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[RX25SE]

Nik, How the story with your dog going?

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Haha Nik has 69 rep points.

[RX25SE]

Mornin' all. Work sux.

[buzzda]

Morrrrnnning Mr Jase.

[Shiv]

Morning Jase, Traffic sucks. Absolutely abysmal! I got a call from the new owner of my previous car. The alarm/immobilser has shat itself. To make matters worse, the poor guy is stranded in Nowra (South Coast, NSW) about 3hrs from Sydney.

[RX25SE]

So you going down there to help the poor guy??

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Bad Luck, it's his problem now! Morning fellow GTers

[skillionaire]

Nik,
How the story with your dog going?

She was meant to have surgery on Monday, but they found some abnormalities in her blood tests so that's been sent to Perth now. Waiting for results!

Haha Nik has 69 rep points.

Haha, I actually took a screen shot.

[skillionaire]

Details of a new Lancia Stratos started to leak out a few weeks ago after one was spotted testing at Fiat’s Balocco test track back in July. This car
turned out to be a one-off special, which a wealthy entrepreneur involved in the Automotive supply industry had commissioned Pininfarina to build, requesting them to design a modern recreation of his favourite car of all time, the legendary Lancia Stratos.
This is a dream he (Michael Stoschek) had been pursuing since 2003, first by participating financially in the unsuccessful Fenomenon Stratos project, which presented a concept Stratos for the first time at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. When this project eventually came to nothing, Stoschek decided to commission Pininfarina to build a one-off vehicle just for himself and his son, Maximilian, to use instead, using a shortened Ferrari 430 Scuderia chassis as the basis for the project.

Doing the dynamic testing on the almost finished car is ex-Formula One driver, Tiago Monterio, and the feedback he gave after the test at the Balocco test track was that the car had fully lived up to the high expectations Stoshek had originally set the team back in 2008.

The car is built entirely from carbonfibre and only weighs 1240kg (around 108 kilos lighter than the donor Ferrari Scuderia), with the weight being equally distributed front and rear. With the 430 Scuderia's 4.3-litre V8 engine pushing out 503bhp, this gives the car a power-to-weight ratio of 413bhp/ton.

For comparison, the original Lancia Stratos produced 190bhp from its 2.4-litre Ferrari V6 engine and had a kerb weight of 980kg, meaning 197bhp/ton, so this new Stratos should prove massively quicker than the original road car ever was.

Stoschek has given Pininfarina the go-ahead to explore the opportunity of building up to 25 examples of this new Stratos, so if you fancy one too, then you’ll need very deep pockets as we hear the expected price will run well into hundreds of thousands of pounds. It’s very pretty though...

[Shiv]

So you going down there to help the poor guy??

Bad Luck, it's his problem now!

Pretty much! I hope he sorts it out though.

Bit of a rant...I'm over dealing with wreckers. Most of them don't know what they're selling and half of them you can't understand.

[B4TT]

LOL wreckers - sorry to anyone out there who is one but they are often meatheads That new Lancia is very nice!

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I'm not a huge fan of the looks Nik, but that should go and handle awesome! I love the interior - So much Alcantara and Carbon Fiber! Even with a Carbon Fiber helmet in the door!

[B4TT]

carbon fibre helmet holder

[Morgan]

Morning. What did the new owner expect you to do Shiv?! What are you looking for at wreckers? And what are you getting done under warranty? I rember you mentioning it the other day? Any more questions ill let you know

[skillionaire]

I find a lot of the services in the Automotive industry to be infuriating. I am not an encyclopaedia on cars, that's why I've called you. That's why I've brought my vehicle to your workshop. If everybody knew how to do it themselves, you wouldn't have a job now would you? I'm glad I have my core group of people I use for things like that now, I remember some appalling displays of customer service when I had the Forester. Trying to find JDM'97 Forester bits through wreckers, ALMOST as fun as ringing around the wreckers looking for a bonnet for a B4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skillionaire]

[Morgan]

Nice blue shoes

[skillionaire]

[Morgan]

Lol they look like they've never seen a woman before... who is it?

[skillionaire]

Not sure, but that bloke sitting next to her looks like Tony Parker, NBA basketballer. Just thought it was a funny couple of photos.