Many of us will have seen the videos of guys supercharging cars using leaf blowers. While both Roadkill and Mighty Car Mods did their videos tongue-in-cheek one man in Western Sydney wasn't laughing.
Police discovered his home-grown "supercharger" fitted to the airbox of his V6 Holden Commodore this week during a traffic stop. It must work well, considering it was wired into the car's electrical system, and due to the bald and non-legal rear tyres.
Of slightly more concern was the unnamed man testing positive to methamphetamines both roadside and later at the police station. If the drugs made him fit the leaf blower to his car, this just reaffirms the old bumper sticker: meth, not even once.
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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.
For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.
Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions.
Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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