A fitting name for one of the best games of charades we’ve seen in a long time, this Charade Detomaso has the ultimate trick up its sleeve — a 220kW DOHC VTEC turbo!
Suhail Sahib, formerly known as NFORCA, is back in style with 450kW of 1JZ muscle and his signature clean look on a Mark II Tourer V
Ah yes, we’re entering the retro-mod era, where the Japanese performance cars we’ve all known and loved are fast becoming classics and good folks such as Gwen are bringing them back to life, one epic restoration at a time!
David Knowsley’s 20-year journey to his very own dream car took him from non-turbo automatic to the perfect 398kW weekend stress reliever
Join us, as we hit the touge with the South Island’s biggest AE85/86 enthusiasts, Andrew Saunders, with his 1984 Toyota Trueno — restored to JDM perfection!
Old-school utes don’t come cooler than this! restoring it from the ground up, Leah
left no nut or bolt unturned with the rebuild and refresh of this ’80s Sunny
A comeback. Perfect balance. Innovative solutions and a carefully researched end-game all add up to S15 Silvia perfection, in a build that’s sure to make it to the upper echelons of the S-chassis pop charts
Nathan Claridge rolls out a hyper Honda that’s part upcycle, part bad-luck story rolled into one rapid little three-door street monster
The 400R is the unobtainium now, and if you could get one, would you enjoy owning it, being so rare? Melvin Sami wanted to build his ultimate R33 GT-R, paying homage to the iconic 400R platform.
Near-on 400kW of 2.2-litre boxer stroker shoehorned into one of New Zealand’s most iconic station wagons — we catch up with Josh Elmiger to see just what it takes to build one of New Zealand’s most epic wagons
Je Poy is back with a K24-packing drag and circuit weapon so clean you could eat your adobo off it
340kw of responsive, grocery-getting, soccer ball–hauling Mitsubishi station wagon — is this New Zealand’s ultimate performance long-roofer?
It’s only fitting that the 300th NZPC cover car has three rotors, is an RX-3, and wears the number plate 3DEEP. Get ready for one of the best — if not the best — RX-3 wagons to be built here in New Zealand!
A melting pot of styles comes together to create SWAGER, a candy-dripping, tire-ripping, head-turning R32 GT-R that fuses Japanese style with Kiwi motor know-how
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