PETER DEEDMAN

NZPC: Hey, Peter. How and when did you get into modifying cars?

Peter: I’ve been involved in the motor trade all my life — specifically parts — so it’s in the blood. My first mod goes way back to the mid ’70s, when American V8s were all the rage — if you could find one. My first car was a 1964 Chevy Impala — quite a tank for a little fella. That began with putting a big four-barrel carby on the 283-cubic-inch [4638cc] V8; twin side pipes; lowering the car — off memory, six inches — and getting wide rubber to the road — 12 inches in the back and nine or so in the front. At the tender age of 18, my first Japanese car mod was converting a 1971 KE26 Corolla 3K with a