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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Cruise Mode: chassis-scraping boosted KP60
View fullsize NZ Performance Car: Hi, Jacob. Sweet KP — how did you end up with it?Jacob: Hi, guys. It was originally my