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