Kiwis sure do love building the same cars over and over. There’s only so many — insert generic belly button car of your choice here — cars that you can look at before your eyes glaze over. But then along comes the likes of Shane Poulton to turn an old favourite on its head. Shane likes to march to the beat of his own drum, and do things his way, and his VK Blue Meanie tribute is a perfect example of that approach to life. Stuff what anyone else thinks, what it costs, or how long it takes, the man wants what he wants.
As a child of the 1980s, he grew up watching the likes of Peter Brock throwing the VK Group A Commodores around the race tracks, and from then on he knew he wanted one of his own. He had a lifelong car obsession, actually owning a couple of VKs in his younger years, but he wasn’t in a position to do them justice at the time, and each were sold off before they could get transformed to his liking.
A couple of years ago now,
