CHRIS Dicker is a serial offender when it comes to getting his cars featured in Street Machine. The first was an HQ Monaro coupe (SM, Aug '07) which was silver with orange stripes; then 'Sandbarra' (SM, Nov '18), the polarising Barra-powered HZ Sandman tribute, also with orange stripes. There was also a VS ute that made the cover of Custom Utes & Vans and was - you guessed it - silver and orange, this time in a two-tone scheme.
Chris's latest creation is this HQ Kingswood, a throwback to the wild 80s pro street monsters he drooled over as a teenager. It carries on that silver/orange theme but incorporates it into 80s-inspired graphics.
It all started when Chris had a hankering to build some kind of events car - he wasn't sure what - and spotted an ad for an HQ that might fit the bill.
"It had a turn-key LS and auto, the floors were stuffed, it had a heap of parts and the guy wanted $7K, so I went for a look," Chris says. "I actually should have walked away, but I asked him what would take it home, and he replied '$4000', so I grabbed it. I'd no sooner got the car in the shop when my son's mate grabbed the LS set-up for $4000."
As luck would have it, a ladder-bar rear end came up for sale with a set of 15x15 wheels "and I had my way forward laid before me," says Chris. "I immediately thought of Howard Astill's XA, Brian Willis's HK and Bam-Bam Martin's HQ with their big rubber. It also brought back memories of my first job in the early 80s unpacking newspapers; the owner would pay me in US and occasionally Aussie car mags with the top of the cover ripped off. The cars were all pro street - big rubber with wild paint jobs and motors."
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RETURN OF THE King
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SOUTH QUEENSLAND CRUSHER
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FLOWN THE COOP
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BLOWN 383CI HOLDEN V8
PROFLO PERFORMANCE, CAMPBELLTOWN, NSW
PONY EXPRESS
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KING HIT
A CLASSIC DATSUN BODY, S15 FRONT END AND A SCREAMING BLOWN LS COMBINE TO CREATE A NEXT-LEVEL SKID MACHINE
BUILT TO LAST
IT SEEMS EVERYONE'S BUILDING A TURBOCHARGED LS COMBO THESE DAYS - BECAUSE IT WORKS. HERE'S HOW TO DO IT PROPERLY, ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE BEST IN THE BIZ
ARMS RACE
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BACK TO YOUR ROOTS
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WILL TO LIVE
PETER DENING'S EXQUISITELY CRAFTED WILLYS BURST ONTO THE SCENE IN 2000, SCOOPED UP A STACK OF AWARDS, THEN SEEMINGLY VANISHED. WE CHAT TO PETE AND THE CAR'S TWO SUBSEQUENT OWNERS TO GET THE FULL STORY
