The third Hardtuned meet this year, held at the Monash University car park in Melbourne’s east.
It seems the extra travel from the city’s CBD  didn’t effect the turn out or the amount of idiots attending…


For the most part everyone was well behaved and seemed to enjoy themselves, recently the meets have been getting cut shorter and shorter thanks to excessive ‘limiter bashing’ and burnouts etc.

So knowing the current trend I hurriedly ran around trying to  get enough photos before the inevitable happened.
This is the R Power Motorsports Skyline, specializing in GT-R’s you can expect some decent figures and reliability from their work.

Among the large Skyline presence there was also a lone R35 hiding in the pack.

This 260Z was attracting a bit of attention from the crowd with some nice over fenders, smoothed rear end, roll cage as well as a carbon wrapped bonnet.
It looked the part and we hope we get to see this in action at hill climb or club meet in the future.

Not something you see every day at all, a VIP styled Honda CRV.
I set up my tripod and while I was taking a picture the car dropped about 3 inches and I saw the driver and passenger smiling away while playing with the airbag suspension.

Gordie’s Fiat 125s had stolen a few hearts with it’s rebuilt BBS wheels showing plenty of dish, there was always a few people stopping and admiring the handy work behind the little blue sedan.

Johnny’s street registered SR swapped Ke70 was sounding very nice with the echo off the roof of the car park.
We first spotted this little Corolla in this exact same car park some 12 months earlier at a random Import night meet.

GSS feature cars, Chris and Nity’s Civic’s are still looking the goods.
Chris’s EP3 has taken on new life with a set of new wheels and carbon bonnet along with a heap of extra parts that have gone on the car recently.
We will see if we can shoot an update over summer for you guys.

Hanging out at the front of the pack was three mark IV Supra’s, I stopped to have a chat with the owners and talk camera’s for a few minutes before I rushed off to get a few more shots before the ‘Easter Nats’ kicked off.

Tucked away behind this R33 was a sticker bombed Yamaha bike, something I haven’t seen before.

GSS sticker spotted on this very shiny Series 1 S14, the carbon bonnet looked very nice under the lights.

GSS regular Michael’s ‘I <3 Grip’ RS Impreza and a few friends parked off together which made for a nice white group shot.

No Photoshop here… Just two bad ass Bayside Blue R34’s.
A perfect match!

There was a few surprises in the mix like this soft top classic Celica, with the right wheels this would be a hit with the ‘stance’ kids.

We also came across this Toyota Hilux with two tone paint and Ford Territory steelies, not a bad look!

2011 WRX hatch with plenty of factory wide body goodness, seriously mean looking front end.

The cherry on top for this months meet was this DMC Delorean, made famous by the Back to the Future movie trilogy.

A very striking car thanks to it’s unique styling and stainless steel panels, with the total number of Deloreans left in the world rumored to be around the 6000 mark.

Watching the movies at a young age it would seem that nearly every kid dreamed of owning one of these… This kid didn’t have to wait long, check out the ‘P’ Plates!!!

As was to be expected, the hero’s were out in force and the whole meet lasted 30-45 mins before everyone was deafened by excessive revving, limiter bashing and even skids as cars mad an exit.
Left behind were some very unhappy car enthusiasts left to deal with the aftermath of police arriving to shut down the meet after complaints from the public.
With things on the downward spiral for the Victorian car scene we plan to run our own smaller, private meets that focus on the things that brings us together.
Stay tuned for more updates on our Facebook page, until then thanks for reading.
– Gwyn.

We have been absolutely inundated with car meets these past few weeks here in Melbourne, with something on every weekend after WTAC, we can barely keep up!
When Hardtuned.net held their second official meet for the year, it was a great turnout with the street absolutely littered with great looking imports as far as the eye could see!!


With one of Hardtuned.nets’ biggest sites being nissansilvia.com there were plenty of  ‘S’ chassis in attendance.

If looks could kill, this Civic would have taken my life at least three times now!
This has been getting around to nearly every meet and we just love it!

The street and path provided a fresh back drop for this Melbourne meet, but what was down the end of this path?

Another regular, this KE70 made the trip from Ballarat to catch the meet.

The white lettering onJohnathan’s GT-R’s tyres set it off completely.

There is something about 90’s cars and white writing that is just so cool!!

Two-tone S15?
This isn’t something very commonly seen here in Australia, rather it looks like it is straight out of a Tokyo Autosalon show.

I’m personally a big fan of widened steel wheels, however it really depends on the car. And on this Dc2, it works for me!!

I find that clean street S13’s are getting rarer. They either appear to not be modified or they have a bit of drifter ‘roughness’ to them.
This S13 was a nice surprise and a breath of fresh air!

Picture perfect! Mazda Mx5’s seem to be best in a plain old red finish!

It seems it was only a few months ago that to see a Toyota 86 on the road was a big deal, let alone one turning up to a meet! Things are changing fast though, with this one meet seeing five 86’s in total!!

What could I say under this picture?
Who cares! You’re probably too busy staring at the S15 anyway!

By 5pm the meet was huge!!
Soon the police arrived and started some routine breath tests in the middle of the meet.

Drawing it’s own crowd, this Nissan 350Z and Honda CBR250RR had everyone looking.

With some great wheels and a nice flush offset, the black on black look here is killer!

The height is perfect but the rear needs just a few extra mm to fill out the guards.

The two of them parked together made for some awesome photos!!

Regular JDMST member Chris showing off his brand new behind on his Evo. Sporting a new spoiler and rear diffuser, the car is looking immaculate!

Another car that has been spotted at a few meets is this S15 Varietta, now sitting nice and low at all four corners, we think it is a winner!

Hello Domo!

In addition to the huge amount of Japanese cars, there are always a healthy amount of euro cars hitting up the local meets.

Even a show stopping Lamborghini made an appearance!!

As you can see by the photos it was hard to get a moment alone with the LP 560 Gallardo.

It sounded as good as it looked, thanks to a symphony of 10 throaty cylinders moving in perfect precision to produce a hefty 412KW!!

Although we would love to see it a little lower…

To the opposite end of the euro scale, but still something we’d love to see more of is this MK3 Golf with the very punchy VR6 6 cylinder engine!

We were surprised to see one of our ‘We heart cars’ competition winners at the meet! Justin walked away with 2nd place thanks to his clean DC2 Integra…
Yes, those are L plates!

Another shot of the beautiful S15 sitting on black meisters. This really is one of the best looking street cars we have come across, hats off to you!

These ‘diy’ lips are becoming a pretty popular mod amongst younger car modifiers, it’s stupidly cheap to do and adds a sense of toughness to almost any car!

All and all it was a fantastic mix of cars and people. It really is a shame to see such an increase in negative attention from the local law enforcement with such well behaved attendees recently.
For future meets be sure to check out www.hardtuned.net
Thanks for reading,
– Gwyn.

This was by far the best turn out I’ve seen in a very long time, Melbourne pride!
Thanks for reading,
– Gwyn.