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May 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blink, Car, Cars, Driving, Feature, Feature Article, Feature Writing, Freelance, From The Archives, From The Archives: Midnight Motor Racing, Midnight Motor Racing, Night ·

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February 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cars, Christmas, Dominion Post, Driving, Duncan Garner, Fines, NZ Today, Police, Rant, Roads, Speeding, Traffic, We Lost 17 People This Summer On Our Roads: The Cops Made Lots of Money Though, Zero-Tolerance ·

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October 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Cars, Memoir, Music, Neil Young, Special Deluxe, Waging Heavy Peace, Writing ·

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