1970s Aussie Street Machines 19 June 2019 12:17 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareStreet Machine. Two words that, for a slowly diminishing band of brothers, mean a lifestyle, a form of rebellion, a chance to self-expression via changes to sheetmetal, shoehorning into a tight engine bay a donk that shouldn’t fit but does, or layers of luscious custom “kandy” pear... [More]
Five Memorable Summernats Grand Champions 21 November 2017 07:27 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareSummer is fast approaching and for many that means one thing; Summernats. Summernats plays host each year to Australia’s best show cars, street cars, burnout cars and more in a festival of cars, music and burnt rubber. Each year the elite entrants compete in a series of events to establish who... [More]
When scrap comes back – The revival of the Datsun 240k 03 November 2016 08:31 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareWhen it comes to cars that flew under the radar, it is hard to think that the humble Datsun 240k would ever become a collector’s item, but like many unique cars of the era, they are growing in appeal and value. The 240k was released in the early 70’s from the growing Japanese Datsun br... [More]
Time with a Legend: Howard Astill 13 January 2015 02:02 Rare Spares (0) ShareHoward Astill has gone all the way from casually modifying his XC Ford Falcon panel van in the late 70’s, to achieving one of the highest honours in the street machine world, the Summernats Grand Champion, not once but on three occasions. More recently Howard was honoured again, this tim... [More]