The Trepanier built, eBay Motors sponsored Ford Mustang project produced a very cool car. What is very interesting about his project is that all parts, including the original car, were purchased through eBay. The networks of enthusiasm that produce and maintain what I call the ‘trading-post economy’ of modified-car culture were explicitly incorporated into eBay’s […]
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Waste organised by exhibitionists, for the sake of sensation
In the first issue of Street Machine magazine (Aug/Sept 1981) they published some comments from a French reporter who covered the event of France’s first ever drag race. I quote from the Street Machine article: We were going to print the story in toto, but after re-reading it a few time we decided it should […]
Time Machine
I haven’t had so much fun with my thesis for ages! I spent half the day scanning articles into my computer at uni that I had photocopied from the Street Machine ‘archive vault’ yesterday. I am only do the most important articles and colour photos. When I have sorted them out a bit I will […]
Going through the archives
I have been doing some old fashioned research over the last couple of days, reading the NSW State Library’s collection of Australian Van Wheels and Street Machine. It is for my thesis and my Panel Van paper for the conference down in Canberra. There is some classic stuff in the old mags. How things have […]