Innholdsfortegnelse for No 149 October 2017 i NZV8

Damn, we’ve got some clever bastards here in the local car scene. Take a look at the cars in this issue and you’ll see what I mean. While in every issue we have cars that the owners have cut their fingers on and toyed with in the garage till the wee hours of the morning, this issue features more shed hours than most. My hat goes off to all of them, as, while I’m always hands-on on my own projects, I don’t have anywhere near the skills or patience of the owners of the cars you’re about to check out. What’s interesting about this scene of ours — apart from the cars and people, of course — is this: to the outside world, we may appear to be just playing…

IF YOU HAVE A COOL DAILY-DRIVER AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT APPEAR IN DAILY GRIND, EMAIL EDITOR@V8.CO.NZ Hey Dean, that’s a cool-looking truck. What exactly is it? Thanks; it’s a 1964 C10 Chevrolet long-bed pickup. Did you purchase it locally? I actually bought it in Auckland. I was staying with friends in Auckland on my way back from [the] SEMA [Show] and saw it advertised on Trade Me, so I thought I would go and take a look. As soon as I saw it, that was it — I had to buy it! Judging by the sound, it doesn’t appear to be running the stock engine? No, it is now running a crate Corvette LS3 engine, which is supposedly putting out around 480hp. The stance looks just right, too.…

The late ’90s were an interesting time in the automotive world. Local car dealers were selling some of the blandest machines ever to roll off a production line, while, in contrast, the street-machine scene was all the rage with pro-streeters. With the internet just starting to take off, local car lovers now had a whole online world of inspiration to draw from, and Shaun Hodson was hooked. At the time, he was living it up on his OE in the UK, and, despite the seemingly unlikely location, there was something he couldn’t get off his mind — a pro-street Chev. This was not just any old Chev: the concept sketches that he drew were all of something at an elite show level, yet packing the now-infamous drag racing–inspired style. Shaun…

ALTHOUGH THIS MONTH’S CAR IS ONLY A QUICK CONCEPT, WE’D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT. SO, HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT WHETHER IT’S HOT, NOT, IMPOSSIBLE, OR RIDICULOUS BY COMMENTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE,FACEBOOK.COM/NZV8MAGAZINE Owning a ’34 Tudor, Shaun Hodson has, not surprisingly, spent a few sleepless nights dreaming about what he’d love to do to it. While he can appreciate the nostalgic style of build that’s currently popular, it’s simply not him; instead, his dreams fall at the radical end of the scale. Loving the Factory Five–style ’33 Ford coupes, which are essentially a race-ready, streetlegal hot rod, Shaun would build his Tudor to the same theme. This would mean building a custom chassis for it, for which the body would be channelled over by four inches. Rather…

Tristan Teki is back at it with the homebuilding shenanigans — this time, with a Camaro destined for Group 1 racing duty! “It’s another homebuild with the family helping out,” he said. “It isn’t going to be a big-dollar car like some of the other new builds, but I hope to be at the pointy end by driving the wheels off it.” What Tristan means when he says it isn’t going to be a “big-dollar” build is that the car is being built with mainly second-hand parts from other Central Muscle Cars (CMC) vehicles. These parts include Grant Dalton’s old big block, which Tristan says will receive “the Whanganui touch” to hopefully free up another 100-odd horsepower. Being around 200kg lighter and with around 200 more horsepower than Tristan’s current…

YOU CAN SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM THE PALMY SWAP MEET BY SEARCHING ‘PALMY SWAP MEET’ ON THEMOTORHOOD.COM. Over the past few years, the Palmy Swap Meet has been struck with near-freezing temperatures. This time around, however, the weather gods must have had a hankering for horsepower and made sure the sun was shining brightly. The two-part event — half swap meet, half car show — was packed with punters right from the early hours of the morning, and no one went home unhappy because they’d missed out on a sleep-in. For about 364 days a year, the Manfeild Stadium is used for A & P events, trade shows, and the like, but the swap meet sees it full to the brim with horsepower of a different type. From old hot…

SOME MUNTER’S 15 MINUTES OF FAME As some of you may well have gathered over the course of reading this monthly publication, I sometimes use this page for nothing more than spouting on about the virtues of the cars featured in the issue and why they are great. That is, more often than not, a direct by-product of a rapidly approaching print deadline and a mountain of things to do and pieces to write — all of which are more important than what I randomly elect to ramble about here. Unfortunately for me, Todd has beaten me to the chase this time, providing insight on the homebuilt feature cars around which we have built this issue and raising genuinely interesting and thoughtprovoking points — which is better than I had…

