REAL HANDY

There’s a distinct connection between people and the cars they drive. The obvious connection can be made between tradies and their practical workhorses, which, as we know, are now more common on the road than anything else. Plumbers have vans, builders have utes, soccer mums have, well, soccer mum cars, but what car does a handyman have? After all, a handyman is surely the most versatile of all tradies, willing to give everything a shot. In the case of Paul Maka, it’s a 1970 Chev Chevelle Malibu, and, as you can imagine with Paul being a hands-on jack of all trades, it’s one that he’s built from the ground up himself.

Admitting that he has more skill than money, when Paul found the car under a tarp behind a house in Auckland, he could see potential in it, and, with the price being right, it was a project that he