Lamborghini owner kicked off Big Boys Toys stand after bad publicity

Thursday, 9 November 2017

The Lamborghini Huracan Avio in action.

The owner of a $400,000 Lamborghini has been told not to bring the supercar to the Big Boys Toys event in Auckland this weekend after publicity about his stoush with a Taupō mechanic.

Chris Mosley was to have exhibited his souped up Lamborghini Huracan Avio at the event starting Friday.

But after headlines about Mosley's criminal past and allegations he owes Power Torque of Taupō $58,000, it's understood he was told by motoring website Driven, which was the sponsor of the stand he had been due to show the car on, not to come.

Visitors to Big Boys Toys won't get to see the Lamborghini, which can travel at 1-100kmh in 2.5 seconds.

Mosley said he was 'hugely disappointed' that the car was 'kicked out' of the event.

**READ MORE:

Chris Mosley with his Lamborghini, which is for sale for $479,000

* The fast and the furious: police called in over online threats

* The fast and the furious: reformed drug dealer takes aim over Lamborghini**

A friend of Mosley's jumps over his Lamborghini on a skateboard.

'It's disappointing for the public who would have loved to see it. Regardless of the media attention surrounding it, this car is by far the best looking Lamborghini in the country, and the only twin turbo Avio edition in the world.'

Big Boys Toys director Dean Wilson said Mosley had asked if he could exhibit the Lamborghini and so he matched him up with the website stand.

'I don't know where it went, but I understand now it's not happening. I haven't spoken to Chris.

'It's a cool car, it's quite unique, but we've got a lot of amazing cars at the show this year.'

Driven has been asked for comment.

Stuff has been writing about Mosley's dispute with Chris Timmerman of Power Torque over work done to the Lamborghini in August.

Timmerman claimed Mosley owed him $58,000 but Mosley said that he's paid in full, in cash.

The mechanic said comments Mosley made about his business on Facebook have caused him to lose more than $200,000 worth of jobs and he has threatened to take defamation action.

But Mosley said he was within his rights to 'review' Power Torque because his car was returned with faults and had been driven at 174kmh while in Timmerman's care.

Mosley served more than eight years in prison for drug and firearms offending but said he has turned his life around and built up a successful car sales business.

It was revealed on Wednesday that Timmerman has a history of driving fast and disputes with local businesspeople.

Mosley, who is trying to sell the Lamborghini, said after Power Torque finished with the car he took it to tuning specialists at Hampton Downs raceway.

'They spent three days tuning and mapping the car and did over 40 dyno runs. The car is now running at 960hp and 930Nm of torque.

'Interestingly all this tuning only added 100km to the mileage and it wasn’t driven half way across New Zealand this time.'