Will Swap For Old Ute/Truck

If all goes well i'll have this registered early next week.

Just gotta fix a misfire at idle, check the brakes, buff the paint to get rid of the colour sanding marks, wheel alignment and roadworthy. All the rest is just little shit i'll do when its running.

I'll be happy to drive the fucker and not have it hanging over my head so i can start my other projects....Yeee-haa!
P.S. will trade minus engine for pre 69 ute or truck.

Radicool

I scored this sweet little steering column drop for my impending hotrod build from me best mate, who if i could describe the man in two words it would be 'Shabby Sheik'

PROFESSIONal

Life lessons of a blue collar worker.
If you follow the Fuel magazine blog you might have seen this already, but i thought the video was suited on here.

When Good Times Go Bad

I found this photo on a Japanese blog so i'm not sure the details but it looks like the chap might have a headache.

Poddo#3

Just got sent photos of some tank progress. Cutting, shutting, grinding and welding like a mad man.

P.S. is that stand as dodgey as it looks?

Third Times a Charm

I'm guessing after the down pour saturday the car show was cancelled.

Seemless Photoshop

The Goodna car show that was rained out twice this year is on again this sunday at the Goodna RSL. Trust me its going to be awesome!
Theres going to be so many rad cars, a street parade led by Peter Brock and special international guest Oprah will be stopping by on her whirl wind tour of Ipswich.
I wouldn't have believed it either until i saw the flyer!!

Mezzy Two Step And The Stunned Mullets

Probably the best band you've never heard!!!!
Thank god i hadn't lost this photo, i thought i had, but this is definitely one of my most treasured memories.
Boy we were drunk. Check the look on the face of the dude on the left, he couldn't comprehend the fury of the impromptu piano accordion session going down, and the dude on the right looks pissed. How we never got thrown out is beyond me. Happy Days.

Graham Ford

I worked in a dealership as a mechanic for years and have no real interest in going back, but i would definitely have a change of heart to work here.

All Good

Still alive, thanks for all the messages and well wishes.
Pretty lame for me really it was only minor surgery and a night in hospital, and truth be told for the amount of ass ache i had to go through with workers comp, slow doctors and bosses saying i should just wear it, i would have rathered the accident never happened.
Never the less i'll have a fully blocked nose until i get the splints out thursday and time off work until friday, so plenty of time to do nothing for a change.

Surgery

Avenge my death whilst riding one of these. Just got told today that i'm to have surgery tomorrow to fix my nose from a work accident that happened at the beginning of the year. Finally i'll be able to breath properly again.
Anyways if i don't wake up you know what to do.

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/