In drag racing, the objective always remains the same: reach the other end of the strip as quickly as possible — a goal
View fullsize Name: Shannon Thickpenny // Age: 40Location: Auckland // Occupation: Owner/CNC machinist at RS Works NZ Performance Car: Hey, Shannon. You’re no stranger to these pages,
Making the local roadways your personal playground is risky business, but it’s all in a night’s work for these Kanjo-inspired Civics View fullsize
Think Muzuno Works is all about shakotan? Well, think again … The drag racing scene in Japan was white hot from the mid
Five years of hard work took this once-rusted Beetle to show-stopping dragster hell-bent on the New Zealand import H-pattern record View fullsize While
Carl Robertson’s ‘JRCOZY’ is no stranger to these pages. However, following a crash in 2017, it’s been reborn, and now it’s got a
Honda really missed the chance to produce the best special edition of all time, so Matthew Holt has gone and built it for
Mixing subtle aero aesthetics with the bite of a four-litre heart, Philip Huynh’s ‘Hyper Roadster’ is every bit as rapid as its name
Weekend warrior: 1991 Nissan Silvia (S13) View fullsize Name: Chevenne Hassan // Age: 23Location: Christchurch // Occupation: Workshop coordinator NZ Performance Car: Hi, Chevenne. Sweet S13
You may recall seeing a 13B-powered and bagged B2000 in this very section back in issue No. 242, with an owner by the
No matter how many flavours of 180SX you’ve come across, you won’t’ve seen one quite as slick as Charlie’s View fullsize Everyone has
When Carl Thompson decided to get serious and enter D1NZ, he knew that he didn’t need to reinvent the wheel to build a
We all have build ideas burning away at the back of our minds, but it’s not often that we have the impetus to
Keep your fasteners in place with an age-old racer trick View fullsize No matter whether your car is a full-blown racer, a weekend
View fullsize Of all the parts switched out in the pursuit of modifying cars, never has there been a community formed around one
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