WE SPOTTED Taylah Louise cruising her tough plastic-powered VK Commodore on the Summernats 35 cruise route and were blown away when she told us it was her first-ever time there! On the Friday morning of the event, she filled us in on the car and her debut ’Nats experience.
How did you get involved in cars?
My boyfriend, David; he really pushed me toward it. When we started dating, he showed me some VKs and I just fell in love! It was my first car; I got it when I was 16 as a factory sixcylinder auto. I drove it daily for six or seven years, and then we decided to finally take it off the road and redo it.
Was the car all together when you got it?
It was a little grandma car! I just drove around with my pensioner peak and hubcaps. We have all the books and stuff from the first owner. We got it sandblasted back to bare metal, and David’s a qualified panel beater, so he went in and started fixing whatever little rust there was. There wasn’t too much, but it was just about getting the body straight. Now it’s a 2020 Mustang colour called Magnetic Grey. It’s a very nice colour.
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