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GENERAL EVENT INFO:
Back by popular demand, AutoCon 2011 will wrap up the season in Orange County at the El Toro Air Field & Festival Site in Irvine, CA. This new outdoor venue is right-sized to house the industry’s finest vehicles, builders, enthusiasts, consumers, brands and businesses. Witness the finest collection of rides on the west; from Arizona to Seattle. In addition to the hundreds of drift, race and show cars, a mini food-truck festival
Just in..for paint!
Lamborghini built its first military vehicle in 1977. They designed it with hopes of selling it to the US military. The original prototype had a rear-mounted Chrysler V8 engine. The prototype was destroyed during testing by the US military.
This led Lamborghini to develop the LM001, which was very similar, but had an AMC V8 engine.
It was finally determined that the engine being mounted in the rear caused too many unfavorable handling characteristics in an offroad vehicle, and the LMA002 was built with an entirely new chassis, moving the engine (now the V12 out of the Lamborghini Countach) to
Team Praxis' Honda Civic - owned by Robert Nguyen
Robert, already having the Lotus green exterior, recently decided to gut his entire Civic..including the engine. He and the Team Praxis fellas brought over the Civic shell/frame to fill some holes, prep and paint a Lambo color named- Grigio Telesto.
The process..
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