GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL
The old saying goes that you should dress for the job you want, rather than the one you have. This is a notion that’s really captured people’s imagination over the generations: Roxette were telling us to get dressed for success back in 1988, S Club 7 ensured their place in posterity by suggesting we reach for the stars, it’s a relatable and practical solution to the inevitable conceptual ennui we find ourselves trudging through in the day-to-day. Better things are on the horizon, you’ve just got to reach for them.
Take the gold paintwork on this particularly spangly AE86 Toyota Corolla. Gold is the colour of winners, it’s the top of the podium, it’s something Spandau Ballet believed made you indestructible… and so it’s come to pass here, like a pantone reinterpretation of the concept of nominative determinism. Pigmental determinism, perhaps? Whatever, it worked – this gleaming golden hachi-roku made its debut at SEMA 2019 and immediately scooped a top-40 place in the Battle of the Builders, a top-10 in the
