Ryan Ford is a well known and respected name in the Australian circles of traditional hot rods. His passion and motivation revolve around that culture. He is a prolific artist, painter, pin-striper, builder, publicist and promoter…
Read MoreHere’s part 2 from our second visit to Andrew’s shop and the little A Model is coming along nicely…
Read MoreSwifty’s T-Bucket is a pillar of Australian hot rodding history. Swifty and Eddie Ford pretty much started hot rodding in Australia in the 1960s as young enthusiasts taking inspiration from what they were seeing trickling in from the States through some new magazines.
Read MoreThe 2019 Boogaloo Campout was held in November in Ballan, Australia. The Boog' is an event for traditional hot rods, custom cars and motorcycles that stretches over a full weekend.
Read MoreAndrew Hutchinson runs the Rotunda Revival workshop in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Andrew's turning his Ford Model A hot rod into his first salt racer, with a goal of entering the car in Speed Week at Lake Gairdner, South Australia on 23rd March 2020.
Read MoreBilly Ayers spent every waking hour over eight months to meticulously create this custom masterpiece at his Eval Motorcycles workshop in Traralgon, Australia.
Read MoreChopped needs no introduction. It has been a staple on the Australian event calendar since its humble beginnings at the Castlemaine football oval in 2008. My first experience, however, was in 2010, the first year at the hallowed Newstead racecourse and the first year of the now infamous Dirt Drags…
Read MoreI was driving and somehow encountered this very car sitting on a country roadside. With the passion and love for Sunnys developing, I instantly took a u-turn and headed over to the house, knocking on the door furiously and hoping the owner would sell the car.
Read MoreShige still regularly takes the car to the drags and puts it through its paces, so it’s no show pony. With tough, take-no-prisoners looks, a 10 second quarter time and some interesting history to boot, ‘MY PUNK’ has all the ingredients for a Fuel story…
Read MoreStepping out of Kuala Lumpur International, you’re immediately punched in the face with humidity and a warm welcoming. Diverse, resourceful and hotter than rollin’ dice… Welcome to Art Of Speed 2019.
Read MoreWith my ever-increasing interest in Japanese metal putting me on high alert, there were a handful of cars that stood out and that I mentally placed on the ‘Let’s find out more about those’ list. Two such cars were an overly-cool Toyota wagon done up in old school racing livery and next to it an equally nice Datsun Z…
Read MoreCrowdy Head on the New South Wales mid-north coast was awoken from its winter slumber this past May with the third annual beach invasion. The Rattle Trap was back…
Read MoreThe concept that we settled on was very straightforward; around thirty motorcycles and the same of cars, all Australian-built and customised vehicles and all displayed in a great venue…
Read MoreOne of the stops on the tour was to see C.K.Naga and his Nissan Laurel. When I shot it back in July 2018, it was a work-in-progress project, but one that was very personal to CK and it oozes with influence from Japanese kaido racers…
Read MoreVictor’s Crown had caused quite a stir on our social media over the Kustomfest weekend. That, combined with the fact that I loved it as soon as I first saw it, meant that I didn’t delay organising a post-show shoot of the car…
Read MoreAdam Mitchell's Nissan V8-powered 1964 Ford Compact Fairlane, shot in New South Wales last year. Adam was good enough to contribute a set of tyres to this shoot. He didn’t need much persuading…
Read MoreThe first stop of my 2017 Japan trip and the first of two (very different) Volkswagens was to be the Flat 4 oval-window Beetle…
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