Win the last Copy of Carl*s Cars

As much as High Gear Monthly (okay, that’s not a real title…) would have you believe, a healthy interest in cars doesn’t have to make you a ‘car person’, with a denial of any interests outside the garage. As the first quarterly mag to successfully make car culture as aesthetically pleasing as a Polaroid snap, Carl*s Cars is a Norwegian gem that seeks to use vehicles as a means to make vehicles and culture park parallel. From gloomy underground garages to the scribbles of Justin Timberlake, this boutique mag’s love of people, cars and lifestyle even led the team to the far reaches of Finland, simply to visit some obscure town called Autotehtaankatu. Now that’s dedication to your mufflers.

Edition 27 of this innovative little publication features a great feature profiling the infamous French Citroën “surgeon” Jean Blondeau, a photoshoot in the parking lot of Monte Carlo Casino, and a rather lovely look at the rides of Norwegian psychedelic-rock group Serena Maneesh. According to lead singer Emil Nikolaisen, if the band were indeed a vehicle, they would be some “blurby, slurpy, silver machine on its way down the expressway to your skull.” Wow, both smooth AND creepy. In a fusion of fashion, culture, music, photography, social nuances and… well… cars (obviously), the illusive “Carl” and friends have crafted a wonderfully slick little pageturner that (unsurprisingly) has just about sold out at Mag Nation.

So here’s the clincher. With just ONE copy left in our Melbourne store, we would rather make this fair game than disappoint the masses.

To win the final copy of Carl’s paper drive, simply tell us the craziest thing you’ve ever done in a car. High-speed chases, laundry en route, letterbox baseball- anything remotely ridiculous at 80km/hr could snare you the final copy of Norway’s finest car culture magazine. (Mag Nation edit after a day of reflection… No. We don’t really want to hear about speed or vandalism. Crazy stuff in a car yes, but please ensure it is legal or at least socially responsible. Speed does kill folks). Editor Karl Eirik Haug claims he used his Citroën DS as an office, a bedroom and a “meeting place for independent thinkers” all over Scandinavia. Surely now, you can do better than that. Enter your responses in the comments field below.

NB. Alfa Romeos, keep your tales reasonably clean… we sure won’t publish gear-changing backseat motoring adventures, unless it’s creatively written in haiku.

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