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Making the eight-hour, 720km journey from Townsville to Rare Spares Rockynats was all about having fun for Shane Cattle.
The proud Chrysler enthusiast was one of countless Rockynats entrants who continuously looped back around to Quay Street on Saturday to race in the street drag eliminations.
âI came down from Townsville because it sounded like a bit of fun, so I thought lets do it,â he said. Shane Cattle launches off the line in his 440 big block Dodge hard top against a R35 Skyline GTR in the Rockynats street drags. Picture: Rodney Stevens
The modified car enthusiast said coming to Rockynats was a family affair for the Cattleâs.
9am – 4pm: Kids Activities – Free Carnival Rides
9am – 11am: Movie – Cars 2 (PG)
10.15am – 11am: Live Music – Will Lutton
11am – 1pm: Movie – Cars 3 (G)
11.15am – 12pm: Live Music – Will Lutton
12.30pm – 1.15pm: Live Music – Relic
1pm – 3pm: Movie – Bumblebee (PG)
1.30pm – 2.15pm: Live Music – Relic
2.45pm – 3.30pm: Live Music – Zac Cross
4pm – 4.40pm: Live Music – Zac Cross
5.45pm – 6.30pm: Live Music – Side Hustle
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Preparations have hit top gear with the spectacular start to the inaugural Rare Spare Rockynats just fewer than 24 hours away.
Thousands of spectators and entrants are descending on Rockhampton for Queensland’s biggest car festival, which starts at 11.30am Friday with an 800-car street parade through the city’s CBD.
The jam-packed program, which runs across the Easter weekend, also includes street drags, burnouts, drifting and a show ‘n’ shine in which hundreds of custom and classic street machines will be parked along the historic Quay Street.
Advance Rockhampton manager of tourism, marketing and events, Annette Pearce, said it was exciting to see Rockynats coming to fruition, almost a year after the event was postponed in 2020 due to COVID.
The Monday Q&A: Raj Patel of Midtown Motors
10 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Raj Patel in front of his 1970 Ford Falcon at Midtown Motors on Wilson St. Photo / Bevan Conley
Raj Patel in front of his 1970 Ford Falcon at Midtown Motors on Wilson St. Photo / Bevan Conley
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Raj Patel has been in the automotive industry in Whanganui since 1994 and is now the owner of Midtown Motors with his wife Janine.
An active member of Whanganui Road Rodders, Patel is organising the annual Street Drags event to be held on Taupo Quay on February 27.