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Jason Hansen’s philosophy at his company, Autocolour Matrix, is to think outside the box and build stuff a little differently. When it was announced that the Mustang was to be sold brand new in New Zealand, with the steering wheel on the correct side of the car for our roads, Jason’s mind started wandering. There was no doubt that the marque was popular worldwide, but he likened them to a “packet of jelly beans: there were heaps of them, but they all looked exactly the same, apart from the colour.”

His company is a bit lucky when it came to building cars. Its specialty is building one-off full-custom vehicles, therefore his team possessed the necessary skills and equipment to transform the humble pony car into something a bit more ‘yeah’ and a lot less ‘nah’. They had just finished piecing together a late-model Mazda RX-7 and attached a Rocket Bunny kit to the exterior of the Japanese coupe. Jason was pretty impressed with the quality and

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