If you went through the painstaking task of grinding down a bag full of trim clip pins just so they fit onto the chrome trim of a 1963 Dodge, chances are good that you would have not only perfected the fine art of creative swearing, but that you might actually figure out how to swear in other languages without knowing it. You’d think that would have been a step skipped for Street Machine’s “Mr. Dodgey” built, but Scotty and the gang did it anyways. And that’s in addition to making the 440ci engine come to life, making it breathe out of the pipes correctly, and making sure that things like the throttle cable actually work properly.

But there is the other part of the equation: the Australian registration process. In order to make the trek to the town of Cobar for the Running on Empty Festival, the Dodge has to be legal. Safety items must be in place, all of the lights need to work, nothing can be leaking…you know, everything that a car built in a few days is going to do, it can’t do.

Scotty is gonna need a beer or three after this, I think.