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nice video tim.. funny how video doesnt show justice to the speeds and trickieness of the track.. seems just went for a sunday drive.. lol

 

and ur pics and leaving ur car space around it on ur shots looks real good.. more thought out than i had done which for me is unusual usually i always try for best shot but, shooting car shots i guess is different than shooting people in shots.. with people shots u wanna get the whole scene in the shot , in a nature shot u want to get as much as the landscape as possible.. but i gotta practice that with cars its a single object ur trying to capture.. i gotta start thinking of a car shot as a couple's shot holding hands and they wanna be able to treasure that picture.. i gotta do same with car shots..



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What an awesome time and great weather (especially compared to last year!!!) Thanks to everyone who came out, and I know a few of you had some long drives!!! I'll post some of my fav's, the rest is and my Facebook page, and I also have some video too!!









Also stopped at a couple places on our way back along the Finger Lakes





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Is it just the video? Or is your car having issues?

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I hope it's not the car but what were you questioning?

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Great pics Tim, I wish we could have stayed longer, but we needed to pick up the stuff at the interior guy's shop before he left.

We had a great time. Glad to see we had better weather than last year, plus we had more members join us as well as friends from other sites. Not sure if we can top the turn out next year, but I'm hoping!!!!

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I hope it's not the car but what were you questioning?


 the car didn't sound so healthy in the video, or it could just be bad sound quality



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You probably were hearing my gauge cluster. My speedo/odometer is making noise lol

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Awesome pictures! wish we knew you were staying to take pics, we would have invited you up to the lake in Geneva with Amanda Keane and me for more pics!

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great pics Tim


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Awesome pictures! wish we knew you were staying to take pics, we would have invited you up to the lake in Geneva with Amanda Keane and me for more pics!





Wife wanted to stop at a couple Wineries.. I said I fine, I'll take pics lol

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Wish we didn't have to boogie home as well, It would have been fun to get some pics

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Nice!! Wish I could of made it. Must of been great not riding in thick fog, precipitation and 37 degrees like last year!!


 missed not seeing u and ur monte as well.. also no cops in sight once left thruway to watkins and again none til back on thruway.. strange as that is

but one thing fog had going for itself was it gave much better shots.. all u would see is ur car in the fog in the picture, unlike this year everyone behind u was in ur shot



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Nice!! Wish I could of made it. Must of been great not riding in thick fog, precipitation and 37 degrees like last year!!

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Wishes you could have made it too Matt

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looks nice compareing last yrs and this years.. check page 2 under pics and gathering and the trip in april of last yr for the glenn pics and compare them t this years

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Jon, Good point! Next year will will all have to remember to hang back on the first lap so the pictures come out without the group behind.

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I don't know I like having the other cars behind... Makes me thinking I'm winning lmao.

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Great pics.

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I actually liked having everyone in the first shot, my second one there wasn't much.

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great pics Jon!

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sucks tims car not in the gruop shot.. can just barley see front corner of his car in pic 2 above the chevy pick-ips mirror lolthe footage from the guy oi

i gotta really get video camera.. im dieing to see the footage from the guy in the MR-2.. hopeing it will show the "speed" we took the corners..

 

us 3 6th/7th gens where going strong.. i was surprised in the shots how close everyone behind us was.. i guess we wherent setting a fast enough pace then lol



