Australian CRAWL
TOURING England can be a wasteland for an Aussie car enthusiast. The roads are filled with grim, soulless hatchbacks, lacking in real estate and powered by diesel. As spring turns to summer, older ‘motors’ gradually filter onto the busy, moist roads. But MGs, Healeys and Anglias hardly a street machine make. On my recent travels in the Motherland with my kids, I did see a Calsonic-inspired R34 Skyline, a late-model LHD Dodge Charger R/T, and absolutely flipped my shit over a German-registered Opel Kadett C (aka Holden Gemini). But homesickness is a bitch. Until recently, we Aussies made some bloody good cars – do the Poms know this? Well, apparently some do. I hooked up with a crew of crazy characters who can make the rare claim of driving an Australian car in darkest Pomgolia.
Matthew ‘Swaz’ Swales, 35, Leeds, UK
