Big Shoutout/Thank You

**-Dell-** · 26-11-2009, 08:17 PM

On Tuesday I left from Sydney to drive up to Brisbane with my cousin, mum and her friend. After two painful days of driving, we finally made it two or three hours early prior to the Pearl Jam concert the two ladies wanted to attend. As my cousin and I refused to go, they decided to leave us in the CBD until they were done, to roam and do whatever.

I decided to log onto Boostcruising (another forum, sacrilege right?!

) as I knew the Queensland cruising scene is quite big, and checked if there was anybody organising something for that evening. Pleasant surprise then, when our very own maca was the one who posted what I was after!

I hadn't really talked to him before, apart from exchanging a few "nice car" posts, but following a brief conversation via PM, he kindly offered to take us out onto the cruise with him as he was showing his cousin from Italy around anyway. We drove up to Maccas, praising his wittle diesel box on the way

I had imagined him to be quiet, perhaps sussing us out as we weren't from around here, but then I remembered that this was a Vdub driver - two minutes in the car with him and my thoughts were erased..

His cousin was a funny bloke too, albeit mostly speaking Italian. It was hilarious watching Alex play translator, occasionally hearing a word (mostly swearing tbh haha) we recognised and piecing the sentences together. Who knew that walking into an Asian internet cafe and paying 5 bucks for an hour would lead to us having such a good time! He took great care of us, showing us around Mt Nebo and not once acting like an irresponsible twat. By the end of the night, my mum had agreed with me that he was indeed a good guy, and my cousin himself continually praised the way he took us in as if we had been buddies for years.

That's the power of VW ownership for you, and why I love this scene more than any other - regardless of whether it means having to drag an out-of-town 16 year old and his very ethnic looking cousin with you! Mad props to ya champ, and when you come down for those Nationals in Sydney or Canberra you were telling me about, I owe you big

**Greg Roles** · 26-11-2009, 08:25 PM

Very nice to read, guess I'll have to be nice to Maca for a while.

Big up the Mackster.

**JustCruisn** · 26-11-2009, 09:25 PM

Excellent outcome.

Interesting to hear there are 'nice' people on Boostcruising, I found it was mostly full of very young blokes doing all sorts of stupid things in cars.

**chris.** · 26-11-2009, 09:49 PM

alex is a good man

glad you had a good stay too

**maca** · 26-11-2009, 10:00 PM

Dude it was no problem at all! I'm glad you and your cousin had a good night

.

I'm really glad we hung out to. You're a fellow Dubber and there was no way in hell I was going to let you roam the streets of Brisbane alone at night! Shame I didn't make it to the Coast in time to see you guys off but it'll be good to catch up next year at the Nats. First we just gotta find out whether they're in Canberra or Sydney! Haha.

**team_v** · 26-11-2009, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by JustCruisn

Interesting to hear there are 'nice' people on Boostcruising, I found it was mostly full of very young blokes doing all sorts of stupid things in cars.

That was and still is my opinion of that particular forum.
Full of wannabe drift kings, minitruckers and bogan falcodores.
Plus the illegal mods and stupid rice was over the top.

VWW is so much better.
<3 VW community spirit

**maca** · 26-11-2009, 11:19 PM

Originally Posted by JustCruisn

Excellent outcome.

Interesting to hear there are 'nice' people on Boostcruising, I found it was mostly full of very young blokes doing all sorts of stupid things in cars.

Ya know I had the same perception, until I went on one of their cruises.

Since then I've actually made some really good mates from Boost (it turns out I already knew one of the girls). But there are still a lot of heroes and junk..