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Club President
I supported Toymods
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Official Cruise Dude
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liverpool
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 17 December 2004 04:01
 
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yes 4 shore as i can never get time off 4 Easter as long as i am a baker 
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I supported Toymods
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Plumpton/sydney
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November 2003
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 17 December 2004 08:17
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How about an easter fund raiser for charity
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June 2003
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 17 December 2004 21:29
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fund raiser, hmmmm, the nationals booze fund could use some contributions
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Land of Oz
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June 2004
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Sun, 19 December 2004 03:39
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Hi,
| puzzle man wrote on Fri, 17 December 2004 15:01 |
yes 4 shore as i can never get time off 4 Easter as long as i am a baker
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Good stuff, you can bring the Hot-X buns! 
seeyuzz
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May 2002
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Tue, 21 December 2004 06:50
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At this stage id prefer to come to a toymods event in sydney then drive to tamworth for a weekend at the " new nationals "
so yeah whatever you have planned id be interested in - Show and shine , cruise , whatever - as long as i have a sydney based navigator ( robst162 - this calls for you )
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Official Cruise Dude
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liverpool
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March 2004
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 23 December 2004 05:34
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| river wrote on Sun, 19 December 2004 14:39 |
Hi,
| puzzle man wrote on Fri, 17 December 2004 15:01 |
yes 4 shore as i can never get time off 4 Easter as long as i am a baker
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Good stuff, you can bring the Hot-X buns!
seeyuzz
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OK river let me tell u how Manny stupid hot-x-buns we make. try
over 6000  . normally we make about 270 bread rolls on a busy day  SO we get smashed
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Colac, Victoria
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May 2002
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 23 December 2004 09:11
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Slip in a bit of green foliage and watch all the easter celebrations turn mellow - hahaha !
( note : classique71 does not support drug use - drugs - expecially mindf*king ones are bad Mkay )
Anyway so - anymore details,ideas etc yet guys ?
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Land of Oz
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June 2004
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 23 December 2004 21:07
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Hi,
Thanks 4 that Puzzleman. Try and make some without those gross sultanas and crap that they have.
In regards to a Toymods Easter event, I'm interested. As I mentioned at the meeting I am only interested in entering a Show & Shine with my car (no racing, drifting or dragging in the old girl) and for that reason I am reluctant to travel 4 hours just for a half day event.
I'd certainly be happy and support a "local" event organised by Toymods. So long as we can get together, look at and talk about cool Toyotas, have a bit of a barbie and sink some ale.
seeyuzz
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April 2003
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 24 December 2004 02:45
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Sounds good to me.
Wanted to go to Tamworth but work will not let that happen this year so a cruise somewhere would be good.Although i vote for the Central Coast as its a good middle ground for anyone travelling from this area.
Just and idea.
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Colac, Victoria
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May 2002
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Mon, 27 December 2004 00:37
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updates updates updates ?!?
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Epping, Sydney
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April 2003
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Mon, 27 December 2004 01:46
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so yeah whatever you have planned id be interested in - Show and shine , cruise , whatever - as long as i have a sydney based navigator ( robst162 - this calls for you )
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now generally speaking I am a crap navigator however I think I know sydney well enough now to be semi-decent
though, on dyno day 7 didn't I take the wrong turn-off on the M4??  
lol, am keen to here whatever you guys decide
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Colac, Victoria
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Mon, 27 December 2004 02:07
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heh - but we still got there !
BTW im not able to get to jan dyno day rob due to things here at home - so this if orgainsed will be the first chance ill get back to sydney in ages
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June 2004
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 30 December 2004 14:00
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observation Rally sounds like a good idea... they are always fun.
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Sat, 01 January 2005 09:39
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As previously mentioned, im not going to compete at the nationals this year but ill be a sheep and follow the herd.
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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Mon, 03 January 2005 22:00
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Yeah, I'm with BlackSupra.
I would've liked to compete, but only in the events that were planned, not the ones that are going to happen.
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Toymods Vice President
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Tue, 04 January 2005 06:52
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OK I have made enquireies today towards trying to get something organised for Easter. I can't elaborate just yet as it may come to nothing but I just figured I better let you guys know we are still working on this.
We will have a definite answer by the end of the month.
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Tue, 04 January 2005 06:58
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Such diplomatic vague direction shown by the toymods board
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Sydney
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July 2002
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Tue, 04 January 2005 07:19
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how about this glen - you are a massif dong.
vaigue enough?
