Wow, what a night. 30 competitors making it the best turnout to a Victorian event (possibly Australia wide) yet.

The location was fantastic other than the cold wind, and for the first event in Victoria for the 2007 season competition is fiercely close already!

The results:

Amateur Street
Amateur Show
Pro Street
Pro Show

Best Presented Vehicle
Most Improved
Judges Choice
Encouragement Award

Huge thanks to all the sponsors, to Phatt Audio for their hosting and hospitality, and the many competitors and spectators for making a great night. Thanks to Danny for taking care of entries, and of course Ness & Robyn for taking care of all the score tallying etc.

Was my pleasure Marc, glad I could help out and sorry I couldn't stay to the end. If you need any help with registrations or what not in any other rounds just let me know, i'm more then willing to help out.

Great turnout too, collecting entries gave me a chance to meet a lot of the new guys, and learn about their cars and have a listen to some.

Congrats to all the winners, and well done to monkey man (Cory) who's system cant sound as bad as he thinks considering the 5th placing. Just fix the phasing issues and your car should be able to stage a lot better.

Thanks to Marc, the judges, the sponsers, and especially Sam and Brett (I guess Joe Wog should get a mention too) at Phatt

See you all at the next round/event/tuning/whatever

'twas a good day everyone.
Great turnout
Of course that meant it did drag on a little long. It was first night event and I quite liked the atmosphere this created, but it would have been good to be out of there a couple hours earlier.

Thanks to judges, organisers, sponsors - got some good ideas from Rob and Lachie. And once again plenty of motivation to keep in it all after seeing many of those cars.
So after all that, I think I've made a successful return to the comps on many levels.

-jez

Was a great day. glad to know my sweat over the last few months seems to be for the better.

see you all next round

thanks to all the organising/judging/catering teams and Phatt for a good (although breezy) venue. At least we had plenty of parking for everybody - many many more competitors then I expected to see.

Was a great day, even if it was cold! I got some great feedback from the judges (Bruce and Andrew), so hopefully next round there'll be an improvement. That being said, I'm STOKED with my 4th place, after not doing so well last year! Thanks to all management/organisers/judges - must have been hard for you guys, it being the first comp, and all of us spread from one end of Heland Place to the other ROFL

Great turn out guys!
Good to see the regulars as well as a few new guys. Some interesting changes have been made by a lot of competitors in the off season!

Big thanks to Phatt for suppling the venue, to the sponsors for helping make season '07 happen and most importantly HUGE thanks to all you competitors for turning up even in the rain and cold and making this meet a huge success!

Couldnt believe how many cars were in Pro Street! huge numbers which is good to see! Would like to see a few more in Am Show though

Keep up the good work guys!

If I could go into Am Show, I would....

What a great start to 2007!

The weather was looking pretty average just a couple of hours before the comp was due to start with black clouds and heavy rain .... but it cleared up in time for the start so none of us got wet .... although it was a bit on the cool side.

As mentioned a huge turn out of competitors which was great to see.

I liked how we didn't need to shuffle cars into the "Judging Bays" as in previous years .... instead the judges moving from car to car seemed to work a treat .... so much less hassle.

Was great to catch up with everybody again after such a long time

A big thank you to all the sponsors, judges, helpers, organisers, fellow competitors and also Phatt Audio Concepts for hosting the event.

Can't wait for the next round

I only have one quote from the night/

"Its not DNF.. its USB"

was a good day,plenty of space to get your car away from the db drag area, very well organised event .............cors

had a great time guys, and thanks to the phatt boys, all the organisers and the judges.
as already mentioned, it was a great turn-out with some very stiff competition.
having heard alans car and being extremely impressed (and jealous) i will need to listen to adam's car now i think.
plenty of work to be done for next round.

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Great night guys!

Geeze I didnt realise there were 10 cars in Pro Street!

Shaping up to be a great season. Shouts to the sponsors, organisers, judges, competitors, Phatt, Scorers, pizza man, poker players, fart machine, db drags, and so on and so forth...

had a great time. Give me lots of ideas

congrats and well done to all competitors.

i was disappointed not to be able to attend - had to work!

though my car still only runs the stock system. still woulda beaten you all. ...not.

hope to catch up next time.

thought i'd finally post up seeing i've got time on my hands as i had a busy day after the comp.. lol..

what can i say.. first comp of the 2007 and was it a big turnout.. i feel that caasq (or future measq?) working with dbdrag really gets the numbers... but was a good day overall, altho a little on the freezing side.. but hey.. its melbourne.. 4 seasons in 1 day..
adam (nemesis) and i copped major rain on the way down, only to end up with clearish skies and sun.. and cold wind..

big thanks to the boys at Phatt for providing the venue, the bbq, and the fart machine which received many crack ups.. lol..
also thanks to the sponsors for getting behind the new season.. and the competitors for making it what it is today... altho i am not competing this year.. as my current setup isnt what i want.. what i want is in progress and might urge me to compete again.. with a different focus.. but am show is lacking any real show.. well done to chris for battling the weather conditions to do the full show setup.. good effort.. was a disapointment not seeing all show cars opened up in full show form.. would that be because of the new rules? i'd better look..

the cold was worth battling, as the day was very good.. altho long.. i got home at 2am.. but was worth it.. cant wait for the next one..

yeah it was a good nite.
thanks to everyone who attended/sponsered/PHATT and most of all kylies cookies!

just remembered..

