CORNER STORIES

While the nats is just around the corner here's a Low Standards fix to close out 2025. Keen viewers may have seen Jay post about acquiring a pair of Simmons racing wheels earlier this year. And because the Low Standards HQ is cool relics, birthdays and Aussie brand-centric it's a good time to go a littler deeper. Jay remarked the pair had spent significant time in a swamp. So while that means they've developed a bita patina, I'd say they are about on brand for Low Standards . "Yeah, genuine Simmons mags." "Chuck em on a bonfire and get hours of white flames, haha." "You know people used to do that with VW cylinder heads." The barrels are steel, the centres are magnesium - which is where the mag wheels notion originates.  And the tyres, Dunlop Racing - 265/535-13 'FOR RACING PURPOSE ONLY' Older headz than me will also remember when Dunlop manufactured Volley's (amongst other products) . But for an additional eleven bucks...

There's a certain beauty when something is consistent that shouldn't be. Survival I guess. When I was still in school there was an tall old fella who would stroll the neighborhood consistently.  My old man would always try have a chat with him. Overtime we started to watch him slow down and made more of an effort to check on him. As I neared the end of my schooling I learned that his daughter and grand-daughter had been burned alive in an act of domestic violence. I was too young to conceptualise the pain he must have endured. I remember being in the back of Dads car going somewhere when he asked if I remembered the old fella getting about. I felt guttered. I hadn't noticed he'd moved on. I was in Port Lincoln recently where I spied this Chrysler and being rich a minute, I shuffled over for a look-see.  I think this was the first old Mitsubishi logo I'd seen in person. As I meandered around locals came up to me for chat. They told me of the old lady who drives it....

On route to dinner with my grandparents, I was suddenly caught off guard. Aussie EV from the eighties?   According to the Shannons enthusiast page the car was bought in 2008 and the EV conversion completed in 2010.  'Fully electric with ADC X91-4001 motor powered by 40 Lithium Iron Phosphate 90Ah cells through an Australian made ZEVA motor controller. www.evric.kestar.com.au'   After some deep thinking, I think this is actually a pretty cool project. A good use of an otherwise ugly car, likely destined for an unfair life.