Australians are good at being a bit mental; a theory artfully substantiated by Gary Myers at the Summernats muscle car festival in Canberra.

During the burnout battle at this year’s four-day-long event, he fitted a set of purple tyres to his redonculously tuned 1972 Ford Falcon XA Coupe. Then sacrificed them to the god of awesome.

Now get some purple haze all in your eyes.