EVs set to bring hundreds of jobs to Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

SEA Electric  in collaboration with the Victorian state government, will setup a factory in Morwell to commence production of Australian made EVs. Well done SEA Electric.

Perhaps not a headline story globally but locally in Australia this is a breath of fresh air for local EV supporters who have seen the country slide far behind the global transport revolution.

SEA builds commercial vehicles and one of its first customers was Kings Transport. At the time Kings bought 9 trucks from SEA one of which (a removals truck) was spotted as far afield as the southern suburbs of Perth recently.

The factory in Morwell is due to commence production over the next year. It will provide employment for about 500 people and expects a production run of about 5,000 vehicles annually. With industrialist Sanjeev Gupta promising to build a local EV in Australia is this the renaissance of the Aussie auto manufacturing industry? 

Funny little cars No.22 - A basket case.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to weave a ute tray.

Gotta go!

They're unloading my new car out the front.

The white overalls again.

In Unique Cars.

The Mk.7 with Nagari doors has made an appearance again at $39,000 and still at Gosford.

Still looking very smart.

More woodies.

A bolt on boot.

A piece of cake.

Andrew's body off in no time at all.

Many hands make light work.

It's good to have mates.

Resto begins.

Here is the ex-Mike Exton mark 7 in 1974 when Mike brought it to Shepparton for the Easter event that year.

Some time after that Mike's dad, who had some form of expertise in fibreglass work, fitted a bolt-in Nagari style nose, evidence of which you'll see in photos below.  John Dickson acquired the car and he has had it for many years. It's now time for an update and Graham Nichols has been throwing his weight into the bodywork and paint. At the moment it's been glassing, glassing, glassing, sanding, sanding, sanding, blocking, blocking, blocking.

It should be good when it's finished.

Not sure when but this is John out and about and caught in Rob Luck's camera lens.

A couple of firsts.

First roll-over hoop.

First FWD transaxle.

Sandown Sunday.

Patrick.

KB & Alfie

Another Tiga, the newly restored Sports 2000 of Grant Maxwell.

and a minute's silence at 11.00 am.

Thanks Spencer, Grant and Ian for the photos.

Dave's Pantera coming on

I'm following the progress on this car and huge progress it is. I really like the colour.

Bruce and Geoff were ahead of their time with their green Nagaris.

The number of large rebuild undertakings among the Pantera guys amazes me. Add to that the number of LHD to RHD conversions on the go at the moment and you have a very active DeTomaso group.