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Colac, Victoria
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Tue, 04 January 2005 07:21
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hopefully before teh month end!
some interstaters - ie ME will need to organise time off in advance - well in advance
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Sydney
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Wed, 05 January 2005 02:15
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just take the time off mate, no matter what there will always be some sort of event on during easter in the greater toyota community.
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I supported Toymods
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Australia
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November 2003
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Wed, 05 January 2005 04:57
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| BlackSupra wrote on Sat, 01 January 2005 17:39 |
As previously mentioned, im not going to compete at the nationals this year but ill be a sheep and follow the herd.
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Yeah, sounds like me too
I've got 2 weeks off over easter at this stage, so I'll be heading over.
Make sure its worth my while peoples.
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Land of Oz
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Wed, 05 January 2005 06:08
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Hi,
| BlackSupra wrote on Sat, 01 January 2005 20:39 |
As previously mentioned, im not going to compete at the nationals this year but ill be a sheep and follow the herd.
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Baaaaaa... baaaaaaa
seeyuzz
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Wed, 05 January 2005 06:40
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i want to go - no doubt - i just ahve to see whether the planned events will fit in to what i ahve to offer car wise - id hate to turn up to a show and shine - with my car looking like crap , or a drag day with no power to make a good time etc ..
PLUS its a 4 day + setup to go up and back for me to drive to sydney so i want to make the best of all the days i can have up there!
pesky only having 4 weeks annual leave ! and so many car fun events to cater for
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Toymods Vice President
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Wed, 05 January 2005 23:05
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| BlackSupra wrote on Tue, 04 January 2005 17:58 |
Such diplomatic vague direction shown by the toymods board
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Sorry about the vagueness. However I would much rather be vague until it is all confirmed than disappoint people by making big claims of what is going to happen and then when the time comes not actually have any of those events. We've all seen that kind of thing too many times already.
Believe me we are trying to get a good event happening, and no matter what there will be an event. It just depends on weather we can get everything to fall into place to run what we want to run.
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I supported Toymods
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Australia
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 06 January 2005 09:26
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| CrUZsida wrote on Thu, 06 January 2005 15:24 |
Otherwise Pete is gonna have it forever.
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Yes he will, because there will be no day 
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Toymods Vice President
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 07 January 2005 03:32
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| CrUZsida wrote on Thu, 06 January 2005 15:24 |
Can you guys organise a DynoDay while I'm over there?
So I can claim the over 2.8 NA catagory?
Otherwise Pete is gonna have it forever.
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Sorry Cruz, but with the amount that Dyno days are costing us at the moment we really can't be running two in three months.
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I supported Toymods
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Australia
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November 2003
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 07 January 2005 03:41
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| Joshstix wrote on Fri, 07 January 2005 11:32 |
Sorry Cruz, but with the amount that Dyno days are costing us at the moment we really can't be running two in three months.
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Yeah, thought so.
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October 2004
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Mon, 10 January 2005 05:39
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Rob bro plz keep me informed as i cant always go on this forum... i wanna go too
and if you rekon ur nav is bad.... u should follow me lol.... its shocking!... u'd end up at newcastle if i was taking u to Wollongong
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Mon, 10 January 2005 14:06
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couple of us taree boys would be up for it ,what would the date be to see about time off..
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Sydney
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Mon, 10 January 2005 21:04
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easter.
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Tue, 11 January 2005 04:34
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You can add at least half a dozen of us Canberran's, to your event. We will definately NOT be going to Tamworth.
regards Chuck.
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Membership Secretary
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Tue, 11 January 2005 07:49
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Fair enough chuck
where was the crown on friday night would of loved to have seen that, even though tht celica is one nice car.
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Wed, 12 January 2005 12:08
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Easter is coming round real quick.......
Hope you guys get something underway, have any of you considered Power cruise at eastern creek?????
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 13 January 2005 20:57
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Sounds like people are bycotting the Tamworth event bigtime. Still, Sydney is a lot closer especially if Toymods is considering racing at Eastern Creek.
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Toymods Vice President
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 13 January 2005 23:08
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| YOGI8U wrote on Wed, 12 January 2005 23:08 |
Easter is coming round real quick.......
Hope you guys get something underway, have any of you considered Power cruise at eastern creek?????
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Yeah Easter sure is coming up soon and I'm working as quick as possibe to try and get our first option event organised.
Power cruise is a really cool event but we'd love to have a good Toyota event.
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Colac, Victoria
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 14 January 2005 01:25
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what were the suggested events josh ?
show and shine ?
drag day at WSID ?
nav Cruise etc etc ?
Seeing the canberra boys are coming across too - have they got any suggestions ?
