The Vic roadtrip to adelaide.....

EFFalcon · 02-10-2005, 11:16 PM

Due to a house warming party of XRChic and Cobra, I decided i'd go for a weekend to SA, after searching for a partner in crime, Neb took up my offer to tag along.

while the trip wasnt as doomed as the recent SA road trip to melb, we had a great time

to set something straight, my EF was flawless (for once) and costed a total of $110 in LPG. (not bad considering it was close to 60cpl!!!)

so anyway!

arriving there at 6pm on friday evening, we awaiting the cruise at 9pm..
a massive thanks to montyV8 for planning the cruise, wasnt a bad turnout at all and i was really glad to meet most of the SA people in face finally.
The cruise was hillarious, some may recall the expressway and more importantly the VT full of leb's! dammit i want my turbo!
the one and only pic i got of the cruise line up (few cars not in pic)

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a very entertaining evenin ended at 4am after taking Barry_v's ZC fairlane out for a cruise, a classy beast it is, but i don't recommend sitting in the back too long, you'll come out lop sided.

a pic of the ZC :P

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Saturday was the day of the House warming party, myself, neb, montyv8, monty's wife, walkinshaw, barry_v packed into 2 cars and hooned around at 5pm, with tonnes of food supplied by XRchic and Cobra, it kept everyone happy (cheese cake anyone!)
seriously... there was loads of food.. but anyway!

we drove back today and i've decided i'm deffinately going back.
hopefully we'll be able to get a few people to come over too

I'd just like to extend a VERY big thanks to Walkinshaw for shackin us up for the 2 nights, it was very much appreciated!
also thanks to phil and barry for the entertainment :P
i was never bored!
and finally thanks to Ben for comin with me, the 8 hour drives woulda been shockin otherwise :/

OH!
and said town sign is still available, too much traffic ;)

CruizinEB · 02-10-2005, 11:21 PM

looks like you guys get good numbers there,i just love the classics

InitialD · 02-10-2005, 11:22 PM

Said Town Sign is still there? Wooo still time to get it aye Psycho chicken :P

Sounded like it was a good weekend john.

02-10-2005, 11:26 PM

sounded like fun John

you know i would have been up for the trip if i didnt have to work on friday :P and damn barry's ZC is mint!!!!!!needs lowering but :P

EFFalcon · 02-10-2005, 11:29 PM

the ZC gets loads of looks and it sounds awesome!
deffinately need a few more people to come next time.

LUXO_8 · 02-10-2005, 11:30 PM

sounds like fun.... im coming next time!

neb · 03-10-2005, 12:04 AM

I'd just like to say I had a great time too, big thanks to Dan (Walkinshaw) for letting us stay at his place (probably the best accommodation in adelaide, got treated like kings!)

Also a few things I learnt on the weekend:

1. Adelaide has more cops than Melbourne does
2. Adelaide light poles/power line poles are made out of 2 steel beams with concrete inbetween them
3. Most of their street lights are yellow (purposely not faded)
4. Adelaide e-series drivers are hoons
5. They have BBQs for every meal
6. Barry's ZC is an awesome cruise car
7. Walkinshaw needs a 5speed badly
8. The hill coming into adelaide is heaps of fun
9. Adelaide's only freeway is called the expressway and only goes one way
10. All of the other streets are 60 speed limited
11. Adelaide's main city street's are similar to Melbourne's chapel street
12. Coopers is good!
13. Farmers Union iced coffee is good!
14. Animals are attracted to John's car (hit a magpie on the way to Adelaide, ran over a lizard on the way back to Melbourne, and thousands of bugs coated over his front bar and windscreen)
15. Adelaide's peak hour traffic is Melbourne's normal traffic
16. I'm better at pool then South Australians :P

Yeah that's all I can think of at the moment, was a great weekend was good to meet all the SA guys. Will be happy to come back again soon!

EFFalcon · 03-10-2005, 12:07 AM

Well put neb.
and don't forget the murder scene we went past.
and the countless broken down EA/EB's we seen on the hills.
the commodores are all driven by tools.
brocky's crazy

PULLY6 · 03-10-2005, 02:06 AM

NOT FAIR! I wanted to catch up with you guys - I came to jaq's at 2am, but it had all wound down by then... boo!

Next time ay! Glad you guys had a good trip.

