PistonHeads, NZ midwinter run! - Details
Discussion
Ok here's the details.... you can take these as set in concrete from now on... if you can make it, then that's great, if not... never mind, there [b]WILL[/b] be others :)
[b]Date:[/b] - Sunday 24th July. Will be going ahead on this date provided the weather is fine. If it's wet, the postponment date will be Sunday 31st July. If it's a little bit damp or the risk of showers, we'll be on, but if it's properly wet, we'll postpone it.
[b]Plan:[/b] - For those close to Auckland City, South Auckland, East Auckland (or practically anywhere but West Auckland). Assemble at the Auckland Domain, just in front/below the Auckland War Memorial Museum at 10am...
Will assemble there in what parking there is available. At around 10:40am we'll depart in convoy, travel through Parnell and onto the NW Motorway to WestGate Shopping Centre (End of the NW motorway, turn left and first left again).
Will reassemble there at around 11:15am and meet with anyone from the West/North who wishes to join in.
We'll all be here until about 11:45, so anyone who is running late can just meet us here if they wish.
From here we'll all travel off in convoy (directions will be given verbally at WestGate) through Parakai out to a lunch-stop and park-up HERE: [url]www.macnut.co.nz/map.htm|http://www.macnut.co.nz/map.htm[/url] at around 12:30-12:45 (ish)
After a lunch stop, there'll be plenty of chance for a natter with some like-minded individuals about all things motoring and possibly even a photo-opportunity or two.
After lunch, we'll press on up the Peninsula over some WONDERFUL driving roads to the top, at South Head, stopping at some appropriate location for another park-up. After that we can all convoy back to Auckland and head our separate ways.
The invitation is open to ANYONE in ANY car. This is an event to just bring people together who want to enjoy driving some fine roads in some fine company with some fine automobiles. Feel free to bring a friend (either as a passenger or in another car) and extend invitations to other car clubs/organisations.
This event is not associated or affiliated with any club, and is just a gathering of like-minded individuals for a spirited drive on some wonderful New Zealand roads. Basically we're just trying to up the profile of the PistonHeads New Zealand motoring forum ( [url]www.pistonheads.com/gassing|http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing[/url] ---> New Zealand ) as a way for such individuals to keep in touch online and indulge in the sort of activity that we all enjoy!
So... put the word out and hopefully we'll see you on the July 24th!
[b]Date:[/b] - Sunday 24th July. Will be going ahead on this date provided the weather is fine. If it's wet, the postponment date will be Sunday 31st July. If it's a little bit damp or the risk of showers, we'll be on, but if it's properly wet, we'll postpone it.
[b]Plan:[/b] - For those close to Auckland City, South Auckland, East Auckland (or practically anywhere but West Auckland). Assemble at the Auckland Domain, just in front/below the Auckland War Memorial Museum at 10am...
Will assemble there in what parking there is available. At around 10:40am we'll depart in convoy, travel through Parnell and onto the NW Motorway to WestGate Shopping Centre (End of the NW motorway, turn left and first left again).
Will reassemble there at around 11:15am and meet with anyone from the West/North who wishes to join in.
We'll all be here until about 11:45, so anyone who is running late can just meet us here if they wish.
From here we'll all travel off in convoy (directions will be given verbally at WestGate) through Parakai out to a lunch-stop and park-up HERE: [url]www.macnut.co.nz/map.htm|http://www.macnut.co.nz/map.htm[/url] at around 12:30-12:45 (ish)
After a lunch stop, there'll be plenty of chance for a natter with some like-minded individuals about all things motoring and possibly even a photo-opportunity or two.
After lunch, we'll press on up the Peninsula over some WONDERFUL driving roads to the top, at South Head, stopping at some appropriate location for another park-up. After that we can all convoy back to Auckland and head our separate ways.
The invitation is open to ANYONE in ANY car. This is an event to just bring people together who want to enjoy driving some fine roads in some fine company with some fine automobiles. Feel free to bring a friend (either as a passenger or in another car) and extend invitations to other car clubs/organisations.
This event is not associated or affiliated with any club, and is just a gathering of like-minded individuals for a spirited drive on some wonderful New Zealand roads. Basically we're just trying to up the profile of the PistonHeads New Zealand motoring forum ( [url]www.pistonheads.com/gassing|http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing[/url] ---> New Zealand ) as a way for such individuals to keep in touch online and indulge in the sort of activity that we all enjoy!
So... put the word out and hopefully we'll see you on the July 24th!
Congrats, sounds great!!! Was just thinking for catering purposes at the nut cafe, I may give them a courtesy call and make sure they still have everything in order. If we have too many numbers I can only suggest to people to bring a flask of soup if we run out of tables etc up there, otherwise people will just have to wait till the next stop further up the road.
kylie said:
I just gave the cafe a call and its all good to go.
Phew, that's a relief!..... I can't go carrying flasks of soup around with me in the Elise... think of all the extra weight that takes up!!!!.... I'm even thinking of spending 3-weeks 24/7 in the sauna to get the car weight down.... the driver's the only fat bit on the car
Great work Kylie, this is going to be a lot of fun
Kiwi XTR2 said:
There will even be some friends up at the Domain to greet the Lotii . . .
I believe this one's name is Colin (Chapman)
Hehe I do some work up at the museum and I saw that yesterday... very cleverly done indeed... at a glance looks realistic..... Can just imagine... if they'd had Lotuses in Jurassic park they'd have all been fine
Yeah I may as well.... Actually Kylie, if you like, if you have a mibile phone I can txt you as well so if needs be you can get an e-mail out to the committee of LCNZ.
But who cares... the weather's going to be lovely, the birds will be singing and I'm sure everything will be wonderful and utopia-like come sunday morning
But who cares... the weather's going to be lovely, the birds will be singing and I'm sure everything will be wonderful and utopia-like come sunday morning
Esprit said:Yep, but we are heading into the Bad-Lands . . . the dark, unforgiving western territory of Rodney District.
But who cares... the weather's going to be lovely, the birds will be singing and I'm sure everything will be wonderful and utopia-like come sunday morning
Bring your passport, 3 days supply of clean drinking water, your Babel Fish (for conversing with the locals), and either a Satellite Phone or two baked-bean tins and a really, really, really long piece of string.
I've go some extra Di-Lithium crystals for my Flux Capacitor so we should be set.
Too much waiting . . . Roll on Sunday
Aaay? bad you say, I am the only bad one out there, oh and my friends Mohammed, Yousif and and - 
Actually been caught up in two Fezza runs out there on two occasions, seen more Astons, quite a few Lambos and Lises cruzin out there than some of the other inner city suburbs. I guess also its close for them to stretch their legs if they are not locals in their own 10 acre peice of landscaped paradise heaven blah blah...
I have a pistol...ok so its a water one, but I could paint it black ??
Actually been caught up in two Fezza runs out there on two occasions, seen more Astons, quite a few Lambos and Lises cruzin out there than some of the other inner city suburbs. I guess also its close for them to stretch their legs if they are not locals in their own 10 acre peice of landscaped paradise heaven blah blah...
I have a pistol...ok so its a water one, but I could paint it black ??
Gassing Station | New Zealand | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff