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How to tailor your garage door to suit your classic-steel
View fullsize A classic car owner can find joy in two areas of what they do with their machines. First, the process of buying/restoring/owning

Better than Bonnie Doon: get yourself to the Gold Coast 600
Come October, you’ll be so over this Kiwi winter. You’ll need some sun. You’ll need some fun. You’ll need the Goldie. And what better

The modern interceptor: Mad Max-style FG FPV GT
This month’s cover-car owner, Roger Whyte, couldn’t think of a concept, so here’s something we cooked up — who knows, he might even

Meguiar’s Car Crazy Charity Cruise is back!
Is your ride itching for a mid-winter cruise? Is your ride a hot rod, modified or a god damn big-rig?!? Well Meguiar’s have something coming

General excellence: GMs galore at Clevedon
For those whose tastes in automobiles tend more towards products produced by the General, have we got an event for you. The GM Classic Car

Bay display: 25 years of the Marineland Hot Rod & Classic Car Festival
For those who don’t count duck shooting among their list of hobbies, the Sunday of May 7 may still have held a reason to load

Grab your copy of NZV8 Issue No. 145 now!
If you’re any kind of petrolhead, you’ll be all too familiar with the Mad Max film franchise, not to mention the iconic ‘V8 Interceptor’ Falcon

Ex-Bob Morris 1979 ATCC-winning Torana heads Mossgreen Australia auction
Racecars in general can sell for silly money at auction, but it’s not every day you are presented the opportunity to own a small chunk

Cloudy with a chance of rubber
In early 2016, a few mates got together to revive Taranaki’s once proud quarter-mile street drags. Clearly the drinks were strong because the crew decided

Back in black: Gary Benham’s Holden FX ute
The resurrection of one of the country’s best-known drag cars has resulted in it being reborn as one of the best-presented ones …

Precision pipework: the art of custom headers
Few functional performance parts can match the sheer visual appeal of a properly crafted set of headers. And when it comes to custom header fabrication,

Deception: twin-turbo ’57 Chev brutality
It may look like an old race car, but Jason Harrison’s ’57 Chev has the power of a new one — and

Imperfect perfection: 1948 Oldsmobile
What this ’48 Oldsmobile lacks in shine and perfect panel gaps, it more than makes up for in performance View fullsize In

Radial Punishment: Lack-A-Traction’s Burnouts Taupo
It might appear to be a standard Kiwi burnout competition, but Lack-A-Traction’s Burnouts Taupo was a well-oiled machine harbouring professional-level involvement As

Concept corner: Coryeah
This month’s cover-car owner, Aaron Jenkins, said he didn’t have a dream car, and, looking at his Torana, that’s easy enough to understand. So, for