-- Edited by hope4anarchy99 on Friday 26th of April 2013 12:38:36 PM



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well its nice they have camera in 2 different spots.. a gruop shot like the first 2 are nice since it was a gruop shot of guys u know... but if u went solo would suck having some dude in ur shot behind u unless its like a high end super sports car lol...they should have a camera set up at finish line cause that straight away everyone opens up and therefore gives enough space for a solo shot plus its finish line with bridge over head would look nice.. i mean ur paying over 35 bucks for 4 dinky shots when 2 shots are copies just a .10 slower than first capture.. so in all paying 35 bucks for 2 shots.. and that is only if u go fast enough according to the guy .. he stated faster u go more shots u have.. dont know if that each person going fast or a whole gruop faster they go around track quicker they can get more back on track and keep line moving.. but last year gruop was stopped alot and i still had 4 pics so maybe the guy just saying crap lol.. also this years plastic memory chip falls aprt to easy and is like china quality unlike last years true memory stick that is worth paying pics for since u can reuse it and much more durable... if they charge u 35 bucks plus tax and get a free memory holder thingy..well how else ur gonna get ur pics to bring home duh.. of course they gotta give u one.. but heres idea open winners circle as part of deal on buying ur pics.. those guys making tons cash selling us pics of our own cars lol..

one thing sucked thou i had opened sun roof 2nd lap as soon as i recalled about how it looked beter in shots of other guys last year.. but lol since they ended up taking pics in first lap it was to late lol..heck if they taking shots first lap why not take pics for all 3 laps.. just saying not like they wasteing film its all digital..

but yea those last 2 shots came out pretty nice .. nice location of the hills in background and heck i should send my pic to the Cheez-It company for advertisement lol..

i was so happy we got to open up pretty good this year with speeds.. pace truck was only in front of the silver SUV in front of rest of us (dont know where that SUV came from thou?) , but i never saw the pace truck at all ecept first lap in the back where we stopped last year... im wondering if u go as a gruop they allow faster laps? cause at no time we kept to the 55 mph limit lol... now that would be cool to see a speed trap and it gets posted on ur pic when ur pic of the car is taken lol..

all in all had great time just pointing out some things they can upgrade when ur paying 25 to get on track and another 35 plus tax for couple pics over 60 bucks u shuld be able to get something besides 3 laps lol.. heck hand a window decal to each car that goes on track a s a specila limited sticker showing u drove on the track.. and not one that anyone can buy at the booth either..



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well its nice they have camera in 2 different spots.. a gruop shot like the first 2 are nice since it was a gruop shot of guys u know... but if u went solo would suck having some dude in ur shot behind u unless its like a high end super sports car lol...they should have a camera set up at finish line cause that straight away everyone opens up and therefore gives enough space for a solo shot plus its finish line with bridge over head would look nice.. i mean ur paying over 35 bucks for 4 dinky shots when 2 shots are copies just a .10 slower than first capture.. so in all paying 35 bucks for 2 shots.. and that is only if u go fast enough according to the guy .. he stated faster u go more shots u have.. dont know if that each person going fast or a whole gruop faster they go around track quicker they can get more back on track and keep line moving.. but last year gruop was stopped alot and i still had 4 pics so maybe the guy just saying crap lol.. also this years plastic memory chip falls aprt to easy and is like china quality unlike last years true memory stick that is worth paying pics for since u can reuse it and much more durable... if they charge u 35 bucks plus tax and get a free memory holder thingy..well how else ur gonna get ur pics to bring home duh.. of course they gotta give u one.. but heres idea open winners circle as part of deal on buying ur pics.. those guys making tons cash selling us pics of our own cars lol..

one thing sucked thou i had opened sun roof 2nd lap as soon as i recalled about how it looked beter in shots of other guys last year.. but lol since they ended up taking pics in first lap it was to late lol..heck if they taking shots first lap why not take pics for all 3 laps.. just saying not like they wasteing film its all digital..

but yea those last 2 shots came out pretty nice .. nice location of the hills in background and heck i should send my pic to the Cheez-It company for advertisement lol..

i was so happy we got to open up pretty good this year with speeds.. pace truck was only in front of the silver SUV in front of rest of us (dont know where that SUV came from thou?) , but i never saw the pace truck at all ecept first lap in the back where we stopped last year... im wondering if u go as a gruop they allow faster laps? cause at no time we kept to the 55 mph limit lol... now that would be cool to see a speed trap and it gets posted on ur pic when ur pic of the car is taken lol..

all in all had great time just pointing out some things they can upgrade when ur paying 25 to get on track and another 35 plus tax for couple pics over 60 bucks u shuld be able to get something besides 3 laps lol.. heck hand a window decal to each car that goes on track a s a specila limited sticker showing u drove on the track.. and not one that anyone can buy at the booth either..

