HOT Rods of all shapes, colours and sizes took took to the city on the long weekend, with dedicated ‘rodders’ from all over Australia stopping over for the annual Easter Hot Rod Shakedown.
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For local couple Shane Stewart and Rachel Thomson hot rods are a newly-discovered passion which has got them well and truly hooked.
The Annual Easter Hot Rod Shakedown was their first Show event, and one they’re not likely to forget.
“We love it and we’ve been looking forward to it for a long time,” Mr Stewart said on Saturday.
“I own a 1959 Cadillac DeVille and it’s all original apart from having airbag suspension, and I’ve had it about three months now.”
A love of everything ‘old-school’ quite literally drove he and Ms Thompson to their new-found hobby, on a journey that all began with the King.
“We wanted something cool to go with the style and the car fitted the bill perfectly. We picked the Cadillac to go with what Elvis used to have.”
The Shakedown group gathered on the oval of Goulburn High School on Saturday morning to register and show off their most prized motoring possessions.
The annual spectacle car enthusiasts from wide and far journey to Goulburn each year to show their most prized possessions.
The twilight street cruise on Saturday evening is always a highlight for families and car-enthusiasts alike and yesterday the fun continued with a Show and Shine event.
This year, Tony and Karen Kean travelled from Boddington in Western Australia for the Shakedown event, bringing with them their self-restored brown 1932 Ford Three Window Coupe.
Mr Kean says he and Karen come over to the east coast every Easter for various runs.
“It’s a long way but we enjoy it.. We make the effort to come over here and catch up with friends and fellow club members,” Mr Kean said. The Kean’s ‘rod’ has a 400 horsepower Chev engine and weighs around 800kgs.
“We’ve raced it at nostalgia drags in the Perth suburb of Kwinana where it gets the best of about 10.6 seconds,” he said.
“I’ve changed a lot on it… I rebuilt the entire engine and re-detailed all underneath so it’s as shiny on the bottom as it is on top.”
Mr Kean is hoping to open a hot rod building business over in Boddington, a tiny town about 140 kms north of Perth. He currently works as an engineer on a gold mine and sees the hot rod business purely as a hobby.
“I’m building another ’32 Three Window for a customer at the moment and we had to come over to Victoria to pick it up,” he said.
“I see the business as purely just a hobby at the moment. I’ll see how it goes. If it gets busy enough I’ll quit the gold mine and do what I want to do. If you’re doing what you love, it’s not work they tell me, so we’ll find out!”