the Tribe
WIN THIS NEXT MONTH! MOTOR MAGAZINE PRIZE PACK
The magazine subscription for this month is going to be awarded to the reader who writes in and describes their most entertaining moment of mechanical ineptitude. We’ve all been there. We want consequences here. Best letter wins a MOTOR subscription for 12 months and bucketloads of heartfelt empathy from the team
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
IT OCCURRED TO me the other day that here in Australia we have a penchant for building big things. There’s the Big Prawn in Ballina, the Big Stubbie in Tewantin, the big Rocking Horse in Gumeracha and the Big Banana in Coffs Harbour. Buffaloes, cassowaries, chooks, crocs, galahs and guitars, you name it, Aussies have built a strangely distorted giant representation of it.
Problem is, we haven’t ever built a Big Barra. No, I’m not talking about the fish, I’m talking
