Charlie Agius' Real Steel '34

Shipped over from the States and transformed into a slick two-tone street rod...

- Al O'toole

Charlie Agius’ passion for hot rodding started in primary school way back in 1972 or 1973, when the teacher handed out magazines to the class Charlie just happened to get two early hot rod magazines and the infatuation was instant, he was hooked. Charlie completed an apprenticeship as a motor mechanic and as soon as his apprenticeship ended in the mid-eighties, he went to work for Ansett as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. On turning 18 Charlie bought his first hot rod, a 1934 Chev sedan.

“Unfortunately that car never got finished but over the years I had ’34 Chevs one after the other, I probably had close to a dozen all up. I got some almost done, some I didn’t, but in 1995 I finished a white ’34 Chev sedan that we used for wedding car hire. In the last eight years I’ve built three cars in a row in the home garage.”

The wedding car was sold in 1996, then Charlie built an all-steel, fully-fendered 1931 Model A Ford roadster that he purchased from California. He kept it left-hand drive but completely rebuilt the whole car. He made his own K member for the chassis, his own four bar system, completed a disc brake conversion, rebuilt the engine and got the car on the road. Then he bought this 1934 Ford five window coupe and a ’32 Ford Tudor project but found he had run out of garage space, so the roadster was sold.