Vandalising the Blow Out

This year at the Hot Rod Blow Out, Buck Rodgers offered for me to drive Vandal into the show. What a privilege that would be but why me?

I have been fascinated with hot rod history and really enjoyed documenting the Vandal & Black Sabbath history for the NZ Hot Rod Magazine.

This year, Vandal was one of the drawcards of the show and adding to that was the Graham Berry and John Reid donated model of Vandal that Berry built - it went up for auction and was won by Grease Martin who has distinctive memories of the car as it was part of the cars in his formative years of Hamilton hot rodding.

I drove into the show in the morning and back out of the show at the end of the day. It must have been freakin insane to drive this car in the early seventies. There was just nothing else like it when John Reid started to build this incredible car in his late teens.

It was also cool to see some of the previous owners of the car at the Hot Rod Blow Out - John & Janet Reid, Willy Pelzers, Martin Bennett, Aaron Hemmingson, and now custodian for Starry - Buck Rodgers

Thanks to Buck Rodgers and Chris Malcolm - Vandal is back for all to enjoy again