ET’S face it, not everyone with a newly minted licence is an excellent driver. It’s a fair bet there are going to be a few bumps and scrapes along the way to seniority too. Couple that with a less than an ideal war-chest for a budget and your choices on what is suitable dwindles considerably. Back in 1979 when pieces of Skylab peppered the south of Western Australia, and the dystopian world of Mad Max was a possible future for impressionable youth, Martin Hayes set out for his first set of wheels. Something cheap, quirky and able to take a punch, but keep on keeping on was his mission. As it turned out, Martin’s brother had
