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Issue 4 - Willowbank Test N Tune
www.dragphotos.com.au - Dave Reid
Issue 7 - Garterbelts & Gasoline 2010
The Garter Belts & Gasoline Nostalgia Festival is a celebration of cars, music, fashion, art and culture inspired by the nineteen forties and fifties and held each Labour Day weekend on the beautiful Tamborine Mountain in the Gold Coast hinterland. This year the event was held over four days with non-stop music, displays and even a downhill soapbox derby. Sunday was the best day to be there though for the massive car show on the showground. Turning up first thing in the morning and seeing hundreds of people and cars there already I knew it was going to be a good day. Including a heap of old school bobbers and choppers, there were plenty of motorbikes on display, all shining and polished. The cool dragster and cruiser bicycles in brand new and rat styled themes added a neat touch to the day; a wheelie bin and wheelbarrow made into two cool bikes was something different and very creative. Moving into the centre of the showground there were hundreds of the finest hot rods, cruisers, classics and retro cars ever built. Amongst all of the single entrants there was also many car clubs with a great number of their members; definitely no shortage of cool clubs and supporters in this era of lifestyle and cars. Rat rod styling is definitely becoming more and more popular now with over fifteen cars there that all fell into this category, everything from a matt black XP Falcon wagon with red scallops to a cool 38 Ford pickup, it was open slather for any make or model in this theme. The amount of cars that had the most amazing detail in paint, interior and engine work was outstanding. Candy paint that looked so deep you could put your hand through it. The work that had gone into some of the interiors on show would make you scared to even sit in them! Looking into the engine bays of the beautiful V6s and V8s with chrome so perfect and polished you would have seen your own reflection. All this making these cars some of the highest quality built cars in the country. by Adam Bilsborough.
Issue 10 - Dave Hillman VG Valiant Coupe
Dave Hillman is a young bloke who loves his Mopars. He also fabricates custom work on both street and race cars for a living. These skills, of course come in very handy when the time comes to work on his own cars. The latest creation in the Hillman garage is this VG Valiant coupe. Dave is the first to admit that it’s a work in progress with custom modifications happening pretty much constantly. Despite Dave classing it as unfinished, it’s already a very cool and extremely interesting vehicle. The plans Dave has for it are quite extensive and will most likely warrant another feature sometime in the future, but I think it’s worth a look right now as it is.
Issue 5 - David Langan R32GTR Skyline
The R32 GTR was the first re-instatement of the GTR since its cancelation in 1973 and was nicknamed ‘Godzilla’. Since then the GTR has been a popular car for import enthusiasts like David Lanagan. He’s owned this baby for a little while and has been upgrading and racing to his heart’s content. David’s main goal was to have a car with decent horsepower that wouldn’t break the bank. He owned an R33 GTR before this that made similar power figures but it ran a twin huffer set up on a built motor.