watchin that DD of yours was crazy jonesy.. i'll sort thru my pics and put up the good ones... out of 170-odd.. oh.. and 1 vid..

well it was my first comp since the wagga incident (so really its since qualifit 2005, yep its taken that long to build this car) and was great to catch up with a few of the old blokes, and meet a few new ones
was a great event, very long obviously but with that many cars no wonder, the more the merrier really but i was like a zombie by 1am
still can't believe the placing, but i guess that just means everyone will overtake me next round, haha. though my work is complete considering Bruce finally called it 'OK' so i'm happy

yeah I guess it did sound ok Adam lol
man I was so tired when I got home, I fell into bed and was out for the count. Woke up and rushed to work, only to have my boss crack up...guess who forgot to change the time on bloody clocks lol
I had a great day and was really impressed with how well all the am street guys and gals where doing....thats gunna be a tight contest all season. the cars where really good...well ok lol
peace
Punky

Thanks to all!

Brady/Fudd/Kirk - I just got home now since leaving Phatt @ 11pm on Saturday night. Yes I have been out (read: not slept) the whole time So much for having a quiet night.

Bahaha! Ill remember that next time you ask if Im keen to go out...

Somehow 'Yeah, ok, I'll drop it off to you..but then I'm going home" turned into "2 more Vodka Redbulls thanks"

And today I look like this

Whoa whos hating life today!

well i had a good night!

was an awsome atmosphere with all the cars, people and just everthing that was going on!

good to catch up with some of the older crew too!

and big congrats to Adam also, was good to see you back up there! im dissapointed i didnt get to hear your car now

Funny... cause on Saturday you looked like you should have been like that too!

EDIT: 'cause I dont know what day it is...

Does anyone know, what the score for first place and second place in amateur street?



or if Adam and Alan can give me some idea, much appreciate it



cheers...

i dunno about alan, but my thing has always been laid back and smmmooooth tuning wise - oh and you dont need a sub, just good mid's - my score was 101/125 (SQ section) so honestly lots of improvement yet

A BIG thank u to all who showed even though the weather looked a little melbournish!
Even though i judged all day/night, i had a great time seeing so many people supporting CAA, some of the cars/vans sounded amazing should b an interesting year in all classes......

DAIM Adam! I was only 4 points behind you man!

*Starts rubbing hands together for next round*

ROFL

Interesting.

My SQ was 96/125 and came 7th, so this musta been a seriously tight comp!

Assuming everyone above me had full points for safety, then there must be an equal placing up there somewhere...



(Congrats Adam n Alan by the way!)

My score was 100/125 for the SQ section.



Thanks jbs

There was an equal placing .... Adam & I both scored 110/135

I got full points for safety where Adam missed by one point .... but won on countback because he scored an extra point in his SQ section.

Looks like this class is off to a very close start

I got 95/125 for SQ, but a lowly 4/10 for safety... Damn that fire extinguisher!

sounds like a great start to the season fellas. congrats alan and adam. all all other competitors. if QLD and NSW have a good season like you guys/gals appear to be starting. its gonig to make for an awesome year. im going to finals whether i am allowed to compete or not. this is going to be awesome.

No novice competitors?

Only 1.

looks like i missed out big time

sounds like it was great

the girls were asking after you blanket... hope you make it to the next one

x2

Hey guy's bit of a late reply but...



Was a great turn out, it's a shame I couldn't stick around for long, but got my car judged non-the-less, it was a great turn out with great numbers, a big thanks to Phatt for hosting the event, and the bbq thanks to the judges for all the feedback and man there was quiet a few people in pro show thats for sure!



Thanks to Marc and all of the orginizers for making things run smoothly, and thanks to the photographer (Damo). It was good catching up with people again its been a while, congratulations to all the winners/runnerups great efforts indeed and also to Chris who set up that big display- well deserved win!



I look foward to the next round, hopefuly I can address some of the issues with the feedback I got from the judges and get up to a competitive level, see you all next round.

just wanted to let everyone know that saturday comp is excellent, numbers deffinatly showed its very well liked.
Also the SPL there(with CAASQ) is a great idea, those mic officials have a good time and it rubs off on all of us,very comical and professional ...........cors

They were asking after BLANKET or they were asking for "a Blanket"?



OR were they asking for BLANKET to be their Blanket?

It was so cold, I ended up wearing a blanket...






"It's a bird, it's a plane, no, its... Playboyman!"

Very good turnout, great day/night/afternoon. Good to see so many of you guys doing so well.

I'm sure they were asking for Blanket (capital B) - they say he's funny (Impressions from Wagga).

i know i've been slack.. but i have filtered the 190-odd pics i took of the day.. i'll sorth thru the good ones and add them to a gallery for viewing pleasure..

this thread should be opened with some pics like the NSW one was and then the majority could be added?................cors

I would like to thank, Marc, Sam and Phatt boys and many other (which i can't remember their name at moment)

You guys Rock!!

Thanks

pics?.......cors

ok.. did i hear pics?

yes.. i've FINALLY got around to sorting thru my 180 pics and hosting the good ones..

linky to gallery here

but some good ones..


^^^ Phatt by night



^^^ Mmmmm.. Rob D'Angelo's install.. got bootspace?



^^^ Nice grilles!


^^^ audi boot by day


^^^ audi boot by night

i have full high res pics (2048x1536) for those wanting them, including awards altho some were blurry..

Love the Phatt by night pic Damo...

EDIT: http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w25/Dam...23_filtered.jpg
Yep... sure is my ugly mug!