DRIVING INNOVATION

EVER WISH YOU COULD HAVE A BRAND-NEW VERSION OF AN ICONIC 1970s AUSSIE MUSCLE CAR, FULL OF THE LATEST TECH? DRIVE SOUTH IS WORKING TO MAKE THAT A REALITY

- KIAN HEAGNEY

WE ALL pine for the lost 70s Aussie classics, lamenting the ones that got away and the missed opportunity to spec and order one brand new. But Andrew South reckons all is not lost: he plans to build brandnew cars with iconic 1970s looks but with modern running gear, under the name Drive South.

Andrew says the idea came to him when he was en route to pick up some beaten-up car parts. "As I was driving there, I was thinking, what am I doing? I'm buying all these parts; it's costing me a fortune and I gotta restore them," he says. "Why don't I build a new car? Is that such a crazy idea? What would that look like?"

As he already owns an original LX Torana built for events like Targa Tasmania, it made sense to Andy to model his first car off that Aussie muscle icon.