Santa checks out a hot ride for Christmas … Wayne Streeting’s 1939 Willys 
Riley White, 6, travelled all the way from Tanah Merah for the Christmas Lights Cruise … he’s pictured in Santa’s preferred mode of transport a Ford T-Bucket

December 6, 2013

Santa usually travels either by reindeer power, or a one horsepower open sleigh … so a many-horsepower hotrod can make a nice change.

The South Burnett Gas Guzzlers invited Father Christmas along on their annual Christmas Lights Cruise in Kingaroy on Friday night.

The cruise – which was an authorised Australian Street Rod Federation event – saw Santa in a green T-bucket lead a procession of hotrods and street machines on a tour of Christmas lights in town.

Along the way, they distributed sweets.

The annual Christmas Cruise has been happening for about 10 years but has been organised by the Gas Guzzlers for the last five years.

Club spokesman Terry Mackrell said the Gas Guzzlers had some exciting things happening.

Construction of their new clubhouse in Nanango will begin soon.