TILT SHIFT
Oct 07, 2020
4 minutes
STORY SIMON TELFORD
PHOTOS
ALASTAIR RITCHIE
THIS tale brings together the stories of two extraordinary car crafters. They have never met in person, and they built their cars decades apart and on completely different sides of the planet. What linked them? A plastic hot rod model.
By the 1960s, car shows and wild show rods were a big deal in the USA. All kinds of corporate interests got involved, including model car companies. In the days before kids had computers to entertain themselves, models were a massive industry.
The model guys glommed onto the fact that kids loved show rods and
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