Vaughan Ryan is a trained coachbuilder and panel beater who works as a teacher in automotive collision repair.
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Fuel Tank TV: FLATS
The creators of Dream.Build.Drive bring you the cinematic documentary, FLATS.
A desire to build his own machines and the pursuit of speed lead Nigel Petrie to create a Salt Flat Racer from a 350cc KTM. The childhood dream of setting a land-speed record fuels his journey to the DLRA 25th Annual Speed Week.
Riding on custom made motorcycles, Nigel and his good friend Dean Walters go on an epic road trip from Geelong, Victoria to the salt flats of South Australia in the chase of the ultimate speed.
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Blast From The Past: Stempede Fuel Altered
Words: Shayne Stewart Contemporary Photography: Luke Ray
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Fuel Tank TV: Slammed 1968 'Browny' Volkswagen Type 3 Notchback
How low can you go?!
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Driven: The Hotchkis E-Max Challenger
Words & Photography: Luke Ray.
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Fuel Tank TV: Chuck Beck's Collection
"Last summer I decided to build a motorcycle. The only engine I had lying around was a Lamborghini V12."
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Sight Unseen: Kev’s ’51 Panhead
Words Geoff Baldwin Photography Luke Ray.
My buddy Kev has a knack for importing vehicles. Over the years he’s accumulated a killer collection of custom bikes and cars that are enough to turn any moto enthusiast green. But of all his trick rides it’s his 1951 Harley Davidson Panhead that really takes my fancy. I’ll be honest here and say that Harleys have never really been my thing, but the first time I saw Kev’s Pan all that changed. There’s no denying that the era this bike’s from was one of the most visually spectacular automotive design periods in history, but Kev’s Pan is the perfect balance of classic '50s cool and tidy custom work. Everything from the chunky tyres to the wheel covers and cocktail shaker mufflers balances perfectly with its fifties styling. Like all of Kev’s bikes there’s a cool story behind how it ended up in his hands, but this one brings a whole new meaning to “sight unseen”.
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Fuel Tank TV: This Howling Mazda RX-2 Is A Killer Bee
“In Australia, you’ve got several options; cricket, you have football, you have cars, and my dad was a car racer back in the day,” says Jason Humble. “So I was fairly blessed as a kid—I got to spend a lot of time at the race track.”
When it finally came to owning and running his own race car, Humble had fallen in love with small, revvy, mighty, rotary-powered Mazdas"
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Art of Drive: Alan Derosier
Our Art of Drive series interviews artists, designers and photographers to find out what inspires them.
Please give our readers an introduction to who you are, where you are from, and what you do?
My name is Alan Derosier, I’m 27 years old and from a small town in the Britain countryside of France. I'm a car designer currently working in Shanghai, China, living with a strong passion for vintage aircooled VWs and Porsches.
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RWB Australia: Southern Cross Build Process
Words: Wong Chern.
Nakai-san’s quickest build from start to finish was 1.5 days, he averages about 2 days per car and spends around close to 10 months away from Japan now. For Southern Cross, the first RWB in the Southern Hemisphere, he spent about 3.5 days.
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Ignition Special: Terry Davis’ 1932 Roadster
It all began with a magazine. The glossy pages full of American hot rods entranced the 14 year old Terry Davis and it was the start of something beautiful. Growing up around speedways like Rowley Park, Mount Gambier, Portland and the Sydney showground, it didn’t take long for Terry to choose his career and at 15 he started work as an apprentice motor mechanic. Every apprentice needs a project car and Terry was no different. By 18 he had completed a ground up rebuild of an FX Holden and had well and truly caught the bug. Joining the Ramrodders Hot Rod Club in the 70’s with the FX earned him his fair share of ribbing. Something had to be done. The rod of choice was a 1934 Plymouth Sedan.
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Fuel Tank TV: Motorhead Hakone Hill Climb II
The 2nd MOTOR HEAD HILL CLIMB event took place at the Touge roads of Hakone Turnpike in Japan with yet another lineup of vintage and current race cars. For more details about the cars and the event, grab a copy of the MOTOR HEAD Magazine Vol.18!
www.motorheadmagazine.jp
Art of Drive: Jon Westwood
When did you start drawing and how did your life as an artist begin?
I started drawing at a very young age, as was common I think for most people growing up. I liked taking things from my favourite shows at the time and recreating them or adding things to them to make them a little different. I remember a couple friends and I had this whole thing where we would take characters like Spongebob and make them wear mech battle suits or add ridiculous guns on them. That's the fun thing about drawing.. you can make something that you're sure no one (or at least no one in your group of friends) has seen before.
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Fuel Tank TV: Doonies 2
See this film and more than 1000 others at the Fuel Tank TV website.
Bringing a collection of the most outrageous Monster Energy machinery – The Doonies journeyed back to the Glamis Sand Dunes of California to wreak havoc and go bigger then imaginable #DOONIES2 - Monster Energy.
Music:
Sleep – “Dragonaut”
Mickey Avalon- “Rock Bottom”
Check out monsterenergy.com.
Kit Racer: 1973 Dodge Challenger Race Car
In the early-1970s, Chrysler came up with a unique program to help promote its vehicles in sportsman-level circle-track racing. These were racecars in kit form, released through their then-distributor Petty Enterprises and developed by the legendary Larry Rathgeb, who was also part of the streamlined Charger Daytona and Plymouth Superbird programs.
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The KDS Van: Part 3
Visit number three in the KDS van saga, and it was time to flake. Karl had been busy prepping his Bedford CF for paint. By the time I arrived to shoot, he’d already silver flaked the whole front clip and the dash. On the morning of my visit, Karl was just doing the past preparations for painting the right side of the van that day.
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Fuel Tank TV: projectDETOUR - CALIFORNIA
projectDETOUR is a short film series about three trips to three destinations. We've been hiking waist deep powder in the Alps, we high fived sheep farmers in Greece and rode our motorbikes through the state of California.
California baby... What do you want more?!
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Art of Drive: Paul Hughes
How would you describe your art?
I suppose the easiest way to describe my art is that it's kind of illustrative in a cartoony way. I like to tell a story with my paintings, like an old three panel comic strip only the first and third panel are missing and it's up to the viewer to make up their own beginning and end. My style fits nicely into the low brow, kustom kulture, tiki, surf & punk genres.. Go figure.
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Melbourne to Motor City: Craig Metros' Model A Hot Rod
As I write this article, my 1931 Model A is on a boat somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean along with everything else I possess in the world. After more than eight years of living and working in Melbourne, my wife and I have returned home to the Motor City.
I think about the satin black traditional hot rod sitting in its container aboard that ship and I’m happy to know I’m bringing a three-dimensional slice of my life in Melbourne to my home, Detroit.
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Fuel Tank TV: 1970 Mercedes-Benz C111-II
See this film and more than 1000 others at the Fuel Tank TV website.
Constantin von Kageneck from the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center takes Jay under the hood of his dream car, the rare Wankel-engined, '70s supersports C111. - Jay Leno's Garage.
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