WILD THING
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that make us smile, and reaffirm our belief in the things we love. Doing this job, we get to speak to a lot of people who cluster tightly under the umbrella term of hot rodder. The phrase means different things to different people, but to us it’s about having fun with old cars and injecting a bit of your own personality into them. Standing out from the crowd, or the crowded road, if you like.
Now, a Fiat 500 will likely not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think hot rod, but when it made its debut at last year’s Supernats I didn’t see a single person not smile when they saw this car.
I think some people are taking it all a little bit too seriously these days
“It made you laugh, didn’t it?” says Chris Hay, “When I saw your face, I thought to myself, well, that’s made the 16 month’s work worthwhile then!”
Obviously, Chris didn’t build this car to appeal to me personally, but that pretty well sums up his attitude to it: “I
