FIRE & ICE

THINGS can get pretty hectic when a fully armed honeybee flies into a moving car. A flick can send it back out the window or, in Levi Chitty’s case, directly under his old man’s double-plugger-clad foot. “We were in Dad’s Tonner,” Levi recalls. “It ran a 327ci four-speed and was a nice ute.” Well, it was until his dad, Jack, recoiled from the bee sting, dropped an f-bomb and crashed into a Stobie pole.

Young Levi and his father were both okay, but the HQ One Tonner was worse for wear. “We put it back on the road but never matched up the new