NZ Performance Car

Wake & Flake

here’s nothing cooler than when someone comes from a different world, has had a different upbringing, or has cut their teeth in a different scene to the norm found here in New Zealand. Quite a lot of us drove a similar path to our Japanese performance car obsession. However, for Sam Dennis it was a junction that switched tracks, changed back, and switched back again, with his initial love for cars stemming from growing up around hot rods and off roaders. Now this becomes interesting because our first hit of passion usually ends up defining us to some degree. That passion is chiselled in, baked in, and beaten in with a panel hammer until it’s a part of our

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