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Enthusiast essentials: Razor 200 AC/DC TIG welder
The dime stacker View fullsize Ideal for the garage handyman to the professional welder, the Razor 200 AC/DC TIG welder is a single-phase
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Lethal weapon: immaculate street-legal S13 drifter
Weekend warrior: 1991 Nissan Silvia (S13) View fullsize Name: Chevenne Hassan // Age: 23Location: Christchurch // Occupation: Workshop coordinator NZ Performance Car: Hi, Chevenne. Sweet S13
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Bump and grind: Master Mechanics’ turbo rotary-powered burnout minitruck
You may recall seeing a 13B-powered and bagged B2000 in this very section back in issue No. 242, with an owner by the
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Street spirit: flavour-packed street shark 180SX
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
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Shake & Bake: giant-killer S15
When Carl Thompson decided to get serious and enter D1NZ, he knew that he didn’t need to reinvent the wheel to build a
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Dort Scort: milimetre perfect Honda-powered Escort
We all have build ideas burning away at the back of our minds, but it’s not often that we have the impetus to
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Car spotting: Childish Gambino — This Is America
View fullsize While the non-car interested members are currently imploding over the symbolism-charged music video dropped by hip hop artist Childish Gambino (Aka
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Bolt banter: how to lock tie your bolts
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
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Ironing out the kinks with Super Finishing
View fullsize We all know that looking after your car makes it perform better and last longer. Your car’s metal surfaces are no
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Bend and mend: Repairing damaged wheels the professional way
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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Rip’n Roar: rally-built KP61 Starlet
1300cc of historic rally car fury View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize There was a time in the not so distant
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Win a set of Street Pros!
The good sorts over at VPW Performance, Australia, have hooked us up with a brand new set of Ridler Street Pros to give away.
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Mad Mike’s Red Bull Drift Shifters goes international!
Pack your bags, book the seediest hostel you can find, and smuggle yourself onto a plane — Mad Mike’s Red Bull Drift Shifters
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Cutting laps: New Zealand track guide
We take you on a tour of New Zealand’s motor racing circuits View fullsize Here in New Zealand we are spoilt for choice
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Good cause: Meguiar’s Pink Ribbon Breakfast
View fullsize To help support the fight against breast cancer, Smits Group / Meguiar’s New Zealand is chucking on a Pink Ribbon Breakfast