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MINIHORSE
19th July 2009, 05:35 PM
hey guys, planning to head to tassie for the targa tasmania next year, trying to get my shit together and get organised, any suggestions as to where to stay, eat, observe?

ae71
19th July 2009, 09:03 PM
stay: motel

eat: food

watch: from the road side, a tight corner is usually best..

Prewer
19th July 2009, 10:24 PM
^^ and do that all over the state is usually a good option..

Sturgey
19th July 2009, 11:12 PM
sideling is a good stage to watch\
cethana aswell

Cerby86
19th July 2009, 11:43 PM
avoid the locals....their all cnuts :P

MINIHORSE
20th July 2009, 02:58 AM
cheers for the help lads

ae71
20th July 2009, 12:17 PM
also avoid most pizza joints, dont eat any self serve hot food from a servo.

if you make it to hobart, the china dinner in moona is fairly rad. muers sea food restaurant on the hobart/ salamanca water front is desenct but maybe a bit expensive, avoid the pontoon fish and chip shops, "flippers" where alright but last time i went there it was shit.

in Launceston, the jail house grill is awesome.

Devonport, KFC is the prob the best one in the state.

in the north of the state, the busier pubs are usually reasonably good for a counter meal.

search "what if" website for accommodation. most hotels should be safe enough, but a few are a little seedy, not that bad that you would get robbed/stabbed tho. more that there maybe a "special service" available. oh cosey cabbins are rather... cosey ;) there are a few about the state.

Cerby86
20th July 2009, 01:19 PM
dude WTF!!! Flippers shits all over the other places!

DON"T go to the china diner unless you want to die of aids/herpes/hep a, b and c/eating your neighbours pet/food poisoning/being stabbed by a bogan.

KFC is the same every where.

ae71
20th July 2009, 01:42 PM
last time i went there flippers was shit house.. every other time its been tops. the other floating fish shops seem filthy and i wouldnt ever buy from them. id rather take my chances with a mc'crappers burger mid afternoon.

okay im not a mexican so im not a regular to that china place.. noted tho. dont go there then. perhaps the pizza hut eat-in down the road. ive never been stabbed there yet and the food seems decent.

KFC isnt the same everywhere believe me. i know its a chain restaurant but its consistently shit at some places and consistently reasonable at others no matter what time of the day. different management/staff at each store.

Delazy
20th July 2009, 02:02 PM
dude WTF!!! Flippers shits all over the other places!

DON"T go to the china diner unless you want to die of aids/herpes/hep a, b and c/eating your neighbours pet/food poisoning/being stabbed by a bogan.

KFC is the same every where.

werd flippers is decent...nothing better than some greasy fish

china dinner is a big no no...dnt eat there EVER...not even if ur starving and they are offering free feed...

kings buffet in newtown is a big no no aswell...

kfc is different everywhere for sure...as are mcdonalds...seems that staff/manager varies the quality of the food ALOT!!! massive difference between the food locally and then on the mainland...also had reports of it being completely different again around the world...a mate descriped the food in japan as more gourmet than takeaway lol

koolstik
20th July 2009, 03:55 PM
I survived a couple years eating lunch and sometimes dinner 6 days a week from the fish punts when I was working just around the block. good times

Jonny Rochester
20th July 2009, 06:29 PM
hey guys, planning to head to tassie for the targa tasmania next year, trying to get my shit together and get organised, any suggestions as to where to stay, eat, observe?


The question means nothing unless you state what job you have, what you do for a living, what licences and patents you hold etc... Basically a Centrelink means test. The fact you are coming from overseas indicates you have a job, which is a good start.

Then ask yourself, do you want to be standing at the bar with Jim Richards? Or just with regular folk. There are VIP spectating areas you can buy into. It's a big sliding scale. Some spectators hire a helicopter to take them around.

People that finish the race often have too much money left over, so instantly start eating exotic seafood and imported beer. Something I never fully understood.

If you want to get your hands dirty, approach the driver you know best, and offer to carry a barrel of racefuel around in your car for them.

Cerby86
20th July 2009, 10:21 PM
yeah actually come to think of it maccas sandy bay forget some part of my meal every time i go there.

And the other fish punts (fishy business and mako) Used to be okay but the owner is a fucking retard (a nice guy but has no idea)
I found 6 day old fish in the fridge there once and threw it out and he had a massive winge about it and wanted me to sell it. When i told that wasn't going to happen he said he was going to cook it up for himself and i said if he put it in the fryers i was going home and i wouldn't be back till the oil had been changed.
The older staff try to keep the place going decent but gradually they all cracked it and left and he replaced them with little 15 year old gangta's who would rather sit out the front with their pimply friends and smoke and play at being hard than work.
One of them stole some money of one of my mates and when he asked for it back he acted all hard in front of his mates until my mate pimp slapped him and he cried hahahaha

Jonny Rochester
21st July 2009, 12:16 AM
I don't mean to offend, but I don't think the genuine Targa spec fresh oysters and wine served at the Casino are from Flippers.

MINIHORSE
21st July 2009, 12:27 AM
The question means nothing unless you state what job you have, what you do for a living, what licences and patents you hold etc... Basically a Centrelink means test. The fact you are coming from overseas indicates you have a job, which is a good start.

I own the patent to a RTD? is that worth anything lol

Then ask yourself, do you want to be standing at the bar with Jim Richards? Or just with regular folk. There are VIP spectating areas you can buy into. It's a big sliding scale. Some spectators hire a helicopter to take them around.

People that finish the race often have too much money left over, so instantly start eating exotic seafood and imported beer. Something I never fully understood.
isnt VB technically imported? seeing your overseas and all!

If you want to get your hands dirty, approach the driver you know best, and offer to carry a barrel of racefuel around in your car for them.
"Asks dad for Kevin Weeks's number"




sounds like a plan, so i assume targa is all about not what you know, but who you know

Cerby86
21st July 2009, 01:47 AM
its all about laughing at the bogans who go "do a skid ya kent" Then start talking about how their uncles, fathers, sisters, father inlaw owns a ferrari just the same and they are gonna buy it cheap and chuck a 308 in it.








Then running before they get out of the deck chair and the pile of empty beer cans and STAB you!!!!

Jonny Rochester
21st July 2009, 01:05 PM
You can watch Targa by sucking up to some drivers and try to get in the inner circle, offer to help mechanicaly, or own a car same as that being raced (good for spares), then spend heaps trying to keep up with them in the way of drinking etc.

Or you can just find a spot on the side of the road with every other bogan, and do a running comentry for everyone else around that may not be as familiar with the cars going past. Yes, you must also include a story about an uncle that's in Targa.

Either way, you can't watch all of Targa. No one can.