Festival of Speed

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The Southern Festival of Speed street race in Dunedin, New Zealand is the third oldest street race in the world. All the other cities in this country seem to have too much trouble hosting a V8 Supercar race for even one year, but Dunedin has done it for over 50!

So i organised a car display for our Skyline club, and another Skyline club and below are piccys etc, would have been more but the camera didn't have much room on it. :(

Unfortunately the pics didn't come out very good, but you get that with some cameras. :)

16 cars turned up (plus one more, a Nissan Laurel, later on) including a guy from Skylines Downunder who bought his R34 GT-R V-Spec II down from Wellington - truely awesome machine! The organiser was really happy with the turnout and said that the SSE/SDU display and the Datsun Club display really stood out from the rest, purely by the quantity and quality of cars!

We also got pretty bad sunburn :D

All pictures available in 1024x768 resolution, just ask if you'd like a bigger pic. :)
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Real or replica, the RS200 still looks awesome in real life!
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The isle of beauty. 8)
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Datsun Club (about half had already left when this pic was taken)
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Cooke Howlison Holden/BMW
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This Porsche was seriously fast!
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If you squint hard enough, you can see 'Gentleman' Jim Richards from Australia over Roger Townshend's (NZ) right shoulder, just above the red and white car.
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M6 goodness *drools*

Yes i was, at times, about two metres or so away from Roger Townsend (NZ), Jim Richards (Aust) and Robbie Frankevic (NZ), but i was too chicken to go say hello to them (well... they were busy talking to people/doing stuff, so i didn't want to interupt :P ).

Original topic here.
 
Sorry I was on my way out when I looked at this thread.

I wish we had as cool of cars over here as you guys do.
 
We have nothing like this in Canada. We had talks of a Cannonball run, but that idea got scraped quick.
Amazing pics, have any better pictures of the RS200 that you could post?
 
There's a few pics on the club's forum, ITR. :)
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And some more pics here if you're able to see this page: Clicky me too

Unfortunately i took that pic of the Datsuns when a few had already left, but i can still give you the big pic if you want it? :)

I didn't take any more RS200 pics sorry, but there are some better ones floating around somewhere i think.
 
I like the first picture of the Eggenberger Sierra Cosworth RS500 - great Texaco colour scheme and an awsome racing car 👍
 
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