please feel free to add things, you dont have to tag along but might aswell do stuff whilst down there;

;;suggestion
--friday will involve the trip down.
--friday night, arive at accomodation. hit the town for drinks.
--sat morning(recovery)/lunch drive (in group) to afew spots for 'sight seeing'/lunch = meet up with all the hachis for bbq/whatever then head out for a relaxing drive see what melbourne is all about.
--sat night find a road outter city... depending on how good it is either stay out late, or head back to city for more drinks.
--sunday head to calder park to watch how the melbourne region do their thing/meet with largest gathering of AE86's in AU EVER!. Pics/vids/talk, all that.
--late sunday arvo (or night).. or perhaps monday head back up to syd!

Ill do some research on clusters of petrol stations along the way. Im not sure about you guys. But Im looking at 190km-200km per tank. So thats a fair few stops for me!

Everyone make suggestions to my little list above and ill add them. Also if your in 100% (on near it) say so and you will be added to 'the list'.

This will possibly be the largest AE86 meet for years to come. So it must be attended.

[Updated on: Fri, 15 October 2004 05:32]

Arch wrote on Wed, 06 October 2004 22:44

get fucked up, crash.

dont say that jinxing all the ppl into crashing say sleep well or something ,while were on the subject can we sleep at the track eg:camp or something like that if so we coulg get every sprinter in town to come

[Updated on: Sun, 10 October 2004 11:53]

Yeha me be a P plater, and so is my mate.

Des: Max speed for P plater is 90 Km/H

Since it is too hard to pull the P plate off the dash and boot and go full speed, I think we will just stick to 90 and catch up in Melb.

Once we are in Melbourne it won't matter, as their system allows L and P platers to do whatever the speed limit is, and I have some VIC P plates so we can just slap them on, its only on the NSW side that there is an issue.

But we have a system that will get us by!

-Whitchy-

[Updated on: Tue, 12 October 2004 08:40]