Articles by: Peter Bateman
Ben Gatt’s family heirloom XT Fairmont reborn
Benny Gatt turns his late dad's old XT into the cruiser he'd always dreamed about
Snapper’s crazy custom creations – My Shed
The many and varied creations of a bloke called Snapper - a bush mechanic with an eye for exquisite automotive styling and whose wild FX ute creation appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road
Holden 355 stroker-powered 1977 HZ One-Tonner – Reader Ride
Up on Queensland’s Capricorn Coast, even the farm utes are V8s
LS1-powered nine-seater Silver Fox bus
The LS1-powered Silver Fox bus is the flashest chopped nine-seater on the block
Legendary drag racer Ben Gatt – profile
We look back at Benny's 50 years of drag racing
Dream shop truck: Resto mod Morris J-type Van
Graeme Collins's Morris J-van goes, stops, does skids and looks damn cool
INSIDE HELL TOWN HOTRODS
You can’t miss Hell Town Hotrods, south of Gympie – just look for the ‘rod on a hot tin roof’!
URALLA DUST UP 2016
Mud, mayhem and marvellous machinery at the third annual Uralla Dust Up
INTERVIEW – MARK NATOLI, METAL MAESTRO ON MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
We talk to Mark Natoli, the metal maestro behind much of the panel work on the amazing cars in Mad Max: Fury Road
BLOWN SIX-POT VK COMMODORE: READER’S CAR OF THE WEEK
While blown big-blocks and screaming LS-based combinations are all the rage, there are definitely other ways to skin the skid cat
HOT ROD SHED: JOHN BAKER
Whether it’s garden art or rolling art, John Baker knows how to turn old metal into gold
BUCKET LIST
Think your big block is tough? Try a twin-blown, 27-litre V12!