[s4matt]

s4 matt will be there
Coming from Penrith
Where do you live??
Home via Richmond is great for me

[GMS COOPER S]

10am Sunday it is....see you at Pie in the Sky...watch out for the Pure Silver S with 17" composite wheels.

[Smurfn]

I'll be there on the 10th, unfortunately won't be able to make the 24th (Wedding Anniversary).
Driving down from Newcastle.
Will hopefully have finished the runin before then.

[FLiPSiDE]

i wont b able to make it to this weeks meet
some piece of filthy trash put a black recyling bin on the inside lane of the hume hwy just before liverpool where there are few streetlights and i couldnt see it till it went exploding all over my windscreen
suffice to say i'll b getting it fixed first thing 2 moro but it wont be ready by sunday i'd hope by the 24th...

anyways have fun guys

[s4matt]

So looks like there is only 3 of us this sunday
GMS cooper s where in Sydney will you be coming from??
Flipside sorry to hear your sad news?
do you have another car??
WEould you like to come anyway as a passenger??
How much damage??
I doubt there are many spares in Sydney yet

[GMS COOPER S]

Bad news for flip side.

I'll be coming up the Pacific Highway from Lindfield. I assume you'll (S4matt) be coming from Penrith and from some of NHODGES photographs, the lower North Shore.

We could convoy it up there from Wahroonga.

[nhodge]

bloody recycling. should be banned! who cares about global warming causing whales to give birth to mutant alien facsist babies resulting in mass degredation of underwater coral rain forests?

Anyway, yeah, good guess GMS. LNS for me.

I'll be @ Pie-in-the-Sky at 10am. With bells on.

[rich]

Quote:

Originally posted by FLiPSiDE
i wont b able to make it to this weeks meet
some piece of filthy trash put a black recyling bin on the inside lane of the hume hwy just before liverpool where there are few streetlights and i couldnt see it till it went exploding all over my windscreen
suffice to say i'll b getting it fixed first thing 2 moro but it wont be ready by sunday i'd hope by the 24th...

anyways have fun guys

...Ooh, bugger!

[FLiPSiDE]

well i was all depressed last nite, feelin better today, is only a car after all i do have another car, a 73 mini clubman heh so i mite drag her outa the garage for a run on sunday tho shes a bit taddy at the moment

its not all that bad just scratched up front bumper cracked headlight cover and a little dint on the bonnet as well as a few other little scratches here and there oh and the parker light is gone.. just lookin at the pic now realised the parkers and fog lights have dislodged and fallen down too.. all up the little beast took the impact fairly well but ahh what can ya do

havent had time to arange the fixin of it yet.. but will do first thing 2 moro

here she is in all her glory.. cant see the little dent above the headlight in this bit but yeah if it wasnt for the smashed headlight thing i'd still drive it.. but i dunno what water and dead bugs mite do to an unprotected headlight.. so better safe than sorry i suppose

[Smurfn]

Quote:

Originally posted by FLiPSiDE
i wont b able to make it to this weeks meet
some piece of filthy trash put a black recyling bin on the inside lane of the hume hwy just before liverpool where there are few streetlights and i couldnt see it till it went exploding all over my windscreen
suffice to say i'll b getting it fixed first thing 2 moro but it wont be ready by sunday i'd hope by the 24th...

anyways have fun guys

Sorry to hear about "The Garbage Incident", hope the car is repaired quickly.

Bring the clubman, it would be great to meet up with you anyway.

[IML337]

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Originally posted by FLiPSiDE
pie in the sky sounds good.. mooney mooney bridge.. thats the spot (im pretty sure anyways) my favourite car pic was taken.. bejesus now i gotta find it..



beautiful

anyways ok so whats the meet point for this sunday.. any1 ? time etc..

oh and yeah any1's welcome (if u mean by people who dont have thier mini's yet.. but if u do bejesus u're supposed 2 be there )

yeah nice one Wes - that pic is in Sylvania duh!

I'm up for both meets at this stage - sorry I haven't read the forums for a few days! I'm coming from Baulkham Hills so it's not so far for me. I can tell you one thing though, there's no way I'm taking the F3 to brooklyn exit if we're going to Pie in the Sky! Take the berowra exit and hang a right onto the old highway - much more fun

Matthew, I'll try and phone you sometime soon!

Wes, stop being a girl and bring the clubman or something. you could even ride in my car! I'll pick you up from where ever...

