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Hello! New Vito 115 owner, bespoke painter.

Leelee81

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Middlesex
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Vito 115
Hi,

I'm a new member to the forum and thought I'd introduce myself before joining in!

My name is Lee, I live near Heathrow, working in Camberley as a bespoke automotive painter. I've been in the industry for about 15 years and was lucky enough to start out in prestige cars such as Porsche, Ferrari, Merc and so on. In 2004 I got offered a job at McLaren and spent 6 years there on the SLR project along with other special projects. After McLaren I spent 2 years at Altamura Concepts in Camberley working on custom bikes and other custom projects.

Over the past year I've worked hard with my business partner Jason to open our own Paintshop going by the name UNIT24 Ltd. We worked together at Mclaren and Altamura and are aiming at the bespoke, prestige and super car's as well as custom paint on bikes, boats...just about anything that can be painted!

So if you have any paint related questions I'm sure I'll be able to help in some way even if its doing the job in hand. Please don't hesitate to ask.

Right that's enough of all that here's me van:)

2007 LWB Vito 115 I bought it about a month ago and have already started putting my mark on it.

This is how it is now

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I have a few plans most of witch are already in my possession, lowering springs, front bumper lip, colour coding of mouldings and handles and possibly a colour change in the near future. Going to remove the side rails as chrome is for boats and just not my bag at all so if anyone would like them before I put them on eBay feel free to make me a offer:D

Also big AMG brake kit soon:cool: oh and I've got a little something special in the way of wheels, I'm sure some or you may recognise them?!
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I've got a few small problems with the van, but hope to be able to seek advice on here as and when I start working on them! Looking forward to receiving our comments and if I can help out in any way, please don't hesitate to ask.

Many thanks

LeeLee!
 
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Hello and welcome from me.

I used to live in Camberley and remember passing Altamura and seeing the bikes quite a few times.
 
Wow that was quick! I joined Benzworld a few days ago and still only have one reply! Thanks

Loved working at Altamura until my boss came off his race bike, went down hill then got bought out by BLD so that was my queue to leave and open my own place.
 
Your van looks really nice mate, i also have a Vito 115 & like yourself i'm in the process of modifying it. If you have a look on the forum there are a few of us that are of the same mind regarding retro fitting & mods.. Good luck with it & keep us informed
 
Hi Lee and welcome :cool:
 
Cool having SLR wheels too :)

Tell me about it! A good friend of mine (another ex Mclaren SLR guy) walked in one day and said "I've got a nice set of wheels that will go on that!!" 4 fronts all in correct rotations are unheard of really. I bought them there and then!
 
Your van looks really nice mate, i also have a Vito 115 & like yourself i'm in the process of modifying it. If you have a look on the forum there are a few of us that are of the same mind regarding retro fitting & mods.. Good luck with it & keep us informed

Thanks very much. I'll probably open a new thread with the progress as I've got loads of stuff to do and will need some advice along the way:D
 
Welcome to the forum Lee, it's a good name you've got there!
 
Welcome to the forum Lee, As Big Un said there are a few of us in the same boat as you modifying their Vitos.

Zenman is the man for most info on the vito ,

Enjoy your stay and look forward to seeing your progress.

Nick
 
Cheers fella's

I'm going to try and sort all the little problems around the van before I start getting in to anything else I think. Lots of silly little things around the van that I'm not happy with.

I'll start my pestering for help fairly soon:o
 
Welcome aboard Lee. Nice to see some more Vito stories on here.
 

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