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 14 January 2005 02:33
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Sounds like it's Toymods + Canberra Celica Group Vs Toyota Nationals!
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Toymods Vice President
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Sydney
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 14 January 2005 04:12
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| John S wrote on Fri, 14 January 2005 13:33 |
Sounds like it's Toymods + Canberra Celica Group Vs Toyota Nationals!
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There is no-one versus anyone. We are offering to organise an event for people who want it on the Easter long weekend and it appears there are several people who do.
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Fri, 14 January 2005 08:06
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plus as not allc an drive to tamworth in that short time ( like me ) it offers another alternative to catch up with friends
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Club President
I supported Toymods
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Sydney
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Fri, 14 January 2005 13:45
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| John S wrote on Fri, 14 January 2005 13:33 |
Sounds like it's Toymods + Canberra Celica Group Vs Toyota Nationals!
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John,
Toymods has run Events at Easter for those not going to the Toyota Nationals on more than one occasion in the past.
2001, The Nats was canned at the last minute, Toymodders wanted an Easter event so we went to Dubbo anyway and had a blast
http://www.toymods.org.au/gallery/displayimage.php ?album=8&pos=16
http://www.toymods.org.au/gallery/displayimage.php ?album=8&pos=17
2002, The Nats was shit Canned at the last minute yet again so Toymods Hooked up with the Woolongong Crowd and had a really great long weekend. Navigation rallies, show n shine and a shitload of good old fashion socialising, eating and drinking.
http://www.toymods.org.au/gallery/displayimage.php ?album=10&pos=46
2003, Toymodders asked for an alternative and we held a treasure hunt style rally and BBQ over the break. It was a good fun day and as with all Toymods events is focused on the Social.
http://forums.toymods.org.au/index.php?t=msg&t h=11616
2004 - All the board went to the Nats and had a blast so there was noone in Sydney lol
2005 - Our members asked us to provide an alternative to what was on offer and we are doing our best to come up with something for them. The Nationals commitee have been planing their event since last Easter, We started this month so don't expect miracles..... but we really are trying. At least we listened !
This has nothing to do with anyone V's anyone. If it was we would have planned something months ago and the Nats wouldn't be advertised on OUR forums. Toymods has always encouraged the wider Toyota Community to stick together which is why other groups like the CCG canbe found at any Toymods organised event, everyone is welcome.
The simple fact is we actually listen to what our members ask for (Its their club) and are working hard to try and fill their requests. We are a social club and for us thats what its all about !
PS, this easters Toymods social will almost deffinatly NOT at Eastern Creek.
[Updated on: Fri, 14 January 2005 14:10]
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Sun, 16 January 2005 07:53
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guys another event that might be worth going to is powercruise that is on at eastern creek over the long weekend 24th 25th 26th and 27th of march. www.powercruise.net all the info about the event is there should be huge.
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Sun, 16 January 2005 09:41
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Easter Weekend 24,25,26 & 27th MARCH
Cruising Eastern Creek Raceway, Street Racing, Power Skids
Drifting, Burnouts, Dyno Comp
Camping all weekend, Live Bands, After Dark Adult Entertainment
Miss Powercruise, Show & Shine, Trade Exhibition
Sound Off, Doorslammers to Street Race & Cruise with.
Spectator:
Friday 25th March 2005 $25.00
Saturday 26th March 2005 $35.00
Sunday 27th March 2005 $35.00
3 DAY SEASON PASS $70.00
Entrant:
Prepaid Before 31st Jan 2005 $100.00
Prepaid Between 31st Jan & 17th March 2005 $160.00
Paid after 17/03/05 & on the day (25,26,27) $200.00
ENTRANT/SPECTATOR 3 DAY CAMPING PASS $20.00
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Sydney
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Sun, 16 January 2005 10:00
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| thetoyman75 wrote on Sat, 15 January 2005 00:45PS, |
this easters Toymods social will almost deffinatly NOT at Eastern Creek.
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What Rod said
I would like to think that we can organise and attend an event which allows our members to come together for an awesome social, and enjoy a little fun in our cars at the same time! Concentrating 100% on the motorsport aspect is what eventually kills an event, as if there is no social aspect, why would anyone go again? That said - people are attracted to an event by what the event entails, thus you do NEED motorsport/shows to draw people into the event and give them something to do and have fun...
When you are considering such a close knit group as the greater toyota community, the social aspect of events is what we all thrive on.... but at the same time we all love some good motorsports!!
In any case, something will happen for easter, so if you are keen to catch up with all the toyota nutters - keep easter long weekend free.
