Japan, March 2017. It’s the first shoot of the trip and we get stuck right in with one of the coolest custom vans that you’ll ever see. The guys at Deez Crew in Yokohama are the go-to shop in Japan for custom van projects, so a visit was a high priority. We were spoiled for choice regarding which particular van to hone in on, but we settled for the juicy-fruit-fresh California Boogie.
Read MoreFrank Falzon has American gasoline running through his veins. His love for US muscle has seen him own some wild machines over the years, culminating in the two beauties that we have here. He’s also the president of the Camaro Firebird Owners Club of Australia Inc. and a busy family man. His current rides are a 1966 Pontiac GTO and a 1974 Pontiac Formula Firebird.
Read MoreDavid Guy grew up around cars. The forty-four year old has fond memories of drag meets and hot rod shows from his youth, spending time with his father and the Thunderbirds hot rod club in Melbourne. Not many of these stories end with a full father-son resto project though, and what a project for them to take on; Kevin Monk’s old Dodge Challenger race car.
Read MoreGeorge Kotevich is true old school. The 69-year-old has been living and breathing hot rods since his youth in Mosman, NSW.
Read MoreShane Harvey knows what he likes and likes what he knows. Ten years ago he saw a stock standard, rust free 1978 HZ in the Trading Post. It presented well as a light blue 253 V8 auto with bucket seats and a GTS dash. $1200 later, it was his.
Read More“IF PORSCHE HAD BUILT A GT3 IN 1990, THIS IS WHAT IT’D BE..."
Read MoreAaron set to work, spending time working alongside his father and gradually bringing the body up to scratch...
Read MoreThe Australian Grand Prix was first run in the late 1920s at Phillip Island. For eight years the races continued on the rectangular dirt road circuit. This unpredictable and unstable surface called for creative mechanics and thus, the ‘Australian Special’ was born.
Read MoreThe build began four years ago when Reza and his friend Mr Anca decided they could improve on one of Indonesia’s most customized cars. “The Holden ute is one of the favorite cars in Indonesia to be built and customised,” says Reza.
Read MoreLulut Wahyudi, or LT to his mates, lives in Jogja City, Indonesia and runs Retro Classic Cycles, a custom workshop. The 39 year old also organizes Kustomfest, the premier Indonesian custom culture festival and is father to three kids.
Read MoreBob Pankhurst first encountered the custom scene at a home for delinquent boys in the late ‘60s. Not that he was a resident, the home was the venue for a hot rod show and Bob’s brother-in-law had taken him along. “He was driving an early model Cortina at the time, which he’d hotted up, and that impressed me,” remembers Bob. “He even made his own mag wheels for it, which fell apart! He had to put them on the car to see if they actually worked or not, and they just fell to pieces!”
Read MoreThe Volkswagen Beetle has been around since the late thirties, and since then they’ve been modified, customized, chopped up and souped up in almost every way imaginable by enthusiasts from all corners of the globe...
Read MoreRich Colvill is living the dream. Imagine James Bond meets Don Draper and you’ll get the idea. The 39 year old hails from Leeds in the UK and is Creative Director of Agency TK Leeds, London and Los Angeles. He also drives a mean 911.
Read MoreA look back at our interview with Mario from Fuel Magazine issue 15.
Read MoreYou couldn’t blame him really. Ten years old, working after school as the delivery boy for the local butcher, who just happened to have a stack of American Hot Rod magazines. Young Murray Nicholson was hooked from a tender age, and it only got worse.
Read MoreWords Karlee Sangster Photography Luke Ray.
Darren Bevan (Bev, to his mates,) already had a few cars. A nice FC, and EJ to drive the kids around in, a Chev roadster... that sort of thing. Nice cars. Tidy rides. His mates had hot rods, and Darren went to swaps and events and often came away with something large enough to fit in the bed of a truck. But he didn’t have one. This was a problem. A furniture removalist by trade, Darren travelled more than your average guy. On one work trip, he spotted a possibility on the side of the road. That possibility turned into a sale, and not long after, Darren was the owner of a rather unfinished 1945 K model Bedford pickup. A truck of his own.
Read MoreMario Bonnici (Marz to his friends) was on the lookout for an early ski boat when he stumbled across a wooden hulled ‘60s example. The asking price was above and beyond his means, but Marz knew she was something special. He couldn’t get her out of his mind. “American day was on at Flemington in Victoria, and the Classic Wooden Power Boat Association were there displaying some of their boats,” he recalls. “It was then when I met a guy named Leigh. I started talking to him about the boats there and I mentioned Hustler
Read MoreWords Karlee Sangster Photography Luke Ray.
It’s a great story. Born in 1947, Ken Godfrey headed off to school each day, clutching his lunch money. He never bought lunch however, preferring to save the week’s worth until Friday afternoons, when he would stop by the local newsagency on his way home. That lunch money bought more than just sandwiches. It bought the 14 year old his dream world: hot rod and custom magazines. Not content with simply flipping through the pages, Ken began drawing his own versions of the machines before him. His son Michael recalls: “Not many people knew he could draw but his sketches are incredible. He also used to draw a lot of Ed Roth (Ratfink) styled pictures.”
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