He salvaged a bodyshell of a 1969 Holden HT Monaro GTS from a farm at the foot of the Maungatua Range in 1994. For the restoration project, he decided to build a road-legal tribute to Norm Beechey’s Number 4 HT Monaro — the first Australian-made vehicle to win the Australian Touring Car Championship. The dream had always been to own an HT Monaro GTS. His hair continued to grow as the project slowly progressed — a ‘‘long, drawn-out process’’ of finding parts and working late nights and weekends in the garage. But the hair was never cut, and reached his lower back when the project was finished at Easter.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 20, 2019 16:30 UTC