The F3 from Sydney to Newcastle is rarely closed. Today it has been repeatedly opened and closed all day due to a fire front and spot fires.Tomorrow the conditions are expected to worsen. It's not nice to be in an oval on a thirty degree day let alone when you're surrounded by fire.

Sam and I have decided it is safer if we reschedule the Ovals Only Cruise.

Imagine if most of Sydney and Newcastle's drivavle ovals got incinerated all in one go!

It's a real bummer. I know people from club veedub, flat four and others would have come if not for the fires. Next time Sam and I are confident we will have at least a dozen ovals and a lot of other volkswagens.

CYA, CT

Thats a rear bummer, went out and cleaned the Speedster of empty beer bottles and everything.....

Speedster , I have to give the Oval a run , so will still go to Pennant Hills Mc Donalds at 9am. I hope there will be some others but got on here too late to check.
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- Sorry about those Beer bottles - after the first one I dont know where the other ones ended up. Hope I didnt mark the engine louvres " cracking open those long necks"

That's good and bad news for me as I just broke my clutch cable this afternoon and haven't got a reasonable spare. Need a new one and another as a good spare.

I will be still going into the foreshore but probably in the wife ride, at least if it's thirty its aircon and tinted so the bronze buggers in the back won't be complaining.

I hear a couple of others will be going into the forshore anyhow and their always is cruisers in there going around and around and around. If the locals still want to go in I'll see you all there. We hope to get in there by about 1430 hours and will stay for about an hour. Just listen out for the thumping coming from a yellow Oval (Sam) as I'll be somewhere around there.

the new subs definetly were pumping sunday afternoon bronze, pity u couldnt make it in...
speedster, did u watch the james dean movie on ABC last night, made me really want a car like urs

Yeah I did see that .:thumb....The car is a Vintage Spyder owned by a guy in CA called Rhino??? It has a 2.4 ltr now with turbo (with swing axle!). He's trying to make the most authentic James Dean replica.....goes on about having the correct dirt from 1950..whatever in the original style carpet and all that sort of stuff. He hates it when I remind him "it's not real...OK". hehehe
It does have the required amount of shtick though.

can u still get replicas made like ur 356, and how much would one cost?
how much r second hand replicas, i mean just with like standard 1600 motors or watever, nothing fancy...

VWFOOL....I was up in Newey last Sunday in the Speedster (last minute decision to go) and was amazed at the amount VWs up there, bay windows esp. Had lunch at Meriweather Pub (spell), not a bad spot for a feed and a quiet one. Did the cruz along the foreshore, checked out the douff- douff cars with the rubberband tyres and airbrushed hoods etc. Nice day, pity the ovals cruz was off...but next time.:thumb
Remember that 356 replica that went on ebay.com.au (Melb) a while ago for $10K, well I think it's in "Unique Cars" mag this month for $23.5K.

[Edited on 18-12-2002 by speedster356]

Re Replica 356 in Unique Cars .

Pete, is that so. Theres a huge surprize for me. Have to buy a copy and have a look see.