Walkinshaw · 03-10-2005, 04:15 AM

Good to see you guys got back in one piece. If it wasnt 4am (again) I'd write some more but all i can think of is bed!

You're wellcome back anytime guys, pleasure having you.

CruizinEB · 03-10-2005, 05:33 AM

you think thats late i'm still up lol

Rmyers · 03-10-2005, 06:19 AM

I would have gone up aswell but i had a 21st friday night, another BBQ/party saturday night and my neices christening on sunday :/ Every other weekend i have absolutely nothing to do but for some reason everything intersercted with this one :P Ah well next time (should hopefully have the $h!tbox back on the road by then)...

oneredED · 03-10-2005, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neb

1. Adelaide has more cops than Melbourne does
2. Adelaide light poles/power line poles are made out of 2 steel beams with concrete inbetween them
3. Most of their street lights are yellow (purposely not faded)
4. Adelaide e-series drivers are hoons
5. They have BBQs for every meal
6. Barry's ZC is an awesome cruise car
7. Walkinshaw needs a 5speed badly
8. The hill coming into adelaide is heaps of fun
9. Adelaide's only freeway is called the expressway and only goes one way
10. All of the other streets are 60 speed limited
11. Adelaide's main city street's are similar to Melbourne's chapel street
12. Coopers is good!
13. Farmers Union iced coffee is good!
14. Animals are attracted to John's car (hit a magpie on the way to Adelaide, ran over a lizard on the way back to Melbourne, and thousands of bugs coated over his front bar and windscreen)
15. Adelaide's peak hour traffic is Melbourne's normal traffic
16. I'm better at pool then South Australians

Haha, you learnt well Ben ;) Just a couple more things for you haha...
1. Yes there is more of a police presence, but they have a tolerence of around 10% over there still rather than our 3km/h...
2. Yes, them weird power poles are called "stobie" poles, as opposed to power or light poles. I bag the crap out of my SA friends when they come to Melbourne about it; i'm constantly correcting them saying "It's not a bloody STOBIE pole, it's a POWER pole!"

I learnt stuff over there too, like the fact that SA drivers are so laid back that if you overtake someone coz they're going too slow, they get annoyed. And should you brake any harder than putting a feather on the brakes, they get extremely shirty, as opposed to melbourne where it seems it's the norm to slam the anchors on randomly!
Oh, and how bad are those big yellow lumps on the road?! You know the ones, they usually cover the cross hatched white line bit before you enter a turning lane... You wouldn't want to hit one accidently, they're huge!

DOC · 03-10-2005, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oneredED

Oh, and how bad are those big yellow lumps on the road?! You know the ones, they usually cover the cross hatched white line bit before you enter a turning lane... You wouldn't want to hit one accidently, they're huge!

We installed those especially for when the Vics come over, this allows us to cruise at slow speeds without vics trying to overtake us at these points, thus having to avoid hitting the brakes harder than a feather.

all pretty laid back really.

NZ · 03-10-2005, 09:58 AM

Next time you guys should go the long way and call in and pick me up to!

24CIT · 03-10-2005, 10:09 AM

sounds like it was an unreal trip! shame i missed it. might be ble to tag along next time!

neb · 03-10-2005, 10:23 AM

17. the bathroom door lock at Dan's place is evil
18. car running on lpg is CHEAP could drive to adelaide and back 3 times would cost around the same as my car driving there and back once
19. S.A. has an area with streets with pirate names? reminds me of 'birdsville' in hoppers crossing all of the streets are named after birds
20. Chris can't drive

EFFalcon · 03-10-2005, 11:49 AM

Bwahahahaha @ ben getting locked in the bathroom.

21. Chris is lazy and still doesn't have his bodykit fitted.
22. Chris ran himself over while unloading NC from trailer (speculation at this point)
23. Roads when you hit SA trick you into thinking they have great roads..... then u realise you might have a puncture.

PULLY6 · 03-10-2005, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oneredED

Oh, and how bad are those big yellow lumps on the road?! You know the ones, they usually cover the cross hatched white line bit before you enter a turning lane... You wouldn't want to hit one accidently, they're huge!

They're specially designed to make your exhaust systematically louder every time you hit one.

Trucks like to flick them into your windscreen too.

