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MONSTER 212-PAGE ISSUE SEMA SHOW SUMMERNATS 34 SURVIVAL GUIDE BROADCAST

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SUPER ROO! HAPPY New Year, and thanks for They say you never forget your first, and mine
The big-block XW GT Ford should have built picking up the January 2022 was Summernats 10. My old man took my
BILLET HOLDEN V8 MR SUMMERNATS issue of Street Machine – all 212 brother and I along to the event, and without
pages of it! There’s plenty to be exaggeration, it changed me forever. As an
WEBSITE excited about this year, but right now we’re impressionable 13-year-old car nut, it was
streetmachine.com.au particularly stoked about the return of Street an absolute sensory delight. The cars were
Machine Summernats after a one-year hiatus just incredible, but of all of them, Ed Brodie’s
EMAIL thanks to bastard COVID. MRHJ Holden and Rhonda Zelukovic’s
[email protected] Studebaker particularly impressed me, and
The mail is that Summernats 34 is going to they remain among my all-time personal
STREET MACHINE MERCH be the biggest and beautest ’Nats ever, with favourites.
shop.streetmachine.com.au a record 2500 entrants, an all-new Fringe
Festival that promises to take Summernats Inspired by what I saw, later that year I
FACEBOOK to the streets of Canberra, and a staggering dragged a catastrophically rusty LC Torana
streetmachinemagazine two-dozen, never-before-seen, high-end out of a paddock with dreams of one day
street machines being unveiled on Friday taking it to Summernats with my mates. I’m
INSTAGRAM night during the Great Meguiar’s Uncover lucky enough to have been able to do that a
streetmachinemag (p.10). Personally, I’m most excited about handful of times since, and across the past 25

YOUTUBE ED BRODIE’S MRHJ HOLDEN AND RHONDA
STREETMACHINETV ZELUKOVIC’S STUDEBAKER PARTICULARLY

MAIL IMPRESSED ME, AND THEY REMAIN
Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, AMONG MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITES

Oakleigh, Vic 3166 checking out all the new builds, and I’m sure years I’ve managed to experience the event
we’ll showcase plenty of them in the mag as a punter, an entrant, a trader, and as media.
EDITORIAL this year.
(03) 9567 4200 That’s my Summernats story, and I wouldn’t
This issue, we are fortunate enough to mind betting that most people in our scene
SUBSCRIPTION ENQUIRIES be able to bring you one of the cars to be can relate to it at some level. And having
[email protected] unveiled at the event: Jason Mansweto’s epic skipped a year, the return of Summernats
XW Falcon. The car has plenty of history and to the calendar has got us feeling especially
(02) 8315 2092 has long been a fixture of the Aussie street- nostalgic, so we’re honouring the godfather
9am-5pm (EST) Mon-Fri and-strip scene, but its latest incarnation is of Summernats (and champion fella) Chic
something else entirely. You can read about it Henry as this issue’s Legend (p.26), and
FREE NEWSLETTER! in detail from page 36, but the elevator pitch taking a look back at some of the pivotal
Scan the code: is that it is the embodiment of what Jason moments in the formative years of the event
believes a factory Drag Pack XW would have (p.117). Then of course there’s our annual
been like, but cranked up to 11. It’s powered Summernats Survival Guide (p.199), which
by a 1200hp big-block Ford, plumbed with I fondly recall studying with wild anticipation
500hp worth of spray for a cumulative shit- when I was a young bloke.
ton of grunt, and should run into the sevens.
But it’s the brilliantly nuanced subtleties But now more than ever, I’m hanging to
of this car that must be studied to be truly get down to Canberra for Australia’s biggest
appreciated, so don’t miss the opportunity to horsepower party, and I hope to catch you
do exactly that at Summernats. there for a slushie.

The ’Nats really is the pinnacle of car Cheers,
festivals in Australia, and arguably the world. Broads

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CONTENTS

JANUARY 2022 | VOLUME 42 | ISSUE 1

026 > FEATURES 052
072
088 26 LEGEND: CHIC HENRY SEMA 2021
138 Sitting down with the man who started the
199 Summernats juggernaut over three decades ago The gargantuan Las Vegas
trade expo makes a strong
72 BRIGHT ROD RUN post-COVID return
2021’s unofficial run was a resounding success,
with a super-diverse turnout of quality cars 110

88 ADELAIDE AUTO EXPO JEWEL IN
South Aussies get treated to a second helping for THE ROUGH
2021 of Adelaide’s iconic car extravaganza
Mario Girbin keeps it simple
102 LAKESIDE FATHER’S DAY BASH with his timeless Valiant
True-blue rides take over the Queensland circuit for hardtop
a relaxed day of cruising, drags and show ’n’ shine

117 A HISTORY OF SUMMERNATS
A look back at some of the greatest moments of
Australia’s premier horsepower fest

138 TECH: BILLET BLOCKS
They’re the new hotness, but what makes billet
engine blocks so special?

199 SUMMERNATS SURVIVAL GUIDE
Here’s how to make the most of a huge Street
Machine Summernats 34

> REGULARS

05 BROADCAST 10 NEWS FRONT 14 PEOPLE LIKE US
16 SNAPSHOTS 18 FANGING FLICK 21 YOUR STUFF
138 TECH TORQUE 146 DIRTY STUFF 148 TIME MACHINE
152 EXPRESSION SESSION 158 DRAG CHALLENGE
164 YOUNG GUN 168 IN THE BUILD 172 IRON MAIDEN
176 URBAN WARFARE 180 IN GEAR 184 READERS’
ROCKETS 192 LOL 194 SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY
210 MILL OF THE MONTH

210

036

REVOLUTIONARY RETURN

Jason Mansweto’s XW Falcon has undergone a
stunning rebirth, with huge cubes to match

044 ANGER MANAGEMENT
This plastic-powered HZ took a Summernats
Top 60 spot before it was even finished!

PUMP ACTION

Justin Hunt’s super-tough HK Prem rocks

060plenty of 80s pro street style
066 DREAM CATCHERLouis Younis finally got his hands on a coveted

’57 Chev and created this blown stunner

FINE LIMEWith a 393ci Clevo and four-cog ’box, Jamie

082Skews’s eye-grabbing XA doesn’t muck around

096 OLD’S COOL

This LX sedan blends traditional stlying with some
modern tech for a stout streeter

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STORY KIAN HEAGNEY PHOTOS SM ARCHIVES

BRAND NEW HEAVIES

> A SNEAK PEEK AT SOME OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED CARS SET TO DEBUT AT STREET MACHINE
SUMMERNATS 34

ONE of the biggest drawcards at it really special, because it’s such a big deal unveiled at ’Nats ’34 are on target to make
Street Machine Summernats is for these people. We’ve been working really the deadline. “All the builds are tracking
the Elite Hall unveilings, where hard on that behind the scenes.” really well; a lot of these cars are four- or
the public gets to lay eyes on five-year builds,” Owen says. “And with the
incredible new creations for the first time. As a long-time Summernats judge, Owen break we’ve had from shows recently, it
And the line-up of Elite-level debutants at has seen build trends come and go, but he seems like everyone has had the time and
Summernats 34 is set to be one for the books. reckons the pendulum may be swinging back the resources to finish these cars to an even
to full-tilt Elite builds. ”The genres of cars higher standard.”
“This year’s Great Meguiar’s Uncover is by that people build are cyclical,” he says. “We
far the biggest unveiling of brand-new cars haven’t seen many full Elite builds in recent Check out the opposite page for a small
we’ve ever had, anywhere in Australia,” says years, but this year we have half-a-dozen full- slice of some of the killer metal that will be
’Nats chief steward Owen Webb. “There’ll blown, well-built Elite cars. We also have a having the covers pulled off on the Friday
be over 20 cars on the Friday night, and it’s couple of concours restored cars, and some night. And be sure to have a gander at Jason
so big that we’re having to bump everyone in very highly modified stuff, from hot rods to Mansweto’s mental XW on page 36 – it is
over the preceding two nights. Even though muscle cars.” also being unveiled at the ’Nats, but you can
we have so many cars, we still want to make
So far, all the works-in-progress set to be read about it here first! s

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HUD JOHNSTON MICHELLE WHITE
1934 FORD COUPE HZ PREMIER

FROM the early 90s right through to MICHELLE White is a proper, dyed-in-
the debut of a wild custom FJ Holden at the-wool car chick. Her HZ Premier has
Summernats 24, Hud Johnston and his late been her pride and joy for years, and many
father Rod brought a series of cool, budget- Western Sydney readers will have spotted
built creations from their home in Wongarbon, it parked outside her work at Rare Spares in
NSW to unveil at the ’Nats. Prospect at one time or another.

Rod passed away in 2016 at the age of 79, Well, it’s probably not going to be her daily
and since then, Hud has been hard at work driver anymore, with the gurus at ProFlo
completing a ’34 Ford coupe that Rod began Performance having treated it to one hell of
building many years ago. The coupe actually a blown and injected birthday, along with the
sat inside the Johnston homestead for many good looks to match the grunt.
years, with a wall needing to be pulled down
to extricate the car! “I’ve put my heart and soul into this car,
and she will be a complete reflection of my
Like all Johnston creations, the coupe is personality,” says Michelle. “I’m excited to
bristling with custom touches and fastidious show it to the world!”
metal polishing, and is powered by an old-
school Falcon six, just as Rod intended. FULL THROTTLE CUSTOM GARAGE
VL CALAIS
NATHAN GIUNCO
XE FALCON THE team at Full Throttle Custom Garage
in Newcastle have gone full VL Turbo
KEEN-eyed readers will remember Nathan on this incredible Calais. Rolling on
Giunco’s stunning Barra from Mill of the enormous Simmons FRs, the car will have
Month, circa December 2019. Screwed a considerable grip on the earth, and it’s
together by ProFlo Performance, the going to need it too, as it’s packing what we
BA-blocked combo runs an 88mm Precision can only describe as a no-expense-spared
turbocharger and bulletproof internals, and RB engine package, built around a billet
features next-level detailing. The car itself also block.
contains a stack of ProFlo mojo, so you know
it is going to be crazy-neat and tough as hell. In true Calais style, it will feature all the
bells and whistles despite having monstrous
“The XE has been in the build for roughly amounts of power, and is being built as a
10 years now,” Nathan says. “I had three genuine street car.
main goals for the build: to get 1000hp at
the tyres, run an eight-second pass, and As you read this, the team will be putting
powerskid the whole main straight of Eastern the finishing touches on the car ahead of its
Creek at Powercruise.” debut at Summernats. “It’ll be down to the
wire!” reckons Full Throttle’s Adam Lever.

ABOVE: The final car Rod BELOW: Nathan DELUXE ROD SHOP STREET ELITE INDUSTRIES
and Hud Johnston debuted Giunco’s Barra FX HOLDEN LC TORANA
at Summernats together will be good for
was this wild, Toyota Hemi- 1000hp any day STEVE Alldrick and the crew from Deluxe COREY Phie from Street Elite Industries
powered FJ. For ’Nats ’34, Hud of the week Rod Shop are no strangers to the Great in Brisbane knows a thing or two about
will complete his late father’s Meguiar’s Uncover, having unveiled 10 cars building seriously gnarly street cars, and
1934 coupe build in 10 years! his latest creation bound for the Elite Hall is
said to be his best yet.
For Summernats 34, they’ve got a sleek,
aspirated LS-powered FX Holden in the The car in question is a genuine LC GTR
works, tipped to be built with a pretty Torana, rocking an LS7, paddle-shifted auto
serious sleeper theme. Steve and the crew and a pair of huge 68mm turbos hidden
know how to build Elite-level drivers, so we underneath the raised rear floor in front of
wouldn’t be surprised to find this thing in the the diff. The cooler piping for the twin-turbo
Grand Champion race as well. system is routed within the extended sills,
while the whole body sits on a brand-new
JOVAN BATAR chassis from BMV Engineering.
HK MONARO
TRENT CARTER
JOVAN’S FATXE Falcon was a Top 60 car 1970 PLYMOUTH ’CUDA
at Summernats 33, but for his latest build,
he’s jumped shipped to the General with a RIDES By Kam’s latest blockbuster is a ’70
stunning HK Monaro. ’Cuda for customer Trent Carter. The car is
being built to a high-end pro touring theme,
Jovan is targeting a tough-as-nails outlaw with an R5P7 NASCAR mill tied to a four-
street car vibe, with an injected ProFlo rat speed Richmond Super T-10 ’box, along
motor up front and massive rubber on the with mouth-watering custom bodywork
rear – but with a healthy dose of GTS styling throughout.
as well.

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NEWS FRONT > HOT GOSSIP

JANUARY 2022: ALL THE NEWS THAT MATTERS HISTORY REPEATS

STORY JACK HOULIHAN IT’S been a mammoth year for classic car
auctions, and Shannons offered some truly
historic metal in November as part of its massive
40th-anniversary online auction. The original
GTHO Phase III Falcon that headlined the auction
was the same car that originally set the tone
for GTHO prices way back in 2007, when it was
bought at auction by the late Darryl Mattingley
for $683,650. Darryl also had the first and last
CV8 Monaros ever built in his collection, which,
like the GTHO, are super-low milers and were
also included in the Shannons auction. The first
Monaro sold for $130K and the last for $230K, and
while the GTHO’s final sale figure is undisclosed,
we do know bidding surpassed $930K before the
hammer fell, showing the market is not slowing
down anytime soon.

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PREMIERE IN FEBRUARY Drag Challenge Weekend in Victoria, which is
going down 25-27 March. Drag Challenge events
ANEW feature-length documentary from an outsider’s perspective. typically sell out in no time flat, so make sure
celebrating the huge, internationally How did you go about capturing the you’re quick on the draw to avoid disappointment.
spanning influence of Mad Max is about to international Mad Max scene? Head to dragchallenge.com.au to enter, and for
hit Aussie screens. Beyond the Wasteland In Clunes we met guys like Yoshi from Japan and all the information on the event for entrants and
explores the lives and stories of superfans of the Jim Dorsey from the US. We wanted to gauge what spectators alike. This one is going to be big!
film franchise, who remain engrossed more than 40 the fanbase was like in Australia first, but always
years after the original flick’s release. had the ambition to go overseas. Fans organised NEXT!
their own events for the documentary: Jared Butler
Filmed over six months in Australia, the US, Italy, from Wasteland Weekend organised a Wasteland WHATEVER you do, don’t miss the February 2022
France, Germany and Japan, the doco captures a car show in LA; there was a private event in Italy; issue of Street Machine! We’ll be bringing you all
number of fan events, including America’s Wasteland and the Japanese guys put an event together for us, the action from what promises to be the biggest
Weekend and the Search For Max 40th-anniversary which was great. Street Machine Summernats ever, not to mention
event in Clunes, Victoria. Can we expect a bit of car action, too? Supernats at Winton and a summer show special
There’s definitely car action! The vehicles were featuring the Ford-Powered Nationals, Torana
Central to the documentary is the experience of the their own unique characters in the films, too, so Muscle On The Murray, the Showcars Melbourne
late Bertrand Cadart, who worked on Mad Max bike there’s definitely a lot of influence. We’ve even got event at St Kilda and more. We have a stellar
designs and played Toecutter Gang member Clunk. an Interceptor at a drag strip! The appreciation of feature-car line-up, too, including a knockout
Aussie muscle cars is a big thing, and I think the fans pro touring Holden; an impossibly fast, all-
We caught up with Beyond the Wasteland director here will appreciate the respect for these vehicles motor Clevo-powered XY; a gorgeous twin-turbo
and producer Eddie Beyrouthy to learn more about being showcased in Japan and the US. There were LS-powered VL; and a killer ’Cuda that debuted
the project. probably 30-40 Australian cars at the Japanese at the recent Adelaide Auto Expo. The February
event. We got plenty of archival footage through the issue goes on sale 27 January. Get amongst it!
How did the documentary come to be? National Film & Sound Archive too, which was great.
I’d known Bertrand Cadart for about 10 years. He It’s not a behind-the-scenes documentary, it’s more
called me in August 2018 and told me about a series about the fans, culture, machines and everything
of Mad Max 40th-anniversary events beginning in else that embraces that world.
2019, and asked if we’d be keen to go along for
a documentary. After some research and planning BEYOND the Wasteland will have its world premiere
with co-producer Phil Lambert, the journey to follow at 8:45pm on 5 February at Coburg Village Drive-In,
Bertrand Cadart began in January 2019. We went Melbourne, followed by a Q&A session with Eddie
from Queensland to Clunes, and then Broken Hill Beyrouthy and producer Phil Lambert. Drive-in and
and Silverton. We met a lot of people who were very seated screenings and Q&As will also be held in
open to being involved in the documentary, and it Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia
just grew from there. across February. For dates and ticket information,
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lived and breathed Mad Max as much as these fans
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PEOPLE LIKE US

STORY & PHOTOS ASHLEIGH WILSON

LUKE ROSADI control. I did my first few races in Mackay when system, which included the Nexus R5 and the
it was running the cammed LS with an exhaust i7 dash. Because the car is completely hand-
> HALIFAX, QUEENSLAND system and extractors. A year later, I put the controlled, we had a lot of extra options hooked
supercharger on it and started making plans for up to the interface so everything is accessible
WE SPOTTED Luke Rosadi the new engine combo. for me. It’s got buttons so I can easily check the
racing his hand-controlled, twin- traction control, oil and the solenoid gearbox. The
turbo VE Maloo in the finals at How’s the new combo treating you? TH400 is set up to change gears automatically,
Mackay’s Sugar City Powerfest Really good. We swapped the LS3 for the 427ci so I never have to remove my hands from the
back in September. We recently caught up Dart block. It’s a 7.0-litre and has a set of twin steering wheel while I’m racing. The controls for
with the inspirational 29-year-old to talk about G35 Garrett turbos. Our biggest struggle has the bump box and a scramble button are on the
his 1600hp ute, and his mission to become the been putting the power down on the track, so wheel, so if I need to get over the line I can hit
world’s fastest paraplegic down the quarter- we’ve been running it on low boost until we can that and add around five pounds of boost. Once
mile. get to a track with better grip. I get the green light and release the transbrake
button, all I have to worry about is keeping it
When did you first get into racing? What’s your best time? straight. It even pulls the ’chute for me!
I started racing Motocross when I was 15 and My PB is 8.6@157mph down the quarter, but
competed up until I had my accident on track my goal is to run a seven and become the world’s Once you’ve cracked the sevens, what’s
in 2010. After that, I spent a while just sitting fastest paraplegic. I’m not far off it! We’re hoping
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GARRY JOHNSTONE

> MACKAY, QUEENSLAND

PART two of our look into the hot-car 245, column auto and knee-freezer air con. We and doing a closed-door respray in the original
history of Garry Johnstone (see SM, Dec owned that car for the next 17 years – that’s me colour. Unfortunately, a lack of storage space saw
’21 for part one) offers a veritable who’s- as a 15-year-old in the pic with Mum – and while me sell this gorgeous car yet again. I still know
who of iconic Aussie models. While my mates’ parents had ‘modern’ XE Falcons and where it is, but the new owner loves it and he’s
many of the rides you see here are long gone, VH Commodores, we had the Val. In all honesty, not interested in selling. I don’t really blame him.”
a couple of Garry’s favourites were sold only to it was a fantastic car; we aren’t a religious family,
find their way back home again – some of them but this was truly God’s Valiant!” 03: IT’S not just the HD that Garry owned more
more than once!
02: GARRY bought this HD Premier from a than once. This HX ute, affectionately known
01: GARRY recalls the moment in 1981 when as Jimmy, has come and gone a few times, too.
good mate who used it to do the weekly 320km “The fascination with Jimmy comes from the
his family quite suddenly found themselves in round trip from Mackay to the mine where they fact that my first car was an HX ute,” he says.
need of a new car. “We were travelling home both worked. “The first time I saw it in the car “My parents were adamant that there was no
from Cairns to Dysart when a piece of the bullbar park, I remember thinking what an ugly-looking way I was allowed to get a V8 as my first car.
fell off our XW wagon and took out its exhaust model the HD was,” he says. “Then one day I No matter how hard I begged, it seemed I was
system,” he says. “This was the final nail in the saw it with the door open and that red interior destined to drive a six-cylinder. In the meantime,
coffin for this otherwise trusty old girl and a was amazing – almost perfect condition and a 253-powered, four-speed HX ute popped up
new car was in order. We arrived at Noel Gould completely original. I started looking over the car for sale in the little mining town where we lived.
Motors in Townsville on a Sunday arvo; naturally, and I couldn’t believe how good it was. That was Dad knew the bloke who owned it, and to my
it was closed, but we went for a look around the it; I was in love. I think I paid $3500 for it and amazement I was allowed to buy it. Just like that,
yard. My dad Dave sidled up next to a dark blue drove it everywhere. Definitely one of the best- I had a thongslapper! That ute is long gone, but
XC Fairmont hardtop sporting a 351 and auto driving cars I’ve ever owned. I sold it to another I’ve owned Jimmy on and off for the past 12 years
and asked my mum, “What do you reckon about mate who was my best man at our wedding, then or so; in that time I’ve let him go twice for a total
this one, Julie?” I swear my eight-year-old heart bought it back a few years later. After a couple of about three years. I was worried I wouldn’t get
skipped a beat in anticipation. Unfortunately, it of years I sold it to another close friend, then him back the last time, so he won’t be leaving
was a no; my ever-practical mum had spied a luckily it found its way back home again! This time again! The plan is to leave him looking as-is but
bright orange CL Valiant wagon packing a Hemi around I ended up cutting out some minor rust add tough running gear.

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04: ANOTHER great car from Garry’s past was this 5 3
6 4
L31 308/M21 four-speed yellow VK chaser. The
guy that owned it was a Mackay local, but the car 7
itself was a 20-hour return trip from home. Never
one to shy away from a road trip adventure, Garry 017STREET MACHINE
hooked up the car trailer and off he went. “I pretty
much bought this car sight-unseen,” he says. “The
seller assured me it was clean and he seemed
like a decent bloke. I was very happily surprised
when I saw the VK in the flesh; it was such a good,
clean example. The original engine block was
gone, having been replaced with a red 308 from
a Torana, but the proper intake manifold, B-cast
heads and baffled sump were all still fitted. The
body was mint, too, and it still had all the tell-tale
BT1 trinkets like the ashtrays in the front armrests,
door pockets and fine-increment speedo. What an
awesome car.”

05: HERE’S one Garry definitely regrets selling.

“I bought this XY GT replica from a very talented
‘backyarder’ in western Queensland. This guy was
as handy as a little saucepan; he did the body,
paint, built the engine – you name it. It drove so
well – a mild 351 Cleveland, super-smooth T5
from a 90s XR8, and, of course, a nine-inch diff.
I don’t ever remember owning a car that turned
more heads than this one. I’d pull up at traffic
lights and people would wind down their windows
just to listen to it, or they’d be hanging out of their
cars taking pictures. It wasn’t a show car; it was
even better than that – an awesome daily driver!
This XY was perfect, and I have no doubt that the
hindsight of already selling it will come back and
sting me in the arse.”

06: NOTHING screams period Australian street

machine like a red EH ute rolling on Dragway
Indys. “Wow, what a car this was,” Garry says.
“A 202 six-cylinder stroked to 235 cubes using
a Falcon crank, big camshaft, triple Solex carbs,
a T5 manual and narrowed One Tonner Salisbury
diff. It was a really cool 90s-spec EH ute that made
200rwhp at 6800rpm. It was advertised locally but
situated a few hours west of Mackay. The guy had
a pretty big number on it – for that time, anyway –
which I guess scared a few people off. It was for
sale for ages, but eventually it got to a point where
I could afford it. I owned it for a few years and then
sold it on. I’m fairly sure it’s still in town.”

07: GARRY has been lucky to own quite a few

HK Monaros over the years. “This one was the
only base-model, non-GTS Monaro I ever had,
and it was also the last one I owned,” he says.
“I’d placed a wanted ad in the local newspaper
looking for an old Holden project. It was Saturday
morning and I was taking the kids to their weekly
netball and football commitments when the phone
rang: “Hi mate, I’ve got this HK Monaro I want to
get rid of; you interested?” I looked at it that day,
then rang my wife Pam and said to her: “I’m not
sure how we’re going to do it, but we’re buying
this thing.” Performance-wise, it was nothing to
rave about – just a trusty old 186 and Powerglide

– but I loved it.” s

FANGING FLICK COOL FLICK FACT:
King of the Mountain
STORY SIMON MAJOR was based on Thunder
Road (left), David Barry’s
1978 investigative feature
story in New West

magazine

KING OF THE MOUNTAIN 1981
> THE RACE. THE RISK. THE DANGER.
BREAKDOWN Adams, still sporting a bodacious beard!) for some
DURING daylight hours, Los Angeles local Steve sensible advice, which he promptly ignores. Steve figures
VEHICLES: Porsche 356 (Hamlin) wrenches on Porsches. But when the Cal is the reason behind all of his troubles and engages
Speedster replica, 1967 sun goes down, so does the gas pedal, as he him in a final duel to decide who really is the king.
Chevrolet Corvette, 1969 Ford races around the winding hills of Mulholland
Mustang, 1956 Ford F100, 1979 Drive in his hotted-up Porsche Speedster (actually a An epiphany mid-race causes Steve to get off the throttle
Pontiac Trans Am, 1963 Citroën replica; it seems that cutting up a genuine 356 was taboo and concede the lead, but Cal’s celebrations are short-
DS19, 1972 Datsun 240Z, 1976 even in 1981). lived, as he too meets a fiery end when his badarse ’67
Dodge Coronet, 1970 Dodge Corvette explodes – twice! – in a crash that would leave
Super Bee, 1978 Ferrari 308 You see, Steve wants to be the king of the mountain even the most experienced fire investigator stumped.
GTS, 1969 Jaguar XK-E and will stop at nothing to earn that title. He does,
STARS: Harry Hamlin, however, get mildly sidetracked when he meets Tina (Van Just add that to the list of things about King of the
Dennis Hopper, Deborah Van Valkenburgh), an up-and-coming recording artist. Tina is Mountain that don’t make much sense, including the
Valkenburgh, Joseph Bottoms, being produced by Steve’s good friend, housemate and choice of Hamlin in the lead role. He lacks gusto,
Richard Cox, Dan Haggerty, former Mulholland racer Roger (Cox), and singing tunes machismo and the ability to raise his voice without
Seymour Cassel written by Buddy (Bottoms), Steve’s other housemate sounding like Michael Bolton – around here we prefer our
DIRECTOR: Noel Nosseck and current Mulholland racer. Steves brash and ballsy, thank you very much. Hopper,
ACTION: Some decent meanwhile, takes the Cal character way over the top, his
mountain racing scenes Your challenge as the viewer, then, is to make sense scattered dialogue and over-emotional rants underlining
featuring a variety of exotic of dual storylines that are polar opposites in both plot why doing cocaine at work is never a good idea.
sports cars and traditional and character development while also trying to figure
American muscle out what’s going on with washed-up mountain racer and VERDICT: 2/5
PLOT: A group of illegal racers stopwatch aficionado Cal (Hopper), who has a stalker-like CONCEPT-wise, King of the Mountain had the potential
battle the dangerous, twisty fascination with Steve. to be a great flick, but the execution is lacking. The road
curves of LA’s Mulholland Drive racing scenes are okay but would have benefitted from
in an attempt to be crowned When these divergent threads finally somewhat better lighting; much of the action is literally lost in the
king of the mountain intertwine, Buddy cracks the shits that Tina won’t be dark. But it isn’t all doom and gloom. Cal’s rough Corvette
AVAILABLE: YouTube recording his songs, before meeting a fiery end in his is a pretty nasty bit of gear, and seeing it powersliding
Mustang while racing Cal (who is driving what must be the through the corners in the daylight road chase finale is
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Steve then goes on a very mild bender, turning to his
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Write to: Your Stuff, Street Machine, Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, Vic 3166 or email [email protected].
Make sure you include your address (not necessarily for publication). Keep it short and sweet!

> LETTER OF THE MONTH

TAKING ISSUE

OHHHH, Broads. What have you done? You’ve thrown a spanner
in the works with your editorial in the 400th issue (SM, Dec ’21).
You yourself said: “Exactly which issue of the magazine marks our
400th is somewhat contentious, as SM evolved from Van Wheels
magazine.”

So, keeping that in mind, the Australian Van Wheels & Street
Machine issue with John Strachan’s Alley Cat on the cover (top
right) has always been considered the first issue of SM by collectors
of the magazine, because it was the first issue with Street Machine
printed on the cover, regardless of it coming after the Van Wheels
name.

If you count the number of published magazines that feature the
month and year on them, with that Aug-Sep 1981 issue being #1,
then the December 2021 issue is indeed #400. However, if you
are counting the Oct-Nov 1981 issue – the first issue where the
Street Machine name is given prominence over Van Wheels – as
#1 (bottom right), then the January 2021 issue should have been
the 400th issue.

I am not including the final issues of 2020 or 2021, as they
simply have ‘Yearbook’ printed on them. I call those Street Machine
specials – exactly the same as the six issues titled The Very Best of
Street Machine, the Tough V8s, Hot Holdens and Hot Fords mags,
and the 32 Summernats issues. They all had Street Machine in
their titles – are they now to be counted as proper issues of Street
Machine?

Please help me. I have been a fastidious collector of the magazine
since #5 of Australian Van Wheels. Please tell me I have it all correct
and I don’t need to go through 400 magazines and re-number them.
Allow me to finally lay my weary head down and get some sleep!