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Here is the video Darren took http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCa8ac5sqy4



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hope4anarchy99 wrote:

sucks tims car not in the gruop shot.. can just barley see front corner of his car in pic 2 above the chevy pick-ips mirror lolthe footage from the guy oi

i gotta really get video camera.. im dieing to see the footage from the guy in the MR-2.. hopeing it will show the "speed" we took the corners..

 

us 3 6th/7th gens where going strong.. i was surprised in the shots how close everyone behind us was.. i guess we wherent setting a fast enough pace then lol



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probably didn't see me, but on the third lap I was sneaking up on everyone...



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lmfao Tim....

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WOW Just wow on the other hand nice pics

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hope4anarchy99 wrote:

 

sucks tims car not in the gruop shot.. can just barley see front corner of his car in pic 2 above the chevy pick-ips mirror lolthe footage from the guy oi

i gotta really get video camera.. im dieing to see the footage from the guy in the MR-2.. hopeing it will show the "speed" we took the corners..

 

us 3 6th/7th gens where going strong.. i was surprised in the shots how close everyone behind us was.. i guess we wherent setting a fast enough pace then lol



-- Edited by hope4anarchy99 on Friday 26th of April 2013 12:38:36 PM



-- Edited by hope4anarchy99 on Friday 26th of April 2013 12:39:05 PM

 



probably didn't see me, but on the third lap I was sneaking up on everyone...


 

lol.. hey i cant blame u man.. u did have ur family in ur car.. how did ur car feel after all ur work on her and ur new size/style tires compared to last yrs?

those 3 laps came quick lol.. how does a car like urs with rear wheel drive handle on a road course? with me i felt like specially with the new tires i just got 2 days before, with front wheel drive i can really drive into each corner, where as with u ur car would end up whipping around if u went into the corners like i do.. u probally have to take more of a outer curve, right?



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sweeettt .. thanks man for gettting that link...lol.. i guess we (the 3 6th/7th gen) did leave u guys behind couple times.. sorry... next time try and keep up with us up front ... again man thanks for getting his link and whoever or whenver someone can tell him thanks for filming..



lololol.. wow just noticed that... for sec there i thought i was wrong...

Tim u cant cheat like that lol... but same time dude how the heck did u dube that picture lol... lolol.. dude wtf...lol.. wow how i miss that til somehow just clicked in head hey did i place tim wrong ?? wait why he only guy in his own lane lol.. wait wtf he do how he do it what the .. lol

im gonna have to keep eye on u next year lol

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sweeettt .. thanks man for gettting that link...lol.. i guess we (the 3 6th/7th gen) did leave u guys behind couple times.. sorry... next time try and keep up with us up front ...




You do understand that

1.) this was just a cruise around the track, and had we been aloud to pass the results would have been different.

b.) some of us laid back so we can have a longer faster run with no cars in front of us.

3.) If you think fwd is better then rwd on this track, tell me again how many Nascar Drivers are running fwd?

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my eyes hurt

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I'm Always last, but hopefully never least, my pics from the day:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.411279805637691.1073741830.308722465893426&type=1&l=55363be585

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Sweet pics and videos!

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ty joe great pics

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Montess2k wrote:

I'm Always last, but hopefully never least, my pics from the day:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.411279805637691.1073741830.308722465893426&type=1&l=55363be585

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 very nice shots man..



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Great shots Joe!!! That one you got of Matt's car in front of the old building was simply awesome!!!!

Been having computer issues, [as well as time issues] so I haven't been able to upload my pics. Hopefully I will get them up soon.

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