Kaddis · 03-10-2005, 03:03 PM

that express way in adelaide is retarded!! and what about those arrester beds(or whatever there called) coming into adelaide??

i was suprised how NOT busy it is there in peak hour!

i'd love to drive back there again sometime but with petrol gettin expensive it's a bit hard!

EFFalcon · 03-10-2005, 03:06 PM

yeah, its tempting to test out those arrester beds :P

we arrived in adelaide at 5:30... and there was stuff all traffic.

Barry_v · 03-10-2005, 04:34 PM

did you like the tunnel? its worth driving to adelaide just to hear your car go through it ay.

PULLY6 · 03-10-2005, 04:54 PM

I've seen a couple of cars in those arrester beds, and seen a truck use one for emergency braking. Trust me - they're worth having!

A truck with no brakes wouldn't stop until the city - its all downhill from glen osmond to the city.

EFFalcon · 03-10-2005, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PULLY6

A truck with no brakes wouldn't stop until the city - its all downhill from glen osmond to the city.

I'm sure thats happened before too.... and i'd like to see it .
lol!

EDclass · 03-10-2005, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neb

I'd just like to say I had a great time too, big thanks to Dan (Walkinshaw) for letting us stay at his place (probably the best accommodation in adelaide, got treated like kings!)

Also a few things I learnt on the weekend:

1. Adelaide has more cops than Melbourne does
2. Adelaide light poles/power line poles are made out of 2 steel beams with concrete inbetween them
3. Most of their street lights are yellow (purposely not faded)
4. Adelaide e-series drivers are hoons
5. They have BBQs for every meal
6. Barry's ZC is an awesome cruise car
7. Walkinshaw needs a 5speed badly
8. The hill coming into adelaide is heaps of fun
9. Adelaide's only freeway is called the expressway and only goes one way
10. All of the other streets are 60 speed limited
11. Adelaide's main city street's are similar to Melbourne's chapel street
12. Coopers is good!
13. Farmers Union iced coffee is good!
14. Animals are attracted to John's car (hit a magpie on the way to Adelaide, ran over a lizard on the way back to Melbourne, and thousands of bugs coated over his front bar and windscreen)
15. Adelaide's peak hour traffic is Melbourne's normal traffic
16. I'm better at pool then South Australians :P

Yeah that's all I can think of at the moment, was a great weekend was good to meet all the SA guys. Will be happy to come back again soon!

i love the list of discoveries, you must have peen paying attention while you were here. Its lucky i didnt hit that magpie, anyting i collect gets wedged under my sunvisor lol.
And that freeway really is , the dam thing is always going in the wrong direction. Next time somebody comes over, ill have to get myself out of work and come say gday.
Its great you guys had a good time!

Mickus · 03-10-2005, 09:42 PM

Sounds like you dudes had an awesome time! Got any more pics to put up?
I'm thinking of going over to adelaide and buying an awesome EB and driving it back. No Gas though. and I live in Bendigo :P how much do you reckon it will cost me? How long does it take to get back from there?

EFFalcon · 03-10-2005, 09:57 PM

we drove from werribee to athelstone in adelaide in about 7.5 hours.

i don't have any more pics as my camera died after those couple.
i wish i had more but oh well.

i'll go back next time with way more

oneredED · 03-10-2005, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DOC

We installed those especially for when the Vics come over, this allows us to cruise at slow speeds without vics trying to overtake us at these points, thus having to avoid hitting the brakes harder than a feather.

all pretty laid back really.

Hey don't get me wrong, i much prefer driving over in adelaide than in melbourne!

/me hides as he has now alienated himself from both Vic and SA...

-jjM- · 03-10-2005, 11:47 PM

hell im in for a SA cruise, just let me convert to gas :P or be a hilly billy n steal fuel lol

4.9 EF Futura · 04-10-2005, 10:24 AM

I think you guys have summed up SA pretty well there. A few points worthy of noting tho:

-The only reason you would have seen so many police is because of the long weekend...
-Stobie poles are solely responsible for the low population down here and are responsible for more deaths than our many serial killers.
-Dont ever head south on the expressway on a weekday morning ;)
-The road into Adelaide is also a freeway (aouth eastern freeway)...
-The yellow lumps in the middle of the road can be removed to allow a correct line through a frequently used corner ;)
- Farmers Union Iced Coffee is made by a victorian company