EMAIL YOUR BUILDS TO EDITOR@V8.CO.NZ MORRISON MONARO The name ‘Art Morrison’ is usually associated with chassis for American vehicles, but Hamilton’s Dan and Tania Robinson have shown that that doesn’t need to be the case. Having owned their 1970 Monaro for 30 years, the pair recently took the leap to have the team at Bodymods fit the body to a full Art Morrison chassis. The bodywork on the car features plenty of new–old stock panels purchased around 20 years ago, along with hammer and file work from Spyves Panel Shop. At this stage, no motor has been purchased, although Dan’s been eyeing up LS7s and manual gearboxes. Regardless of whether he sticks with that plan, the car is set to be killer once it’s finally on the road. With them…

The model used by Azhar Bhamji and the 4&Rotary Promotions team is nothing new in the world of automotive events, but they somehow pulled out all the stops this year, making the Prowear Chrome Expression Session 2017 into something new and very exciting. Following the tried-and-tested formula that makes Chrome what it is, there were no surprises as to what the event was going to be like … well, apart from the fact that it exceeded all our expectations in pretty much every area. Spectator and entrant numbers were massive, with, reportedly, 650 entrants and 12,000 spectators through the gates over the weekend, and the quality of vehicles in attendance seemed up on recent years. With the recently finished Hampton Downs International Circuit thrown into the mix, we were given…

BURKHART’S BACK We had high hopes for Johnny Burkhart’s bigpower procharged Plymouth Roadrunner back when it graced the cover of our 10th-birthday issue. However, Johnny never got a chance to test the car’s true capabilities, as it was snapped up by a savvy American not long after our feature. Johnny has recently made up for the time spent with an empty shed, though, having landed a ’71 Plymouth Cuda with some serious quarter-mile intentions. The full-tube-chassis car runs a naturally aspirated 498ci big block 440 RB Mopar motor, which, knowing Johnny, won’t stay un-boosted for long. For now, a 1350cfm Dominator carb is all that pokes through the fibreglass front clip. The combo is backed by a Reid-cased Powerglide trans and Ford nine-inch diff with a Strange head and Moser…

Spec 1968 AUSTIN MINI ENGINE: 4.4-litre Rover V8, Leyland P76 alloy block, factory bottom end, high-compression pistons, shaved factory heads, port-matched Harcourt intake manifold, Edelbrock four-barrel carburettor, sprint car air filter, K&N air-filter element, twin fuel tanks, Edelbrock fuel pump, Edelbrock fuel-pressure regulator, non-return valves, Powerspark high-energy ignition (HEI), 8mm ignition leads, custom headers, 1½-inch primaries, three-inch collectors, four-inch exhaust tips, Subaru Legacy radiator, twin thermo fans, front-mount electric water pump, stainlesssteel overflow can DRIVELINE: Subaru five-speed manual, removed centre diff, locked centre spool, Subaru heavy-duty competition clutch assembly, modified and lightened Rover flywheel, Subaru diff, 4.11:1 diff ratio, custom axle shafts, Subaru inner CV joints, MG Metro Turbo outer CV joints, custom shifter linkage SUSPENSION: Rubber-cone-type Mini front suspension, uprated adjustable front track arms, adjustable rear castor rods, Mini…

Nestled in the backblocks of the Horowhenua is an unassuming shed, but don’t let its appearance deceive you — the work that comes out the doors of that shed is nothing short of spectacular. It’s always the quiet ones who surprise you, and Stacey Emeny definitely falls into that category. When it comes to metal manipulation, Stacey is a genius — what this man can’t do with steel probably hasn’t been invented yet. That is high praise to heap onto someone’s shoulders, but anyone who has seen a build Stacey has had a hand in has no doubt of the man’s skill with hammers, files, and machinery that pre-dates World War II. Stacey has been massaging metal for longer than he can remember, serving his apprenticeship in the mid ’80s…

