FLATTERY WILL GET YOU EVERYWHERE

Have you ever been involved with someone else’s build and found that it gets under your skin enough that you want a piece of the pie? I know I have. But there’s a big difference from feeling a yearning to build something similar and actually doing it. Steve Kirkby from Paintworx in Loughborough did just that after working on the Transporter HQ pickup we featured a few months back.

The fact is that Steve and Paintworx played quite a large role in two of the build incarnations of the THQ pickup – both the chrome yellow and current peach version. He was not only responsible for the paint on that truck but also mods like the filler flap delete, something he’s become a bit famous for: “I get a lot of calls asking me if I used an LHD door but people don’t realise