
Swap-meet success: Papakura turns it on
View fullsize It’s early Sunday morning, the South Africans are battling the Welsh in a Rugby World Cup quarter-final, and, following that, the All

View fullsize It’s early Sunday morning, the South Africans are battling the Welsh in a Rugby World Cup quarter-final, and, following that, the All

View fullsize Just as we thought we had a fair idea of what was going on in the automotive world, a Facebook page named

“Wade Nisbet wanted to build himself a simple and cheap hot rod. Nine years later, he emerged from the shed with one of the

“We all know the myriad problems of owning an old vehicle. Tauranga’s Andy Etchells decided to solve his XY’s problems by overhauling it in

“Mike and Kim Gooding really are keeping New Zealand green, rolling through the country in their clean — and very green — ’48 Chev

View fullsize It’s always an exciting time in the NZ Performance Car office when we get given the keys to a late-model performance car.

View fullsize Having been described as the largest garage sale in New Zealand, the McLeans Island Swap Meet and Display is a must-do for

“This Capri may have run nine-second passes way back in the late ’90s, but it never looked as good as this!” Back in the

“He ran nine-second quarters in his street car back in the ’90s, so when Mike Bari decided two decades later that he wanted another

We’d all love to be able to pick up the newspaper every morning and have a leisurely read with a cup of coffee and our

“Trevor Smith’s big block ’70 Nova proves that there’s no such thing as finished” View fullsize There are a few different ways you can

“You can talk the talk, but do you really know how torque converters work? Allan Blithe explains” View fullsize One of the most important

“Immaculate doesn’t even begin to describe Grant Eveleigh’s ’69 Camaro” View fullsize “Wow” was about the only word I could muster as I crouched

Motorsport is often a cruel and fickle thing. It’s a fact frequently echoed by those who live and breathe the sport, and it’s something that

“This 37 Chev coupe has had its share of hard times. But it has plenty of fight left in it yet” I was standing
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