Cars

From The Archives: Midnight Motor Racing

This almost-comically overwritten attempt at hanging out with boy racers (and “chick racers”) was commissioned by a magazine about some 15 or 16 years ago…maybe a bit longer. I can’t quite remember. What I do remember is I was in a car with the man known as Blink – then a photographer, and ever since […]

We Lost 17 People This Summer On Our Roads, The Cops Made Lots of Money Though

I’m echoing sentiments expressed by Duncan Garner in the Dominion Post here when I say that the zero tolerance speed policy over the Christmas holiday period for NZ roads (then extended due to the higher road toll) was an astronomical failure. A simple way of the police topping up its revenue – it deserves all […]

Neil Young: Special Deluxe – A Memoir of Life & Cars

Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars Neil Young Penguin Where Neil Young’s first memoir concentrated on the music side – well, suggesting there was anything resembling concentration is a stretch of course – this second volume is more a standalone, served as love-letter to the cars in his life. Neil Young would buy […]