Tim

[FLiPSiDE]

yeah well i thought it was tom ugly's bridge when i first saw it
then bla bla every1 sed it was mooney mooney
i've seen both and i still cant decided which one it is
haha

Heidi (my S) is goin in to get fixed and side skirts sprayed on monday yay.. most of it was salvagable and only thing that ****es me off.. outa 1100 im paying for the fixin. almost $250 on the headlight cover.. now im no plastics genius.. but theres not alot 2 a rounded piece of plastic.. other bits on the cars i had 2 get were suprisingly cheap

aanyways i got Leyla (my clubman) outa the garage today.. battery's flat as a tack so i'll b takin her for a drive 2 nite to get her ready.. im no girl.. i'll b there i'll give any S a race 0-40kph :P haha so dont take off on me if we do go cruisin.. she gets to terminal velocity rather slowly

[IML337]

good stuff! Which way will you head up there? We should meet on the way - I have s4matt's number at home, so I'll phone him tomorrow and try and arrange a point someplace on the way for all of us. Thornleigh McDonalds for a 9:30am departure would get us to Pie in the Sky by 10am! Thoughts?

[FLiPSiDE]

no idea where that macca's is so give us a st or cross st whatever
sounds fine 2 me

looks like my missus wont be commin tho she HATES my old mini haha but i think its really cause she'd b 2 lazy to get outa bed

[IML337]

if you weren't such a tightass and got nav, then suzy could tell you the way to get there Actually McDonalds restaurants aren't listed on the CD, which in my opinion is a good thing

It's on pennant hills road, on the left as you head north. When you get to the intersection for the Comenara Parkway, turn left and enter the McDonalds from the back street. If you miss that, and go past the McDonalds, take the next left after it, and then left again and then left into the driveway. Not too hard to find.

It's just past (North of) Patricks night club and Barry Smith Holden and Alto Toyota/BMW.

[GMS COOPER S]

Is that confirmed?......9.30am at Maccas?

[IML337]

YES! If anyone wants my phone number for directions on the day or whatever, PM me. I'll have a few hand held UHF CB's as well - they are very very handy on such occasions Do bring one if you can get your hands on one

If anyone wants to join the convoy between Thronleigh and Pie in the Sky (if Thornleigh is out of the way), the route I'm planning on taking from Thornleigh is up Pennant Hills Rd to the F3, then take the Berowra exit off the F3, hang a right onto the old road, and follow it up to the Pie shop, so make yourself visible somewhere along those sections and you can join in the fun

Cheers,
Tim

[s4matt]

Meet at Mcdonalds Thornleigh at 9,30 am
or Pie in the sky at 10 am
There will be a few Audis there too

[nhodge]

Images here: Sydney MINI Cooper S Meet 10-Nov-02

5 x MINI Cooper S's meet at Pie-in-the-Sky.

A few Audi's popped along, too.

Drove to Wiseman's Ferry via Galston Gorge. I am going to leave the stories to others!

Big surprise on the day was the arrival of 6 original MINIs on a jaunt. One sporting "No BMW Parts Inside". An interesting statement, but we got along nonetheless.

[IML337]

did someone say "stories"?

Well s4matt and I were heading south up the hill climb from the Mooney Mooney Bridge up to the pie shop (it's a superb twisty hillclimb - best part of the old road in my opinion) and Matt was ahead but in the left lane, and I was in the right. We rounded a left hander which went up fairly steeply and then went into a right turn. Unfortunately, in the left lane there was a tow truck, some other cars and bikes, and a highway patrol car, with a whole bunch of people (including a policeman) standing around. It looked like there had been a bike accident or something.

The speed limit was 60, and we were perhaps travelling at a speed that was slightly more enjoyable than that (my DSC was going off all the way around the previous corner ) so Matthew brakes, and moves into the right lane to avoid the cars/trucks/bikes/police officer, and I tried to accelerate around him, which meant that I basically got pushed onto the wrong side of the road. The police officer saw the whole thing and started waving his arms and yelling at us to stop being silly... I was waiting for him to jump in his car and give chase, but fortunately he didn't. I'm glad we parked out of view at the rear of the pie shop though, as said police officer turned up there 15 minutes later, and I'm sure he would have taken the oppurtunity to lecture us had he known the cars we were driving

The run through Galston Gorge was fun, but that road always worries me when there's a bit of traffic... and the piece of video where we moved into the "slow lane" on the freeway, and after a while the speed alert chime can be heard going off, just before Suzy says "exit in six kilometres" and I change into sixth gear. I'm not going to disclose what my speed alert is set at, but you get the idea...

It was fantastic to have met everyone today, and hopefully we can get together even more MINI's for next time (24th November?)

It was also really cool to be driving in a convoy of 5 S's on the highway back toward Hornsby, the cars all looked superb!

I have a whole bunch of images too, though they aren't much different to Nick's, so I'll pick out the different ones and get them up soon.

Tim


oh, and to top off a great day, I just sold (well, gave away) my Audi A3!