NZ Performance Car

BLOWN BAY BRAWLER

It’s been said before, and it will be said again: is there anything more Kiwi than chucking a rotary engine into something and just doing skids for the heck of it? Hawke’s Bay-based Luke Cox and his family certainly agree; there’s nothing better for them than taking their blown ’78 Mazda B1600 ute out and doing some laps of the local main street or the racetrack, or blowing a set of tyres off on the burnout pad.

Luke tells us he’d always wanted a rotor as a younger lad but just couldn’t make it work so, as he got older and funding allowed,

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