GETTING YOUR LICENCE

You know how you have a really great idea, and then, just after it’s too late, you wonder if it’s really such a great idea? Don’t feel bad if you do — we all do it. We do it because we’re guys. The hunter. The collector. The gatherer. The one with the best ideas. We always seem to be out there looking for a better way of doing something — faster, smoother, brighter, shinier, cooler. What the hell was wrong with a big block Chevy crew-cab dually with a cool exhaust system and a fully-enclosed American-built race car trailer anyway? Nothing. But that’s not the point, is it? The point is, that there must be something better …

And so, there we were late last year, driving along, my ex-brother-in-law John Haverkamp and me, in my newly acquired Mitsubishi Fuso truck and race car transporter doing a road trip from Auckland where I’d bought it, back down