defining car culture 021PLAYERS CLASSIC
Meguiar’s build-off
You should be pretty familiar with
these boys and their high-octane build-
off, as we’ve been documenting their
projects in our Staff Cars pages for a
while. But when Tom and Dale pulled
the covers off their respective cars on
the Meguiar’s stand, everyone’s jaws
fell to the floor. (We’re pretty sure we
saw a few monocles falling into mint
juleps too – this is Goodwood, after
all.) You see, the lads had been a bit
sneaky, giving away only the juiciest
titbits about the builds in their mag
updates, and providing some fairly
dramatic updates on Instagram –
largely showing rotten cars in bits and
saying ‘Oh crap, the show’s only a week
away’ – so the flawless and pristine
cars they unveiled at the Classic simply
blew everyone away. Tom’s Dimma-
kitted GT Turbo is a period-perfect
masterpiece with a few modern twists,
not least the sublime Renaultsport
Liquid Yellow paint that really popped
in the sunshine. And similarly sparkly
was the metalflake roof on Dale’s Merc,
the badass saloon looking phenomenal
sitting down there in the weeds on its
mighty colour-coded steels. Obviously
we had to shoot both cars for a full
feature, they were too incredible not to.
See pages 12-18 for that!KEAN Pantera
No-one builds a show car like KEAN Suspensions. If you were at last year’s Players Classic, you may remember them rolling in convoy in a bagged Ferrari 308
GTB, an Apple-liveried RWB 911, and a lurid yellow E46 M3 dripping in custom carbon. How do you top that? Well, the KEAN team were on their way back from
Wörthersee in their latest build, so it seemed rude not to pop over to Goodwood and see a few friendly faces. And yes, as you might imagine, the majesty of their
creation fully shut the place down: a De Tomaso Pantera, bagged and wide-arched, wearing a set of rims so absurdly deeply-dished that you could pretty much
climb inside and run around like a hamster in an exercise wheel.
Once again, these dudes knocked it out of the park. Obviously it won Best In Show. Of course it did. But you have to wonder were on earth they can go from here...