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Rangiora MCM 2012

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:24:07 +0000

This years Muscle Car Madness was another super fun event. Great cars to check out, friends to catch up with and amazing people watching make the event. Its a truely interesting spectacle. The sun was blazing on the Saturday so finding shade was a must from time to time. The Scavengers had some cool as new cars, with the Orpwoods’48 Buick looking mean. Paul French’s bare metal, heavily Channeled A coupe powered by big block Hemi of course. Issac Mcleary had his Iron head Chopper, Ophy in his now bagged, Notched, frenched and shaved ’54 Chevy doing the long haul from Invercargill illegaly. The southern boys always commit hard, ever changing their cars and bikes, dragging most of the Lurkers north. So cool to see the motivation. Enough of the writing, we’re already excited for next year, here is a bit of coverage from the Saturday.

Methven Hot Rod Show 2011

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:30:33 +0000

Summer in Canterbury New Zealand is amazing on days like today. Fuckin hot and not a breath of wind. A perfect day to convoy out on the country roads from shakey Christchurch south west to Methven.

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:23:09 +0000

My ’65, classic in the weeds shot. Makes a good illusion

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:21:03 +0000

Harry’s Tudor Sedan

Steve Johnson’s ’56 Bel Air Lowrider

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:04:20 +0000

In the late 90′s i’d go hang out with my neighbour Daryel Blacktopp at his place and go through all his old New Zealand Hot Rod mags scouring for pictures of old cool hot rods and the possibility of a lowrider. I struck it once finding an image of the late Christchurch tattoist, Steve Johnsons ’56 Bel which i’m sure is the first lowrider to hit New Zealands shores. Here are some pretty rough images sent from Kenny from the Carnales from the magazine. I went and found Steves son Kelly at his Tattoo shop in Bromley ChCh to find out more about it. He remembers his Dad buying it Pomona in about ’86 off a Mexican gang member. The car was built in the late 70′s. Kelly remembers how noisy the hydraulics were as a kid and cruisng around Chch with his dad hitting switches was blowing peoples minds. There are a few more stories that Kelly had to share which i’ll post when he finds some photo’s from his Dads collection, and maybe some old VHS footage. Here is NZ’s first lowrider?

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