MINOR 2 MAJOR

It’s a story as old as time, and one that we’d wager a good proportion of the people reading this would have personal experience with. Step one: start with a simple plan — maybe a quick respray or a brake and suspension upgrade. Step two: completely punt that simple plan right out the window as you lose all grip on reality and begin finding more and more things that ‘need to be done’ the further you get into the job. Suddenly, without so much as a warning shot, the car is in a thousand pieces, the budget has been blown, and your ‘quick job’ has turned into a complete rebuild that’s years in the making.

In the beginning, all Mark Thompson wanted to do was drop a Chev LS motor into an HQ Holden body.

“It was February 2008, and at that time I’d only seen two conversions in , and nothing here in New Zealand,”