With the dedication and support from the majority of the people that brought you the 1999 and 2003 ASRF nationals at Geelong, along with the full support from the Victorian divisional council of the ASRF and local clubs, Geelong Street Rodders and strong support from the City of Greater Geelong, Geelong Otway Tourism and the Geelong Agricultural & Pastoral Society, will work together to ensure the success of this event.

As in previous Street Rod Nationals at Geelong the philosophy of the committee is that the Nationals are put on for the members of the ASRF, to get together and have a good time.

From http://www.kustoms.com.au

Saturday 30th - Sunday 31st October 2010 "New Venue"

As you probably have already heard through the grapevine, we had to look for a better and larger venue to hold the 18th Rod & Custom PICNIC, but unfortunately Melbourne has proven to be venue poor when it comes to large automotive events so we had to search further afield!

ENTRIES CLOSE 17th OCTOBER 2010

Only pre 1965 vehicles that meet ASRF classification eligible. Pre ‘48 must be Rodded, Post ’48 must be restored or modified. Blatantly unroadworthy and temporary permit vehicles not eligible.

The Department of Infrastructure has recently begun rejecting Import approval applications for the importation of modified pre 1989 vehicles.

Many innocent individuals have been caught by this sudden change in policy, and have vehicles in transit or stranded in foreign or domestic ports.

The Department has belatedly placed an Alert notice on their website, and have issued a new version of the Vehicle Standards Bulletin (VSB) that relates to importation.

The Import Alert can be viewed here.
The revised Information Brochure (VSB10) can be downloaded here

Post your thoughts on this by commenting below and don't forget to share this with your other online mates. This is a very real threat to our lifestyle and the Government needs to be made aware that we will not stand for it!

One of the first articles I posted here on rodandcustom.com.au was a small introduction and a web link to the fine art photography of David Biene and his amazing book Hopped-Up.

Extract from the website:

"Hopped-Up is a portrait of the European scene of the Hot Rodding culture. David  uses fine art photography and sophisticated face-to-face interviews to present all the different facets of this subculture and some of its protagonists. This book is about real people, about personalities. It is about true enthusiasm and passion, about sweat and fun, about friendship and individuality. And it is about style and photography.

 

The Day of the Drags Event to find Australia's Quickest Flathead Powered Hot Rod has been rescheduled for Saturday 22nd of May. Be there to check out all the action from this great series.

As part of Day of the Drags 2010 they will run two side valve brackets. Heads-up racing 'til they come up with the two quickest flathead powered Hot Rods - Naturally Aspirated & Supercharged .

All flathead contenders may also participate during the day in other events if they wish.

Held each year in conjunction with the Thunderbirds car & rod club as well as the Rotary club.

This was the 17th Annual All American car show. Set in the Dandenong ranges at Gembrook it turned out to be a great setting for this show, sure it was a hot day but the awesome machines on display soon made one forget about the heat.

46 Chev ute was stolen from Oakleigh, Melbourne, Victoria, Sunday 7t Feb.
Its cream with rego TSL 319, has an LPG tank in the back not plumbed and a large sliding drawer tool chest.
Dark maroone velour buckets seats and a broken mirror on teh left hand door.
Any help would be appreciated so if you have any information please contact
John daley 03 9888 5297 bh or 9503 9931 at home.

Well what a year 2009 was. We launched in June and we are now seeing over 2000 unique visitors per month from Australia and around the world. The response has been great and we hope it keeps growing and you guys keep supporting us. We aim to be Australia's biggest resource of user-submitted Hot Rodding and Kustom Kulture content and with the help of some of our existing members we are getting there.

Since we launched 6 months ago we have added a few new features to the site and tuned-up some of the existing ones as well. Here's a quick round up.

WANTED: Writers and Artists

We are always looking for new content for rodandcustom.com.au. For this we are looking to our members to supply some more content on top of what we also find. It can be anything from:

• A great Tech Article that you know about and can demonstrate how it works.
• A few words and photos on your current project that is sitting in your shed.
• Photos and a few paragraphs about the last cool Hot Rod/Custom Car event you've been to.
• Photography and Kustom Kulture Art/Music.
• Product, Manufactuer and Builder reviews.

If you have something that you would like to contribute to rodandcustom.com.au please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

FREE CLASSIFIEDS FOR HOT RODS AND CUSTOMS

We recently added a new FREE Hot Rod and Custom Car classifieds section so if you have some old junk in your shed, or a complete running driver you want to get rid of become a member and get posting. One man's trash is usually another man's trash, but it could be treasure for someone else that's looking for it.

The Forums

The forums are there for all members to use so jump on and introduce yourself. Put up some photos of your current project or driving hot rod. Or just partake in some good old fashioned bench racing with some of our other members.

Events

Members of rodandcustom.com.au can post their events to the site so if you are an organiser of a Hot Rod and/or Custom Car event in Australia become a member and let people know about your events.

Just a quick post to wish all of our members as well as members of the Australian Hot Rod and Custom Car community a safe and merry Christmas and a happy new year for 2010.