01 . 2013
Australia Day Ambassador.
Nick Theodossi was appointed an Australia Day Ambassador in 2013 and has held the role since. The role is unpaid and involves attending community events around regional Victoria each January.
06 . Recognition . Quiet, accumulated
Things named,
licenses held.
Fifty-four years of trading produces a quiet pile of recognitions: the licences a dealership has to hold, the ambassadorships and community memberships that accrue, the placements in trade press round-ups. Listed here, as fact, without the marketing register.
Recognitions
Three that matter to the dealership.
The ones that pin the floor to the city, the trade and the community.
02 . Ongoing
LMCT 8350.
The dealership holds Victorian Licensed Motor Car Trader number 8350. The licence is the regulatory baseline for trading vehicles in Victoria. Held continuously since the dealership’s founding.
03 . Ongoing
Life member.
Life member status with the Virtually Forgotten Legends Club. The organisation brings retired football players together and raises funds for the Royal Women’s Hospital, Port Phillip Specialist School and the Lighthouse Foundation.
External citations
Where the dealership shows up in print.
The trade press placements and the planning-document mentions that come with the corner’s position.
04 . 2024 . 25
Cited in the prestige sector survey.
Recurring placement in trade press round-ups of Melbourne’s prestige dealers, including coverage of the Arden Street site’s position relative to the Metro Tunnel precinct.
05 . 2025
Anchor of an $11 billion precinct.
The Metro Tunnel opened in November 2025 with Arden Station directly opposite the showroom. The site is now part of the precinct’s commercial frontage in every public-facing planning document.
A note on awards
The dealership doesn’t enter many.
Most prestige dealer awards are pay-to-enter or industry-tier votes that reward marketing budget more than the floor. Nick has consistently passed on them. The recognitions on this page are unpaid, unsolicited, and the only ones the dealership claims.
If a customer or a journalist asks about industry awards we don’t hold, the answer will always be: we don’t.
Since 1972LMCT 8350Arden Street, North Melbourne