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Smokeshow
Photography: Simon Davidson
Fashion Direction: Kim Payne
Grooming: Mikele Simone
Digital Operator: David Deas
Assistant: Riley MacPherson
Videography: Stream Dulnoan Peña
Models: Otis / Chadwick & Kwesi / Kult
Words: Alissa Thomas
Special Thanks To: Sydney Motorsport Park Powercruise
Perhaps it’s the scent. The potent, volitant rubber-burn simmering above the asphalt horizon that ignites an inexplicable sense of place and purpose. Or, perhaps it’s the colours. The vision of a polished Commodore in seafoam green, spinning circles on the mottled browns and greys of the tarnished road before erupting a volcanic plume of pink and purple smoke into the atmosphere behind it. Or perhaps it’s the people. The characters, whose names are as kindred to the hallowed garages of Eastern Creek Motorway as the cars themselves. A community of families and comrades who have funnelled their passion for mechanical masterpieces through generations. Photographer Simon Davidson, has become a stalwart persona out here, in the Western suburbs of Sydney, NSW, after more than a decade spent documenting the intriguing fellows and automobiles whose clubs and racing cliques gather here week after week, month after month, year after year. “Everyone [here] is bound by a love of cars, like with most communities, people are brought together by a love of something. They end up gravitating to it, to learn more and spend time with likeminded people,” says Davidson. So while the many visceral and tangible elements of motor sports might create a unified obsession, it’s the locale and the community that creates its lasting impact. It’s the inimitable, serendipitous experience of realising they find joy in the same place others do – the oily, fast-paced, heart-stopping, high-shine, big-burnout, slick-finished haven for only the most dedicated of auto-buffs. As Davidson says “This community, there’s so much passion behind it. There’s a sense of ‘I’m prepared to doing everything in my power to make this work’. And it takes a village to build these cars.”
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