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Hello there fellow Fast Four Fans and Rotary Representatives,

Apologies for the amount of time it's taken to make this post. We've had some techical gremlins in the last 24 hours with backing up and updating of servers so the original post was lost. Back we're back up and ready as ever!

The Fast Fours & Rotaries Cruise on Saturday 15th was a huge success, thank you to everyone who faced the early rains and came out for the cruise, it was you guys who made it an event!

It's been such a long time since we've hosted a cruise and with such a successful event, there's not telling what we can come up with next. It's amazing to see pistons and rotaries alike, covering the whole demographic from old-school to new-tech, converging in one location to share our fondness for our rides.

Cuzza Buzza, our birthday boy who recently turned 40 was moved by the number of people who rolled out for his birthday celebrations. He asked for me to share with everyone, "Please tell everyone thanks for coming out, they're allright!", so thanks for making his day guys! Cuzza Buzza (David) is a great friend of ours here at Fast Fours & Rotaries and it's people like him, who highlight to us what's legitimate, bright, and positive about the scene.

We're happy to announce that we raised almost $1000 for our drought affected neighbours in Queensland. This is amazing for a short-notice cruise so thank you everyone for your huge support!

Also we'd like to give a special thanks to our sponsors who came aboard to support the cruise. Without them we wouldn't have been able to get this cruise off the ground. They are:

TurboSmart - Our mate Troy from Turbosmart is always keen to come out for an event and didn't fail to dissapoint! Thanks for your continuing support!

RotorMaster, Gas Motorsport and Titan Motorsports- Unfortunately Joe and the team were unable to make the cruise being caught in a manic time with the Summer Race season revving up. However, they were very generous with inputting into our prize pool!

Mainline Automotive Equipment - Have you ever had your car on a dyno? Chances are it was a Mainline Dyno! Craig was away on a trip however didn't hesitate to support our cruise!

RDA/EBC - It's the first time we've worked with Dennis and it's definitely not going to be the last! Do you folks dig your epically cool travel mugs? You can thank RDA/EBC for them!

StreetWrap - Anthony couldn't make his way out but was keen in supporting our cruise and gave us loads of products to give away.

Motive DVD - We've always been friends with Andrew at Motive DVD, be sure to check out the DVD that was in each show bag

Autobarn Bankstown - Michael Koval made it for the cruise and hung out briefly at the meet point but unfortunately couldn't hang around. Autobarn Bankstown worked together with Motul Oils to chip donations in for the raffle draw

Lachlan Cook Automotive - Locky was the fellow in the highlighter green/yellow Lotus Exige and has been friends with Cuzza Buzza for over 15 years. Like his Lotus? Just wait until you see the rotaries that he builds!

So please make sure you continue supporting the people that are supporting our scene!

A full write-up of the event will be coming out on the Juneissue of Fast Fours & Rotaries Magazine which hits shelves on the 11th of May 2010 so make sure you grab yourselves a copy. Also, remember to become friends with us on our Facebook Page so that we can keep you up-to-date with any events and news.

Well, we know you guys are hungry for some photos so check over the jump for some more.

Hanging out in the pits of WSID on Wednesday Night look who we stumbled across...

It was Nick Bruzesse's first night at the drags and when we took these photos he had already gone for his first run. Although bogging down on his take-off, Nick pulled a big mph.  122mph to be exact which left officials considering sending him home.

Check over the jump for a little bit more of a write up and some more pics.

If you read September issue 2010 of Fast Fours & Rotaries Magazine, you might recall that we featured Flashrods's flash drive cars. Check it out on page 14 if you haven't already. Well, will wonders ever cease, we had a couple of these gems show up at the office today thanks to Dave and Kayla from Flashrods and we are mightily impressed. Jason from Performance Imports Magazine and I can now be spotted cruising around in our new GT-Rs and CTR, wreaking havoc on the USB drives around the office.

Check over the fold for some more pics

Sunsoaked, windburnt and voiceless, we've returned from an intense 2 days of fury from the MotiveDVD GT-R Challenge and Drag Battle sponsored by Juice Polishes. The event, held at Cootamundra airport is located about 2.5 hours north-west of Canberra. There, over 9 GT-Rs went head to head to see who woul reign as the Godzilla of all Godzillas. Together coupled the Drag Battle, the 2 days of non-stop instensity pitted together some of Australias wildest cars and most well-established workshops.

So why would Fast FOURS magazine be following such an event? Check over the fold to find out!

Our new issue of Fast Fours & Rotaries is out on and about! It's available on shelves now so check it out! We've got some sweet rides, awesome tech and some event coverage jam packed into this thing. Don't miss out! There's a brief run through just over the fold.

I was writing up the news segement for the magazine yesterday when I came across this. I decided not to use it for the magazine due to it's time sensitive nature. So anyway, I flick on the television this morning and witnessed Sunrise morning tellie's account of Googles latest technology allowing cars to drive themselves.

Seems pretty legit seeing that these guys have already trekked 140,000 kilometres and apparently experienced no dramas except for one time when one of the rigs was hit from behind. But that could have just been a red blooded motorist noticing the Prius in front of him then decided to put the pedal to the floor!

Check more over the fold for some thoughts

Canberra of course didn't go without some dramatic moments. Show 'n' Shine Veterans Queen Street had a few of their cars join the party. They were able to make the journey to the show 'n' shine without hitch, however some misfortune found its way into their day.

Check out more over the fold

One thing I learned on my trip to Canberra is that car enthusiasts in Canberra are definitely not afraid of a little water. Introduce a little bit of wetness to a meet in Sydney and you can expect disaster, however not in Canberra.

As Fonzy and I arrived, we were warmly greeted by a group from the Toymods forums and Canberra Celica Group. Now these are some keen car guys. Here I am struggling with my umbrella making sure that I'm not drowning in the weather, and some of these guys strut around without any waterproof covering.

More over the fold, pictures and words, don't be shy

If you haven't already notice the Competitions tab just underneath the main banner of the website, then go on ahead and check it out. We'll be keeping this tab updated everytime we've got stuff to give away. The latest competition we've got on also runs in the September issue of Fast Fours and Rotaries Magazine. Make sure you go out an buy this issue because it's chock a block full of some of the neatest rides, events, tech and write-ups.

In the latest giveaway, we've got Meguiar's car care kits to give out. These are valued at over a hundred bucks each and can be yours simply by writing in an email response. Check it out!

How's this for an incredible story?

Eddie Colon from Puerto Rico made the journey to Australia for J20 only to find that his RX-7 got caught up in transport and thus he was left with a race without a race car. In an warm act of generosity, Dib Taouil of Sydney's TCR Automotive offered his 7 sec FD RX-7 to the guest to race in.

You can find the original link here

The boys at Zoom Magazine did a marvellous job in getting their camera on-board in the TCR FD RX-7. Check the vid out over the fold!