JC: When did your passion for cars materialize?
RN: When I was eighteen. I have always loved cars, before I had my drivers license I was playing with my parents cars. Putting stereos in, changing the tyres, you know, fiddling around. When I was eighteen and got my first car was when it really started. I am trying to slim it down a bit right now but not being very successful at it.
JC: You had a Hearse for a while?
RN: I still have it but it is for sale right now. I had the monster truck thing and I have a new truck that will be here on Maui soon. This one is going to blow your **cking mind!
JC: Your 50th present to yourself?
RN: I am driving my wife’s truck right now, which is just a normal truck, truck!
JC: I thought you looked a little bit understated when you rolled in the drive way!
RN: We needed a ‘regular’ truck because my other one was too big. I sold that. I am selling the Hearse and have the new one coming. I still have three Porsches so the barn is pretty full. With the Hearse I wanted an American Hot Rod. It was built in 1963, the same age as me. Then I thought I might as well get something I can put gear in. That is when the Hearse idea came up. I don’t drive it enough, maybe two or three times a year. It’s a fricken’ cool car to have sitting that much. I also need the parking space because the new truck I bought won’t fit unless the Hearse is gone.
This truck is a whole new level of big! Its ridiculous big! This is the world’s going to hate me big. I like cars and I don’t get to drive them that much. It still gets pretty good mileage considering it’s a 12,500lb truck. It is almost three times the weight of my last big truck. I bought it in Georgia and I drove it last week across the USA to San Diego, thirty seven hours driving! It is one bad ass truck. It is a Ford F650 converted to a pick up. It has air brakes, quad cab and a caterpillar 300 diesel turbo engine in it. 860 lbs of torque. The turbo makes thirty pounds of boost. The thing is just a monster.
JC: Colour?
RN: All black. With blackened windows and all blinged out. Police strobes on the front, a strobe kit on all four corners and ear bleeding train horns. I remember you did a story JC, years ago with everyone’s trucks. Well now I win the battle! You have to climb up stairs to get into this one. It has even got twin polished aluminium tanks on each side. It is really stupid! I am not sure if I will even be able to get down past pavilions in it.