[Updated on: Mon, 17 January 2005 00:03]
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Sun, 16 January 2005 10:13
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ill pencil the weekend off - hoping this event is worth it Karl! * grins *
Social is fun - and a cruise / show is nice too - worth the trip for a good weekend in that manner .
plus it gives me 2 months about to get the fking Gt4 ready for a long trip
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I supported Toymods
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Perth
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Mon, 17 January 2005 03:34
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I'm still keen to come. Time will tell if someone wants to hire me, or if Project Decade will ever turn a wheel in anger.
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Tue, 25 January 2005 09:38
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Less than a week till the end of the month
whats the story morning glory?
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I supported Toymods
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Sat, 29 January 2005 11:39
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ill be in for that.
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Sun, 30 January 2005 11:16
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or we could just hire out wake feild for a day if you get enough cars its not that expencive
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Tue, 01 February 2005 06:26
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news ? updates ? ideas ?
got to start at looking at car readyness or airfares if im going to come to this planned event guys
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Toymods member
I supported Toymods
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Wed, 02 February 2005 13:13
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Stu, drive the beast up dude... I really wanna see what work you've put into it that pics won't justify.
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Club President
I supported Toymods
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Sydney
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Wed, 02 February 2005 23:11
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Just to keep everyone in the loop we have been madly trying to secure a location for our Easter get together.
Our first choise is unfortunatly not a viable one and we are chasing up an alternative venue as we speak.Please bare with us, these things are not easy to arrange and we have only had very short notice of the need to arrange something.
Worse case sceranrio will be a social weekend away with a show and shine and a social outline.
We will be getting together and appreciate everyone patience while we try and secure the best weekend possible with such little notice.
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Thu, 03 February 2005 01:53
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atm its a choice of 2 weeks in NZ or the sydney easter event .. or both if i can swing it
not sure if ill be able to get to it due to work ( another guy booked easter hols seeing as i wasnt sure what was happening this year )
but we'll see - sounds like its worth the drive if possile!
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 03 February 2005 04:49
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| thetoyman75 wrote on Thu, 03 February 2005 10:11 |
Worse case sceranrio will be a social weekend away with a show and shine and a social outline.
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There is already a perfectly good weeekend away that fits this description planned for those dates. One which a large number of people enjoyed have enjoyed (including Toymods) over a long history and is conducted with the interests of the enthusiasts in mind.
http://www.toyota-nationals.org.au
The original reason for Toymods organising an alternative event was as a local (sydney metro) alternative for people unable to attend the Nationals.
For Toymods to organise an alternative "weekend away" trip is pure HYPOCRISY.
Would it REALLY HURT to encourage Forum users to attend Australias longest running Toyota event ??
I'd hate to think there was a personal agenda at work here.
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Toymods Social Secretary
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 03 February 2005 04:58
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matt - as stated in the first post, this has to do with what our member's have asked, and what they want.
If you want to discuss that further, i suggest you do so via email. This is not the place.
board@toymods.org.au
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Club President
I supported Toymods
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Re: EOI - Easter Event
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Thu, 03 February 2005 06:06
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| Special Ed wrote on Thu, 03 February 2005 15:49 |
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Worse case sceranrio will be a social weekend away with a show and shine and a social outline.
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There is already a perfectly good weeekend away that fits this description planned for those dates. One which a large number of people enjoyed have enjoyed (including Toymods) over a long history and is conducted with the interests of the enthusiasts in mind.
http://www.toyota-nationals.org.au
The original reason for Toymods organising an alternative event was as a local (sydney metro) alternative for people unable to attend the Nationals.
For Toymods to organise an alternative "weekend away" trip is pure HYPOCRISY.
Would it REALLY HURT to encourage Forum users to attend Australias longest running Toyota event ??
I'd hate to think there was a personal agenda at work here.
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Matt,
Toymods is a car club that has members. As the board of Toymods car club it is our responsibility to run the club in a way that benefits our members and fills there requests. We listen to the opinions and suggestions of our members and event attendees. For this reason we are planning on holding an event over the Easter long weekend. This isn't "HYPOCRISY", this is running a club where you are there to serve the members rather than yourself.
The fact is if you run an event that appeals to people they will come. A lot of people are unhappy with the event you plan to run and they plan not to attend. The unhappiness has been building for some time with the amount of people who really did not want to move the event from Dubbo. Followed by the obvious snubbing of one of the organisers who was informed he was not an organiser this year when he asked why he hadn’t been involved in the discussion about moving the event. The final straw for most people has been the fact that the event was moved to Tamworth, as far as we could tell from the explanations, to get more sponsorship and have more events. However this year your event costs more, is further away for most, has less sponsorship and less motorsport events, in fact there are no motorsport events at all.
