L-Rec

Bloody rice :D

Don't want to give away exact details, but I work for one of the major tier one automotive suppliers, we manufacture original equipment for Toyota, Ford, Holden and Mitsubishi

hehe same here, in a project engineering capacity

E-Gene, good luck with opening your cafe up, let me know if its in Melbourne...

Cheers

rumour mongering

Very apt at this stage, all will be revealed in due time (i.e. not quick enough)

Nice pics there buddy, where did you get the eyelids from & how much $?

I'm more interested in Mike Sportivo's avatar than shiftlights :P

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More info here: E-News

Laps on Chaps? Not my thing m8 :P

Black Sportivo stock '03 / inner-west Melbourne (Maidstone)

Lovin' the Milo Tin exhaust

The sat. nav is in-dash, dealer fitted (my dealer got Strathfield Car Radio to do mine, & they ****** that up).

As illuminati said, it sits where the current 6-stacker CD is. The screen flips open & you have a single-cd unit & tape deck behind it. The Map DVD is under the front passenger seat.

Going back to the guy who had his cd head unit installed in the auxillary box, check out his subby & amp in the back:

Yeh Aaron the styling is questionable :P

Spot on Peekay, drawings have been released for the 2006 Camry & quotation/sourcing has begun amongst local suppliers.

I read in John Mellor's Auto E-News at least a year ago that Lotus Engineering is now owned by Proton. But I'm not sure whter that equates to car's manufacture as well.

I got some pics from this year's show as well:

2004 Melbourne Motorshow

Was well impressed by the Sportivo Concept Car, considering this is Toyota Australia's first real excursion into concept/design work (notwithstanding last year's X-Runner concept or whatever its called).

(PS If that link doesn't work try this one: Motorshow 2004

Is Lotus now owned by Proton Malayasia? Are all the new Lotus models coming out from Proton's factory?

Just curious.

Is mineral turps ok for use on the painted surface? Will it erode it?

I got some **** I need to clean off & a sponge & warm ater ain't doing the trick.

I just moved to Maidstone, my wife & I. Built a townhouse there. 10 mins from the city :)

I work in Keysborough though, not so bad I get to drive the Spivo at least an hour & a half a day :)

L-Rec: Where abouts are you?

Melburn.

I've only ever used Vortex Gold...mainly due to the fact I got a Caltex petrol card for work...but I am very happy with it...but once again nothing to compare with, but I recommend Vortex Gold...

yeh, whats another 2 inches

That's evil

:)

d0h

Accidently 'reported' my reply to this thread instead of 'quoting it'. If one of the mods gets a reported message from me is it possible to post it in this thread...cheers

Happy B'Day xTiGeRx :)

If they have a proper, good batch of paint (as in same colour paint, then on top of that a correct batch matching exactly to the original/master sample) then it shouldn't be a problem. The way the spray gun is set-up will also have an influence, e.g. they would need to have correct film-build thickness etc as per manufacturers instructions.

If your paint has a metallic/mica finish to it, this may be fairly hard to match, especially mica, cos its a 3-coat system done by automated robots which I doubt the dealer/panel beater will have set up to do.

Should be OK, interested to know if it comes back close to original.