Curt stumbled into the former ACP Sydney offices in the late ’90s, becoming part of the Street Machine furniture as Deputy Editor prior to steering the helm as Editor at tuner title Speed.He played dutiful 2IC at MOTOR through much of the Bauer Sydney era, sidestepping the Big Chair like greased Teflon while inflicting a litany of superlatives across Wheels, Top Gear Australia and Unique Cars – while also steering colourful motoring prose for men’s title Ralph.His copybook of ignominy includes crashing the first Nissan 350Z Track in Australia and narrowly avoiding decapitation by barbed wire fence in an Elfin Streamliner misadventure. Despite one longest-burning Chinese whisper, no, he never actually auditioned to play guitar in the Red Hot Chili Peppers.