As to "Would it REALLY HURT to encourage Forum users to attend Australia's longest running Toyota event ??" practically the entire board of Toymods attended the last Toyota Nationals, how many of the nationals guys attended Toyota Fest?
Perhaps instead of using the Toymods forum as an advertising tool you could become more involved in the wider Toymods/Toyota community, and perhaps if you took notice of feedback when you asked for it there would not be this situation. As for a long established history, some would argue what is currently organised has no resemblence to the event after which it is named.
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Rod,
PLEASE show me where Toymods Car Club, or any individual forum user has fed back through ANY channel, negative or discouraging advice about the plan to ...
1. relocate the Nats (I believe it was your members suggestion in the first place (remember the wakefeild discussion.)
2. Make Tamworth the new location.
Most that I can find or remember are merely enquiries, or outright support for a move to new venue, and then positive feedback about what could be available in Tamworth.
A requirement of organising an event like this is that your organisers take some part in the organising itself. Otherwise obviously that person is not an organiser. The organiser you mentioned has not contacted the 2005 Organising Committee through any means other than this forum - under a pseudonym - since the last Toyota Nationals. Where, I might add, they made unconsidered promises of new events without engaging any demcratic process with the committee. It is also after this "organisers" interactions with local Dubbo sponsors that they were less than helpfull for the following year. FWIW in recent times they have been ignoring enquires from new Canberra locals as to suggested events for the easter weekend. (Yes even the Toymods one).
To address a few other issues which have been raised...
1. that the nats is not necesarilly a social/fun event hence the need to offer an alternative social event. This year the Nats is PURELY social. Only show and shine is in anyway competitive, all other events are non cometitive outings designed to be fun.
2. That Tamworth is an excessively long drive.
Tamworth is exactly 404 km from castle hill. Dubbo is 393 km from castle hill (source travelmate.com.au). I hope I dont need to expand on that regarding sydney competitors. As for interstate, Queensland traditionally has been the largest interstate supporters of the Nats throughout its history, Whilst it does represent a longer drive for the southerners, they have had it good for quite some time (being even closer than sydney in some cases in the past).
3. That it is an expensive weekend. This year costs are at their lowest in a long time, less than $100 would get you to show your car, friday welcome dinner, sunday presentation dinner + a t shirt. Surely that could not be seen as exessive.
Sponsorship is not the problem, Timing was. Toyota Corporate have changed the support structure for events such as these and as our intending major sponsor, could not give us the support we needed in time to secure the venues and permits required for motorsport. In future years this will not be a problem and we will return to an event which incorporates motorsport.
On the weekend of the Toyota Fest show, Grant, Dave and Myself were away on a daytrip to meet with sponsors and facities in Tamworth AT OUR OWN EXPENSE. It was a long day but very productive, gaining sponsors and the suppoort of TSCC, Tamworth City Council, Tamworth Tourism,Tamworth Toyota and the Tamworth regional Police Area Command. They were all very welcoming and accomodating - the kind of place the event could grow and return more to its competitors.
As the Toyota Nationals is a non - profit organisation, we rely on word of mouth advertising, internet forums, and the goodwill of past attendees to spread accurate information. Constant reminding and pressure from Toymods regarding our "Free Advertising", suggests that it is Toymods who wish to benefit financially from this community event, by charging us money to advertise and adding to our costs, which must be passed to competitors in the end anyway.
We do try to maintain a webpage for the information of competitors, though as we are not lucky enough to have highly skilled web designers on the committee and with mainly armchair critics looking on, we are lucky to have a few volunteers to help us out, a huge commitment from Alchemist has significantly aided us here, thanks very much Nathan ! In that respect we ask that you please consider that to have an amazing web presence would probably result in amazing increases in costs to the competitors, and we understand cost is the number one factor when considering to attend potential events.
You suggest that the current event is unlike the "Toyota Nationals" of old, when in fact the 2005 format is closer to the traditional event than has been held in a couple of years. For most of the 25 + year history of Toyota Nats, the format has been a largely social one, Motorsport is a recent addition. The proposed 2005 format is a return to events from the past which have since been heralded as "the best ever" despite a lack of formalised motorsport events.
Anyhow, the Nats are gathering momentum. Final arrangments in place and I would like to take this opportunity to thank those people who have been supportive. Descisions such as we have had to make are not easy, trust that we the organising committee have only your best interests at heart and are looking forward to another great time this year in Tamworth.
See you there.
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EOI - Easter Event
