Then for something non splitty related - we were enlisted to help resurrect the famous Peter Keegan drag car of the 70s most prominently known as the "Camel Car" due to its Camel Cigarette sponsorship around that time. Whilst the yanks (ost vs west coast) argue about who was the first to get a VW into the 10s on the quarter, Peter beat them by around 2 weeks (my chat with the Schleys in the US earlier this year didn't result in any admission though!).
Most recently Darryl Yates who used to own Volksmod here on the Gold Coast ran the car in Volksmod guise.
The new owner Rod Richardson is bringing it back to its Camel livery and Dave Butler is building the supercharged flat four. We got it to preliminary paint stage (Silver and weiss) and later we'll get it back to do the orange, then the graphics will be outsourced.
Rod found the original guards (previously on his ex Volksrestore chop top drag beetle which I painted when DRH just opened up)
New rear end had to be grafted on
Original paint rear apron was uncovered
Original style scoop was recreated from photos and some video
Myself, Peter Keegan and Dave Butler discussing the silver and weiss colour samples at Warwick
The silver/weiss fade line was again laid out using photos as a guide
Fortunately forgot to remove Steve before it departed the workshop...
Back in the day:
Peter Keegan was inducted as one of Australia's drag racing pioneers at an awards ceremony in sydney last year:
