BCG Prand Prix Trophy on p3 of newspaper

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- January 19, 2003 at 4:35 am #10127
  DaveF
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  The Furlani track is about to have it’s first Grand Prix. Paul suggested I have a trophy for the 1st place getter (seeing as we’re short on magnums of champagne and hot grid girls).
  
  I have a photo of the trophy on page 3 of the sports section of the newspaper. It’s the latest photo on my track site (see link in my sig).
  
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- January 19, 2003 at 5:09 am #43018
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  you have the sickest track, i would pay to have one as good as yours.
- January 19, 2003 at 7:12 am #43012
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  just interested, even if you dont want to sell the track, what sorta price would you want?
  
  Dave im coming down to hobart to beat u i mean have a race.
  
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- January 19, 2003 at 10:40 pm #43006
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  GJ Dave, what are you going to call the GP? Nice Trophy, take pics etc.. when you have the race:)
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 2:19 am #42996
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  I’m actually thinking of making some track to sell!
  
  2m x 1m board, with about 8-10m of actual track on it. You’ve seen the quality. Keep in mind that to make that track would probably take about a month for me to complete to the same standard.
  
  I’ve seen a basic grey plastic track (no advertising, no start finish line, etc.) sell for $200 US, so I’m not sure how much to ask. I might make it some and put it on eBay.
  
  Anyone care to make an offer now? You could also PM me the offers.
  
  As for the trophy, I’ll be doing an animated gif of it rotating and might dodgey up a little web page for it, with results, photos, some vid snippets, etc. We’ll see what time and work commitments allow.
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 4:00 am #42985
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  stole my idea, i wanted to do that but thought about unless its able to be put in a big container and crap its gonna be a bastard to post
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 2:36 pm #42983
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  Bastard to post or not, it’s money in my hands. =o)
  
  My work team are known as IMB. So, I was going to call the race the “Inaugural IMBernational CharG Grand Prix”. Sound too poxy? Any other suggestions??
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 4:13 pm #42984
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  sounds good to me.
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 5:14 pm #42973
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  dave i want in that race, pleaseeeee? lol
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 5:35 pm #42968
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  I’ll see how this one goes, then maybe I’ll let other people touch it. =o)
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 9:55 pm #42921
  Impreza
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  Name sounds good, I’d stick with it. You may be able to quit your day job if track building takes off:)
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 10:00 pm #42922
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  Plus IMB GP is easy enough to put on the trophy:smiley2:.
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 10:02 pm #42919
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  That’d make a nice change actually.
  
  Can’t see it being my bread and butter (or mortgage and car payments). :sad::)
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 10:10 pm #42916
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  it would be good to have a race on your track sometime Dave but until then we have a track that takes 38.01 seconds to finish one lap with a 2.2 motor. but it would be pretty sweet on your track dude.
  
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- January 20, 2003 at 10:12 pm #42917
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  IMB GP will be good. Especially with the size of the trophy.
  
  Mondo. That sounds awesome. I haven’t timed a lap on my track yet. Should do that one day.
  
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- January 21, 2003 at 1:58 pm #42897
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  yeh dave weve been doing some calculations, we worked out that on the the track with 2.2 motors we were going approx 1.25 metres a second, its pretty quick for only a 2.2 considering corners !
  
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- January 21, 2003 at 2:20 pm #42885
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  True. I’ll try and get some lap times with the 1.0 motors tomorrow.
  
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- January 22, 2003 at 4:45 am #43875
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  we need like a bit charg convention or some thing
  
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- January 22, 2003 at 1:54 pm #42830
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  OOh, and then we cold write it off on tax perhaps. Any really sneaky accountants that can help us all claim this hobby somehow in here?
  
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- January 22, 2003 at 2:52 pm #42816
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  hmmm im in second year accounting at uni ? lol
  
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- January 22, 2003 at 3:11 pm #42806
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  Well then, your new assignment is to work out a way we can all write off going to a mass conferrence/race meet, and buying our bits, and upgrades, and stuff…
  
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- January 22, 2003 at 3:15 pm #42807
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  and then you must organise a Venue, sponsors and plenty of poster girls:D
  also i must be able to fly business class or higher and the hotel must be a minimum of 4 stars. the PIMP couldnt stay in anything less now could I
  
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- January 22, 2003 at 3:45 pm #42803
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  try http://www.bombshells.com.au. They do grid girls for Grand Prix and V8 races. Maybe they’d take 1/64th of the pay for 1/64 scale cars?
  
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- January 22, 2003 at 4:06 pm #42797
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  hehehe maybe they could supply some 1/64 size girls for the grid:shock:,:D,:smiley2:.
- January 22, 2003 at 4:10 pm #42794
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  bwaa-haaaa-haaaaaaa-ha-haaa-haa-haaaaa!
  
  They’d be about this big
  
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- January 22, 2003 at 6:15 pm #42778
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  OOh, and then we cold write it off on tax perhaps. Any really sneaky accountants that can help us all claim this hobby somehow in here?
  
  The theory is pretty simple – in order to claim tax deductions you have to be making money from your “hobby”. If you can demonstrate earning income then you can claim your bits, etc as a cost of earning that money. So basically make some money with your bits and then you can deduct the cost of getting them. But be careful as you have to assign “personal use” percentages to your deductions, etc,etc. If you can prove that your bit activities earn money it’s worth trying to deduct some of the cost of your bits.
- January 22, 2003 at 6:16 pm #42769
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  my GOD what a dorky first post 🙂
- January 22, 2003 at 11:03 pm #42705
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  umm yeh i agree with that guy … my assignment is done … whats my grades ?
  
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- January 23, 2003 at 6:28 pm #42655
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  Dave, better get out there and pedal those tracks, and make sure you keep those receipts;)
  
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- January 23, 2003 at 6:31 pm #42656
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  Yeah, ah… anyone wanna buy a track?
  
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- January 24, 2003 at 7:52 pm #42557
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  i can tell dave is going to have a few sick days if he gets into this track building thing :clown:
  
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- January 24, 2003 at 7:54 pm #42555
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  Dave hasnt been to work since he finished, he’s been hibernating in his room with his BCG and track, he has so far charged 411 times and has been thru 31 sets of AA battery’s my sources tell me he has at least 3000 more batterys so we wont be seeing him until next year or until a convention:D
  
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- January 29, 2003 at 4:59 pm #42195
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  Hahahahaaa. I wish. looks like I’m going to put a 2m x 1m track on eBay. Need to get some cash in and pretty damn quick too.
  
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- January 30, 2003 at 2:22 am #42169
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  lol good one shypo
  
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- March 12, 2003 at 10:18 pm #37360
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  Man, I still get the track out a few times a week. And I want to build more! Got plans for about another 40 sections. But I’ll only do another 2 for now… well, soon.
  
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