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Simply because it was too important not to be spread throughout the internet, here’s the letter to the editor from NZV8 issue No.
We like crazy concepts, and you can bet your bottom dollar that the bloke who dreamed up this issue’s cover car has one
Shaun Hodson has proven that he’s not only got the right taste when it comes to building tough cars but also the ability,
Following on from our team nominating what they’d be buying with $5,000 in their pockets, we generously doubled the hypothetical budget and sent
It’s the age-old issue of being in the business of building custom cars — you need to do things to the customer’s requirements. Sure, you
If you’re anything like us here in the office, you’ll spend a good chunk of your time imagining what car you’d buy in any given
Picture this: You’re six months old, you crawl onto any car yard in the world with a blank cheque ready to buy a brand-new car,
Some funny stuff goes on at hot rod events. Well, I think so. That’s because hot rodders can be colourful characters. I guess they
Sometimes in life you don’t want to pinch yourself, in case what’s happening is, in fact, just a dream! I have been lucky enough
I don’t recall just when the meeting was, but I’ll take a wild stab in the dark and say late ’90s, maybe 2000. It
Our local automotive scene is blessed with a lot of talent, and we see that in the cars we feature every issue. As we try
“Every month we ask the cover car owner for the concept they’d most like to build, or see built” A few years back, we
“You’ve seen Ian Neary’s version of a Plymouth GTX, but what if he turned his talents to recreating a Kiwi icon? ”
The year 2016 marks 50 years since the first Chevrolet Camaro rolled off the production line, and while you can read all about the evolution
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