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My VT S1 Calais V8

Dimples25

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Hey all,

Thought I would show off my ride!

97 S1 VT Calais V8

Bought almost 2 years ago in the below condition:

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Had holes in the boot from the removed spoiler, mismatched paint on the bonnet, and dull paint. Still, had very low k's and driveline seemed quite strong :)

Threw the wheels off my old VR on the girl and cruised around for a month or so, till....

...I hit a Wombat which resulted in the below:

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While it was in getting repaired, i also had the boot holes filled and resprayed, rear qtr panels resprayed, bonnet fixed and resprayed

Once repaired, looked like this:

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And how it currently is:

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and with my daily:

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New wheels will be the next mod, along with hunting down some S2 chrome interior parts. But otherwise just keeping it as a nice cruiser to use on the weekends :)
 
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smelty304

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Very nice mate what other mods you thinking of doing to it?
 

50LTRv8

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Sweet ride, i got one of those too
 

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looks good mate, nice and clean
 

50LTRv8

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Haha I just noticed where you live :)
 

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Thanks guys - would love to supercharge it but it all comes down to $$$ lol; so prob in the short term interior bits n pieces and new rims :)
50LTRv8 - good to see another 5L cal getting around canberra :p
 

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Current interior pic....

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Nice, pretty much the same as mine, although mine has dark grey inserts on the doors. I can,t wait to get ridof the fake wood grain though
 
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