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him the picture on my phone? I get this opportunity to bypass
everyone and deal straight with the CEO of a huge company, and
all I have on me is this phone pic. So I end up showing it to him, and
he instantly says, ‘Wow, we need to make this happen, meet me in
the Lamborghini booth tomorrow.’”
Over the next few months, the plan was ironed out — an
exercise that included Mike taking a 26-hour flight to Italy for a
one-hour meeting — and then, in early April, Mike found himself
at Lamborghini Auckland being handed the keys to a brand-new,
right-hand-drive, rear-wheel-drive Huracán LP580-2.
Now, what does a drifter do whenever he gets a new car?
Yep, it was straight to Hampton Downs to kill a set of tyres and
then sink a grinder deep into the pristine panels. Fun stuff aside,
there were only four weeks to complete the project before the car
was to be loaded on a boat, so there was no time to waste.
From the outset, Mike’s concept was clear: “My vision
was to make it look like an Italian fighter jet known as a
‘Eurofighter Typhoon’, so that’s the finished look — some Kiwi
camo and style mixed with Eurofighter.”
Grant from GT Refinishers was called in to help fit the
Liberty Walk widebody, and plain sailing this was not. The kit wasDRIVELINE
GEARBOX: Factory seven-speed dual-clutch
transmission
CLUTCH: Factory multi-plate
FLYWHEEL: Factory
DIFF: FactorySUPPORT
STRUTS: AirRex air-ride kit
BRAKES: (F) Factory, (R) factory; Wilwood six-piston handbrake
calipers, hydraulic handbrake, dual bias control valve