Street Machine

ROAD Master

BUILT in a mad three-month thrash, Aaron Gregory’s ’51 Chev ute, dubbed Memphis Hell, first broke cover at MotorEx 2012 and was promptly put to work cruising up and down the east coast of Oz. All those road miles didn’t stop it from making two visits to the Summernats Top 60 and scoring a swag of other tinware at shows all over the country.

Aaron’s treated the truck to five genre-busting rebirths since then, most recently chopping both the roof and the hand-made tub and reinventing it as a corner-carving, pro touring marvel.

Off the back of that rebuild, it scored another feature in and qualified as a Valvoline Of The Year finalist – and then you lot voted it the

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