“Drive it in six or four cylinder one day, then four days later, out you go driving a new V8”
Engines are second nature to Harley Lishman. He grew up in a car-mad family, watching and helping his father Tye, a V8 specialist, modify and customise hot rods and muscle cars from the family’s backyard shed.
“Dad repowered cars with V8s,” says Harley. “He modified the diffs, gearboxes, the works. Drive it in six or four cylinder one day, then four days later, out you go driving a new V8.”
The ’59 Cadillac is Harley’s mum’s favourite car and, although she has never owned one, she did name her son after the industrial designer, Harley J Earl, responsible for the Caddy’s sublime chrome work, fins, and tail lights.
While Harley maintains the family tradition of ‘souping up’ and driving
