Nigel Petrie
The Future of ETS
The clocks just about to hit midnight and the calendars rolling over into 2019, what a year 2018 has been and what a year I am about to have in 2019. If you have read these pages then you may have gue...
Hilux ft Falken tyres at Summernats 2019
I’ll start this post off by explaining how good it feels to drive this machine. An electric mix of emotions and feelings. The MotorEx demos cemented that its a a really fun car to drive, when I ...
ETS Garage – Signing off for 2018
What a year it has been, if you scroll back through the posts of 2018 you will see a heap of progress over this year. I made a promise to myself this time last year to concentrate on driving, riding a...
Stacking Cars – Q&A Video
You may remember a post titled Stacking cars a little while back when I built these car racks and if you’re looking to do the same thing I have the plans and full how to project video available ...
Drive and Ride at Revival 2018
Let me just say that this BMW R Nine TE Racer project has been an immensely fun little build. Not only did it allow me to create a vision I had for a long time but it has given me a lot of new experie...
WTAC 2018 – The combo deal
I have lost count of how many WTAC events I have been to. In the early days I was there as a driver, then I started combining a trade stand with my driving duties, then the support for ETS grew to a p...
The BMW R Nine TE Racer
They are two very different worlds, cars and motorcycles. I know a bunch of motorcycle enthusiasts that have absolutely no interest in cars and vice versa. Through my social outlets I waver between tw...
Gold Coast to home via the Bathurst 1000
Following on from my last post where I drove our 1965 Econoline up to the RedBull Day in the Dirt I stored my van at my sister in laws on the Gold Coast and flew back home waiting for the perfect oppo...
RSW x SWS x ETS TIG Night
Too many three letter acronyms for you? Well I’ll expand it out, Rising Sun Workshop in Newtown Sydney is a communal home for motorcycle lovers, it gives RSW members a garage to work on their ow...