WOW! Welcome back to our second issue of Octane Fix Online and thanks everyone for the support and encouragement here.

The response and messages have been amazing to say the least, so thank you again.

I honestly had no idea how this was going to go being something new and totally out of the bag in the car scene. But my thoughts were, well I’d buy it, so some other car enthusiasts would too.

Plus getting to actually watch a video of the events would only make it even better!

As you can imagine it has been pretty full-on learning how all this is going to go and sussing out platforms to make it easier and have it all come together as well as it has.

So now with number one done and everything tested, it’s full-on into it, gathering more photos and videos to bring to you.

So last month was pretty cool! Another EPIC day with Choice Promotions over at the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in Taupo for the annual Aussie Assault event. This is definitely an awesome day out with burnouts and cruising with the Big Three. As you can imagine, I managed to fill a few cameras up with a couple of thousand photos and heap of video again! Because it’s way too cool not too! So keep an eye out in future issues for those to come out.

In this issue, we’re heading along to the Pukehina Surf n Sand Autorama. This is another cool show in an awesome spot that’s only going to grow in size.

Plus, we have massive coverage of the Mangakino Hop from 2020 which is coming up again in July, so make sure you check that out and get along this year. It’s become a very popular event to get along to now. So get amongst it, and see you out there.

Thanks again everyone!

Cheers Giggles (aka Bogan)

Photo credit to Jake Iwanica - Neptune Photography

JUNE 21

CONTENTS:

Pukehina Surf n Sand Autorama 2021 ............................................................. 4

FEATURE: Stu Brickland’s impulse daily to show cruiser and the man behind Pukehina’s Surf n Sand Autorama ............................................ 60

Mangakino Hop 2020 ........................................................................................ 88 FEATURE: Kim Poyton - My Californian Dream Car.............................................. 158 Up-coming Events .............................................................................................. 188

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EDITOR / PHOTOGRAPHER / VIDEO:

Kelvin Couchman (aka Bogan)

DESIGNERS:

Lisa Lewis & Michael Bogalo

The man behind Pukehina’s Surf n Sand AUTORAMA

Stu is the main man behind the Pukehina Surf N Sand Autorama featured here and has been around the hot rod and custom car scene for too many years to put candles on! That would definitely be a fire risk! His Cadillac certainly does the miles getting around all the shows and really is a head turner with the custom flames painted to flow off the front guards along with the classic styling of the fifties era with big bumpers, big curves and a heap of chrome. You may be thinking this truck is an unusual pick for a daily driver, but what better choice to have parked next to your 1956 Cadillac Sedan De Ville show piece than an even older truck you get to drive on a daily basis that actually gives you the true driving experience of hanging onto an automobile! Stu admits the truck was an impulse buy and needed a bit of a tidy up, but it is proudly the work vehicle for Stu’s plumbing business in Pukehina and certainly stands out amongst any modern trade vehicle which is ideal when it comes to advertising. Stu’s goal to keep it authentic is what really makes it catch your eye. Even the signwriting is hand done with the old-style tuff paint that you only get one chance to get it right with. The old Blue flame six-cylinder engine may have come out of an early Corvette, but it still looks like it did when it came out of the factory. The interior is still straight out of the factory right down to the wind out windscreen and hand controlled spot light mounted beside the windscreen.

You wont find a stereo in here. Stu prefers the gear box wine over one of those. It even still has the Millennial anti-theft devices like a 4 speed manual gear box and foot starter pedal next to the clutch pedal! I must admit, sitting next to the Cadi, the stock standard looking truck still looks pretty damn