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  CUSTOM WHEELS by Brad Kimberley Cars

  When putting on your pair of sneakers, did you choose them because it defines your character? Wheels are no different. We are Brisbane’s only wheel shop that caters solely for Commodore VE’s with a range of wheels and colours. Drop on in and personalise your car with us.

   
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  Issue 10 - Festival of Sports Cars

  The third of four ‘Golden Anniversary’ events held at Lakeside Park is the Festival of Sports Cars. Open to all 2 or 2+2 seater sports cars, there was a great variety of cars from all eras on the track. Two of the most memorable entrants include the Centaur Waggott driven by John French to claim the 1962 Australian GT Championship, and the WE84 Cosworth driven by Bap Romano in 1984 to take out the Australian Sports Car Championship. Both of these cars not only attended in static displays, but cut laps for the first, and possibly last time, in decades. The Cosworth has been rebuilt after it’s devastating crash at Amaroo Park in 1986, this time with the larger, more powerful 3.5L V8 in its haunches. As for more modern cars, the variety was a little wider. Regularity classes, PLR Clubman/Sports Car class, two Production Car classes and two Alfa Romeo classes were all present. Tin tops or no tops, the racing was fierce, with final results being down to the wire. Perhaps racing a little too competitively, more than one car crashed out on Sunday. On the ground floor of the Lakeside Function Centre, the Queensland Motor Museum displayed some motoring history. Classic Porsches, Alfa Romeos, and an original Mercedes Benz SL300 Gullwing were some of the pieces shown. The Gullwing was even seen cruising the track alongside a pair of Ginetta sports cars. Story and pics by Ross Ponting.

   
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  Issue 7 - Tony Lind VX Commodore

  The Holden Commodore has always been a good car to modify, the later model V8s especially, because of their standard high performance rating, and they are easy to get go fast bits for. The HSV Clubsport has always been a popular choice when it comes down to it because they already look tough from the factory. Tony Lind chose a 2002 VXII Clubsport when he decided he wanted a cool ride. He’s owned it for a good five years and said it was a good clean car but was completely stock. Now Tony isn’t a man that likes to leave things stock. The truckload of cars he owned back in New Zealand, including a 1000hp JC Cosmo are testimony to that. It took just two years for the customising bug to bite again and Tony started tinkering with the VX.

   
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  Issue 8 - Phatty and Brett's Sendoff

  It looked like a scene from Summernats – a pile of tough cars rocking up, all detailed to the hilt, but this day wasn't a car show or a competition, it was the day to say our goodbyes to Brett and Phatty. Those in the car scene, especially in South East Queensland, would have seen or known Brett and Phatty.... two of the most entertaining characters you could ever met. Unfortunately their lives were cut short by a road accident and they have passed on way earlier than we all would have liked. The who's who of the car scene turned up in their hundreds to say their respects and goodbyes in one of the most touching funerals I have ever been too; a happy, but at the same time sad ceremony. It’s so hard to say goodbye to friends or family that mean the world. I definitely know we will miss their laughter and pranks around the traps and I’m thinking we will all need to get some new inspiration without them egging everyone on to skid it...... With that in mind that's what everyone did, it might not have been legal and everyone is responsible for their own actions but everyone showed Brett and Phatty the respect they would have wanted. For the people that knew them there was no other way they would have wanted to go out ... and that was with a bang ...namely the sound of Amanda popping both tires. Raise your glass and here’s to Phatty and Brett; two of the most genuine and out there guys we will never forget! words and pix by Just Dave

   

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