100 YEARS OF FORD TRUCKS On July 27, 1917, Henry Ford’s automobile company released the Ford Model TT — a truck based on the existing Model T but with a heavier-duty chassis and rear axle, using a worm gear and wheel rather than the crown wheel and pinion of the standard Model T. The Model TT was superseded in 1928 by the Model AA, before being replaced in 1933 with the Model BB, which was available with either a flathead four-cylinder or a V8. The Model 51, circa 1935, was the natural successor, and Ford pickup design did not develop much beyond that point until World War II was over, with the now-venerable F-series introduced late in 1947. The introduction of the F-series also saw Ford’s naming convention evolve, with…

GET READY FOR AMERICARNA Taranaki’s biggest annual automotive extravaganza will mark its 11th anniversary in 2018. Americarna 2018 will take place between February 21 and 24, around the hub of New Plymouth, and registration is now open. An event itinerary can be found online at americarna.com, as can a list of accommodation providers for out-of-town attendees. To register, click the 'Registration' tab on the website. If you require further information, call 06 759 0027, or email john@americarna.com or nadine@americarna.com. COMPUTALETA ALL WRAPS New Zealand’s leading signage supplier, Computaleta, teamed up with 3M earlier this year to create the 2017 All Wraps Challenge, with the goal of finding New Zealand’s best installer. The prize for the winning shop was an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas for SEMA. The comp saw entries…

According to Deane Croker’s partner, Emma, “Deane lives and breathes cars. We have car parts, magazines, and models coming out our ears at home, and there isn’t one room that doesn’t have something car related in it” — Deane sounds like our kind of guy! Deane is a panel beater, and, after years of beating on other people’s rides, he decided he needed to fill a space in his shed and beat on something of his own. All too often, he had heard about and seen projects that had started off as ‘a quick tidy-up’ but had blown out to full-on rebuilds lasting years and often decades. Deane just isn’t into long builds, which is why he decided this one wasn’t going to be one of them. If only he…

Spec 1938 FORD DELUXE COUPE ENGINE: 390ci Ford FE, Holley intake manifold, Holley carburettor, Hooker headers, Mallory distributor, Mercury rocker covers DRIVELINE: BorgWarner T-10 four-speed manual, Lakewood scatter shield, standard clutch and pressure plate, Ford nine-inch diff, big-bearing diff housing, 3.0:1 diff ratio SUSPENSION: Four-bar front suspension, Super Bell dropped I-beam front axle, Porirua Machine stub axles, ladder-bar rear, Triumph Herald rear coilovers, adjustable shock mount brackets, Holden HT steering box BRAKES: Holden single-piston front calipers, Leyland P76 front discs, Ford rear drums WHEELS/TYRES: 15x4-inch Steelie Wheels alloy front wheels, 15x10-inch Thompson Wheels alloy rear wheels, 310- 13.0-15 Hoosier rear tyres, clip-on front whitewalls EXTERIOR: Fibreglass front fenders, custom fibreglass hood, frenched headlight bezels, custom grille, recessed firewall, channelled body, custom floorpan, chopped roof, frenched ’59 Cadillac tail lights, fibreglass…

BUY THIS ISSUE ONLINE AT MAGSTORE.NZ What Wayne wanted to do was raise the bar in Kiwi Top Doorslammer,” Terry Bowden said of Wayne Yearbury’s amazing Studebaker doorslammer when it was featured in NZV8. A big call to make, for sure, but when Terry’s the one saying it … well, you’d better believe it. Impeccably finished even before the slippery carbon-fibre body was lifted, the Studebaker just got better the deeper inside it you looked. With a full chromoly double-frame-rail chassis stitched together by Mr Bowden himself, swing-arm rear suspension, and a PSI-blown 526ci Keith Black Hemi backed by an air-shifted Lenco three-speed, this car was as good as it got. The car had a PB of 6.5s at 217mph at the time, and it says a lot that Wayne…

From the Net COOL THINGS THAT WE DISCOVERED ON THE INTERNET THIS MONTH BUILDING THE BEAST Steve Clare is one talented man, and that’s probably for the best, because not many others could decide to build a mid-engined V8- powered Mini ute and pull it off. Steve, however, tucked right into it, doing almost all the work in his own garage, and with his own two hands. We’ve got some build photos so you can understand just how crazy a transformation this was. Search ‘Steve Clare’ on The Motorhood to check it out. FAT SKIDS Love them, hate them, or plain don’t get them — it doesn’t really matter, because the humble burnout is cementing itself as part of the local car scene, as New Zealand follows Australia’s lead. No…