It seems like I only post about two things in here, halfway hangs prep and the event itself. So here’s both of those two posts combined into one haha. After each halfway, I get a sigh of relief its over aswell as sadness, its weird butin saying that each year rolls over pretty quickly and before you know it the car is at Bens shop again getting a new flex bend welded in because ive destroyed the previous one he welded in, almost like ground hog day. Prior to this a few of us headed out to eastern creek to the peanut track to an all day driving sports peanut/wet pan day, I figured id give the car a quick and easy shake down, its also not a bad way to spend a saturday.

Overall the day went well, I had to battle the rear end of this car all day, as its hella bouncy, i really am not sure why but either way its time to change to something else, before CorollaPalooza. The worst thing to happen on the day was hitting my sump on the bottom section of the track where they tell you not to cut through…

Fast forward a few weeks later and I find myself at twin servos Wyong waiting for the guys to arrive.

Once again stopping at the artisan farmer in Taree, there is nothing better than having a proper coffee and food instead of rubbish macdonalds or hungry jacks.

Sweet set up in the car park !

We arrived around 330, everything went well on the drive up, besides the heat towards the end of the trip but we just plowed on through.

Ive taken my brushes to halfway for the last 3 years now, I was lucky enough this year to have a tonne of interest from people wanting some stripes on their car, it definitely makes it very exciting, but it can also be a lot on the weekend so I dont take a whole lot on, as I am on holidays haha, this however was one job i was hella excited to do. Noah had messaged me a few months before halfway asking if I could paint the winter edition logo on his landcruiser but re design it my own way, ive seen a lot of artists from the states do this type of work from the 80s onwards so being able to do it on something finally is a milestone.

I didnt take too many photos on the weekend I kick myself after each halfway for not doing so, I guess thats just from always being around people, being in the moment and not needing social media to fill the void? I dont know either way its kinda nice.

Once again back at raleigh, for another year of the get down. There is just something about grassroots events that you cant beat, and its not to take away from other events, they all have their purpose, serve their purpose and without that diversity it drifting wouldnt be as good as it is. Ive been lucky with this car over the years, its never really broken anything but my luck ran out this event which sucked because I was starting to get in the groove of things with Luke, when I started to feel the front end of the car feel very unpredictable, which turned out to be the front left wheel bearing. With that I packed the car up and just enjoyed the rest of the weekend!

All in all, it was once again a great holiday, one that I looked forward to each year, and have been now for 11 years. Unfortunately arriving home I got news that we had to find somewhere else to live, bit of a kick in the dick but more on that later !