This is Adam's 1987 VL Calais turbo which he bought about 9 months ago now. He had previously enjoyed owning a VK and VL Executive Commodore before he had saved enough cash to start looking for a calais turbo. After 7 months of looking (and only coming across a few fairly poor examples) he finally stumbled across this VL, which was completely standard, had 175,000 kms on it, leather interior and cost $8000, which is a pretty good price in Tassie. Since then he has spent a few dollars on it. The first thing was a 3 inch mandrel bent system from the Turbo all the way back with no cat and one muffler. Next was screwing up the boost; it has an adjustable turbosmart bleed valve from 7 to 12psi but Adam tells me he always has it set on the high setting. Next came the cold air intake. Adam has left the box there and run a pipe from inside the box, through the guard and to the front bumper with a K & N high flow filter. Adam tells us that coming soon are an intercooler and high flow turbo so that more boost can be run. Keeping the engine fed will be a bigger fuel pump, and a bit of gear box work will have to be done, otherwise its life won't be too long at all. An oil/air separator will also be added into the equation. The outside is in great condition and the paint is original. It has been lowered 3 inches at the back and 2.5 at the front with the hand of King springs and Adam has bolted up a set of 17 inch AMG Techart Lace wheels with Toyo rubber for grip. The interior is in excellent condition except for the drivers seat the leather is cracked in a few spots but the back seat and passengers seat are as good as new. The extras include a Momo Race steering wheel, Speco Boost Gauge and Autometer Monster Taco on the a pillar, Clarion head unit and Sony crossovers in the parcel shelf. However he enjoyed the sound of the car over the stereo (as we all do). A fire extinguisher is mounted under the drivers seat just in case, a turbo timer has been fitted, Momo shoulder pads, oh and a factory electric sun roof because we all like being burnt on the top of our heads. The other car is the pics is one of his mates cars, it is a supercharged 355 stroked VN Calais which looks very sweet indeed. (c) 2002 www.calaisturbo.com (http://www.calaisturbo.com) Edited by sin. Pics and info by Adam Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Nice car. Good luck with the future mods.

yeh good luck with the car bro, looking good. Baset.

Car was sold a fair while back and written off in a big way. Don't think too many more mods will be taking place.