ABRUPT CHAOS

A MIGHTY Boy has been crowned Motorvation Grand Champ. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d ever be writing, but that was the big news earlier in the year when Simon Birch’s Battleship Grey Suzuki wowed everyone at Motorvation 36.

There were plenty of puzzled looks, slack jaws and shaking heads – mine included – when the car was unveiled at Motorvation and everyone realised they were looking at a Suzuki Mighty Boy, of all things. Once that initial shock wore off though, people started to really appreciate the amount of time and effort that had gone into the car.

I SET OUT TO BUILD A $20,000 SKID CAR AND FAILED MISERABLY

What possessed Simon to build such a thing? “I set out to build a $20,000 skid car and failed miserably,” he jokes.

Simon’s sense of humour about the car becomes