29

A siren rang across the mine,
but for those few men it was the end of the line.
Now 29 miners are at heavens gate,
with coal silt faces asking is it to late?
Then god replies with half a grin,
fuck no boys you can come on in.
They place their lights on heavens floor,
a job well done, to be remembered for ever more.

What a fucking sad end, to go to work and never come home. Rest in peace.

Style Awards

As we all know the Gold Coast is the style capital of the world, and the car shows are no different. Many of next seasons trends will be yesterdays news around these parts. Here's just a taste.
Best Motorised Toilet a.k.a. Wet Skid
Its pretty hard when you have a fully tricked out ride not to want to compliment it with an identically painted toilet. Imagine the skid marks you'll leave when you light the rear up. And that's even before you get it started. If your going to be throwing money down the toilet it may as well be on a motorised one. Best Mannequin a.k.a. Hans Yublick

I've said it before, if you haven't got a dummy display in your car theres no hope of going home with a trophy. You'll just be laughed at. I'm predicting an explosion of dummies onto the car scene next year and by the then the Gold Coast guys would have moved on to something cooler, like dildo shifters or something. Extra points must go for his jacket matching the Hyundai Excel seat trim also. Nothing to me says hotrod more than dummies and Hyundai Excels. Best Plush Toy a.k.a. Mans Best Trend

I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that dogs die in hot cars, along with this guys chances of coming runner up. That's right homeboy first place all the way. It must have been close to. I can imagine the scenario on the way to the car show. "Hey Kev did you pack the toy dog?" "Oh fuck Troy! we gotta go back and get him! how will anyone ever take us seriously."

Gold Coast Hotrod Show

You can't buy good taste by throwing money at a car but some people try. Whilst i appreciate the time and effort that goes into a faultless show car, for my taste it looks like the more money spent on billet wheels, polished turbos and television screens the more fucked up a car gets.
These are some of the ones i liked.
Pinstriping by Scotty. Chopped Oldsmobile. The 36' and flat black 28' are both from Toowoomba hotrod shop.

That was pretty much it.

Stoke

Hey lets all get together and go to the museum and look at skateboard photos whilst we listen to wankers crap on about how hardcore they are or were back in the day and how that 'kook' over there probably never skated because "Look at his shoes theres not even an ollie mark on them."
No shit i actually heard that once at a shitty fag skater art exhibition i wish i'd never attended. No doubt when i heard them say they were going home to smoke a pipe i'm certain they meant each others cocks.
I recon i'll go next year and save myself the ass ache of running into said smokers.

Off Chops

My girlfriend snapped his picture whilst enjoying a steak dinner at a pub with another girl friend of hers. Its a samurai chopping an ecstasy pill. Yeah a fuckin' ecstasy pill!
Apparently the gentleman was eager to show two tattooed girls his sweet ink. One word.....RULER!

Broken

Broken control arm mount. Looks like an easy fix from the photo, make a gusset weld the fucker on and goodnight Irene.
But it's not the crack in the photo i'm worried about. Problem is gussets don't weld real well to rust flakes. And sadly rust flakes have very little structural ability.

Wet

A short lived but well respected title.

Making Friends

Fuel

I good little blog for a Melbourne based hotrod mag.
http://www.fuelzine.com/news/