The fashions of my youth weren't about clothes (although I did have a Sergio Taccini tracksuit at one point!), they were about something I was much more interested in - BMX. If I'm honest it was the yellow, blue or red tyres and padsets that drew me into the hobby in the first place. A couple of years in and there was a sudden revelation - a 'new' colour - white. White Tuffs, white frames, white brakes, even white tyres...the BMX world turned white overnight and I was hooked. The next lot of Christmas and birthday money was spent on following the white trend, but just as I managed to catch up things changed again...pastel colours started to appear and shortly after day-glo bikes were cropping up too (oh, how I lusted after that neon green Haro Master!).

What has this got to do with cars though? I've always been a tad partial to a splash of the classy cream tone of BL's old English white, but until I got into the Japanese (modified) classic scene white would've been my last choice for a cool looking ride. The Japanese simply don't have the white predujice we've traditionally had here in the UK and as a result quite a few of their rides sport the colour. Just as I was getting used to seeing white in the same way I did back in those BMX days I realised I wasn't alone - some top cars in Worthersee last year were unashamedly flouting the brightest of whites. Suddenly the road test cars sent out to the mags by Ford, Audi and BMW are resplendent in the no-colour colour even scene-meister and legendary wheel-ho Stanton (known as Ryan in the real world) slapped a lick of white paint onto those huge ATS classics worn by that white Golf of his...and this is where things come full circle and we are drawn back into the BMX fashions we started with...wasn't Ryan experimenting with day-glo inserts on those very same rims? Have you seen the Revo's on his fandango'd Polo project? It's happening all over again! It'll be splatter graphics and Don Johnson suit / T-shirt combos in no time! Could this be the time for a revival of the mint green with pink heartbeat graphic'd cars that we all thought were 'rad' at the time?