Street Machine

DIRTY STUFF

IT’S the little things that get ya – the stuff that gets overlooked or forgotten, or simply hasn’t been thought through. Then this stuff often turns around and bites back.

Like the bloke who had done heaps of work on a vintage Triumph sports car, intending to race the ring out of the machine, and the first thing he went for was a set of custom wide wheels. Never checked the wheelarch clearances; he just made sure they went on proper and that the new racing

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