Another LB with a IVA Pass !

Craig and I took the car over to Derby Testing Station this morning, all went pretty well and 2 hours later was issued with a PASS Certificate.

Huge thanks to Craig, Lydia, Ash, Chris, Luke and Paul for all their input and guidance in getting me this far.

I did approx 8 hrs of shakedown motoring prior to IVA without a problem, car ran well, no overheating issue's, no leaks, all the potential sparks and flames stayed within the wiring loom etc. It felt really good and responsive with direct steering and firm ride.

Briefly it?s a Grp4 Square Arch Shell, Toyota 2GRFE Motor and Evora Gearbox, the colour scheme is a tribute to Massimo Lugli and Enrico Sabatini who rallied in the Italian National Championship in the early 1980?s.

Will post mor photo?s when fully liveried up

Cheers

Phil

PS, Helen has christened the car "Massimo"

Fantastic Phil ! Can't wait to see Massimo soon...

Great news Phil, we have already toasted the achievement, Carol having picked it up on Facebook.

What with Massimo & Bernard, I may become confused (and that is easily done), perhaps Helen should be known henceforth as 'Troy'. That would be confusion sorted.!!

Yeah, Helen of Troy, that'd really clear things up :confused: ;) I'll just call her "Hey You" like I've always done, with a reasonable distance between us of course ;)

Well done to Ulysses for his pass, though. Or was that an old Fiat model?

Congratulations. Fantastic to see another one over the line.

Looking forward to the "liveried up" pics. :D

Congratulations phil and well done to the LB gang, looking forward to seeing the pictures

Fantastic!!! Well done that man (& all others involved & of course Helen!) Right, when do you start building the next one, plenty of room in your garage! (obviously not in the least jealous)

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Congrats. Hurry up with the pics, chop chop!

Phil, many congratulations on your IVA pass. It's a great feeling to get through the IVA. Can't wait to see the liveried photos too.

yes - well done Phil - and team at LB

Bigger stickers put on but trying to get them over the swage line and other non flat surfaces can be a pain.... as is dust !

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For a moment I was wondering who "Fiona" was....hey, it's an age thing :)

Cool - not a livery I was aware of. But I'm not a Stratos aficionado by any means.

And.....Ceramica Artistica Mimma are still in business! Ceramica Mimma - ceramics, floor and wall coverings

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Cool - not a livery I was aware of. But I'm not a Stratos aficionado by any means.

And.....Ceramica Artistica Mimma are still in business! Ceramica Mimma - ceramics, floor and wall coverings

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So are Fiori........... they make Cement Mixers and dumper trucks ;)

www.fiorigroup.com

[QUOTE=Bernard;63796]So are Fiori........... they make Cement Mixers /QUOTE]

Beware Phil, you know what Cement is often used for in Italy.

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Cool - not a livery I was aware of.

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Leigh, I wasn't aware of that livery either.
I very much am now though...

Great result Phil, livery looking superb

Congratulation on the pass Phil!

Front Louvre logo hand painted by Chris J today... he also fitted the sun visor strip... great job, many thanks Chris

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Wow, wow and wow !

Very good work:)

That looks fantastic, I am hopeless at painting most things, let alone by hand... on louvers ! Great to see a Stratos back in your garage.

Fantastic work Chris

Thanks all,
When I saw the photo above, I thought "who's that old bloke putting stickers on Phil's car?" Then I realised it's me!

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Front Louvre logo hand painted by Chris J today... he also fitted the sun visor strip... great job, many thanks Chris

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Stunning work Chris! Phil you must be (even more) delighted with that..... :-0

Front wheel arch tops, door rally squares and "homage" sticker on rear louvre....... just 2 more stickers which are in the post from CJ and that will be it..!
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Looks great, but just one more thing you may have forgotten, Phil - registration...? :) :) :)

Great work from Chris though. If he's that good with the warpaint, maybe apply a bit of makeup to himself to try and look younger so he doesn't freak out at pics of himself? ;) (although, I have exactly the same problem - "who's that bald fat git in that photo...")

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Stunning work Chris! Phil you must be (even more) delighted with that..... :-0

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I'm delighted because Phil is, Ade.
The sticker application and painting is the easy bit. There's a lot of hours of research and drawing up of new artwork. I'd never seen this colour scheme before, so it's a wonder Phil found anything at all that we could use as reference. He did though. The only sticker that I'd already drawn up before, was the silver GRIFONE stickers for Ken Tomblin's University Motors replica car (the ROTHMANS one). But even that didn't have the Grifone shield crest logo on it, so that was to draw up too.

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Hi Ade
Yes really pleased now it is nearly all coming together... won't be too long now.
Having watched CJ painting the louvres and fitting the sun visor strip, he certainly has patience and a lot of skill.
CJ made ALL the stickers for the car.. I fitted most of them but when it came to the stickers on the front wheel arch tops my skill level hit the rocks !!.... I completely buggered one of the stickers trying to go around the compound curves of the body... so I had to get them remade locally by ar signs at Cotgrave who then fitted them.... mind you Josh the guy who did the job struggled a bit and said that they were awkward !

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mind you Josh the guy who did the job struggled a bit and said that they were awkward !

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'See,...I said it wasn't your fault?

Getting closer on the details, final set up of wheel geometry today at LB, also Grp 4 Dash is almost complete apart from a couple of teething problems, Red wheels now on !
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That’s looks fantastic Phil

Oh, the red wheels!!:D

Ace, but can't help but think that it'd be even better if the wheels were blue ;)

It's taken over a year (me making my mind up !) but the last stickers have gone on..... many thanks to CJ for doing the artwork and organising the stickers.

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many thanks to CJ for doing the artwork and organising the stickers.

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Thank you to Dan Luton (Divinehandcraft) for printing them from my artwork.

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Getting closer on the details, final set up of wheel geometry today at LB, also Grp 4 Dash is almost complete apart from a couple of teething problems, Red wheels now on !
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Wow, that looks amazing, I cant wait for my kit to be delivered, almost done with rebuilding my engine in readiness