REBEL WITHOUT APAUSE

Rebellion and the counterculture have symbolised all that’s aspirational for disaffected youths since the dawn of time itself. Twentieth century history shows Teddy Boys preening as fuming dads look on in distaste, mods and rockers pounding the hell out of each other while teachers despair, punks waving two fingers at the late-seventies establishment. Go far enough back through the swirling mists of time and you’ll find troglodytes painting their caves with ram’s blood in defiance of the contemporary enthusiasm for slathering everything in horse dung. Wherever there is conformity, there must surely be rebellion. It’s how humans operate.

You’ll have spotted this behaviour in the car modifying scene, naturally. Here we see it flickering through a fast-paced shutter, fashions blow in at gale-force pace. As soon as Rocket Bunny or Liberty Walk release a wide-arch kit for any given model, the aftermarket pounces upon it to make it even wider. Being the most outrageous is, for many, absolutely the key to success.

So where