Regardless, I still love the magazine and the work everyone does
getting it out to us fans every single month. You are all legends.
Thanks for letting me rant.

Brad Hayes, email

G’DAY Brad. First up, thank you for your dedication and passion.
We never get tired of hearing about readers who have lovingly
collected every issue of Street Machine.

Yep, because of the way in which SM gradually evolved from
Australian Van Wheels, exactly which issue constitutes the first SM
is a matter of opinion. You could make a case – as you have – for
it being the Australian Van Wheels & Street Machine with Alley
Cat on the cover, or – as we did in the December issue – that it’s
the first issue where Street Machine gained prominence on the
masthead. Equally, one could make the argument that the issue
that saw Van Wheels dropped from the masthead completely
should be considered the first issue of SM.

I will make the point, however, that the 2020 and 2021 Yearbooks
absolutely constitute fully fledged issues of Street Machine,
as opposed to the one-shots and specials you mentioned. The
Yearbooks came about because management was keen to
squeeze 13 issues of SM into a calendar year. We had to call
them something, and ‘December-and-a-half’ didn’t exactly roll off
the tongue. But the Yearbooks are formatted exactly the same
as a regular issue of SM, and slot in between the December and
January issues in the on-sale schedule rather than being sold
alongside regular monthly issues like the specials are.

My sincere apologies if this has served to further complicate your
numbering system, and thanks again for your support! – Broads

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DEEP-SIXED around the fresh Gen 3 Supercars (above Commodore, so I say bring on the future.
right), especially from mouth-breathers upset
HI GUYS, just writing to say I loved all the about a lack of Aussie car bodies. Sure, it’s a Phil Darkins, email
202 representation in the 2021 Yearbook! shame the glory days of Commodore versus
It’s very cool to see how long Jeff Foley stuck Falcon are gone, but anybody with half a brain WHO’S THE BOSS?
with the Grunt Hunt six-pot in his UC Torana, knows we haven’t been watching road cars
especially in the age of V8s and turbos. at Bathurst for decades. What’s all the fuss HAVING followed XBOSS and its recent
Seems like it couldn’t have gone to a better about? auction (and re-auction), I reckon the car was
owner. a bargain at $860,000. That’s $28 per hour
Maybe they’ve got a short memory, or wilfully for the 30,000 hours of labour on the car,
I thoroughly enjoyed Trevor Owen’s six- forgetting all the years of American cars without even considering the price of parts
cylinder LC, too (above left). Getting a street- making a go of Aussie Touring Car racing. and a Falcon coupe itself.
driven Torana into the 10s with an aspirated There was Moffat’s Coca-Cola Mustang in the
202 is no mean feat. 60s, Bob Jane’s sweet orange Camaro, Kev It’s no real shock that LMCT+ picked it up,
Bartlett’s Channel 9 car, and even the DJR as they seem to do with every big-ticket car
These stories prove there’s a bit more to Fox-bodies of the 80s. these days. But it’s kind of crazy to think what
decent power than just a cam and carby swap, could happen to XBOSS from here, its fate
so hats off to these guys for keeping the six- Don’t forget that the Gen 3 Camaro and basically resting on the price of a raffle ticket.
pot dream alive. Go the mighty Holden six! Mustang both use production-based engines, My bet is the winner will put it back on the
with local development behind them. And market, because how do you bring yourself
Peter Brewis, email besides, I know I’d sooner watch a Camaro to drive one of Australia’s best-finished cars?
silhouette than what’s passed off as a And on our godawful roads, no less!
STILL SUPER?
Andrew Moore, email
IT’S BEEN interesting to watch the carry-on

> DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH

IN LIKE FLYNN

MY NAME is Flynn, and I am a huge Street Machine fan. I would be so happy and proud if my drawing could be in your magazine!
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GIMME A BRAKE Richard Sims – I had a situation recently
where someone changed lanes into mine
THE Federal Government recently and I wanted to swerve around them so
announced that from 2023, all I didn’t get rear-ended by the person
new car models will be required behind, but my car decided differently and
to have Autonomous Emergency slammed the brakes on. Lucky the guy
Braking fitted as part of their safety kit. behind me was on the ball and he swerved
Already a feature of many modern cars, to the right and missed me. I’ve also had
AEB will slam on the brakes to avoid the brakes slam on for no reason on one
(what it thinks is) a potential collision. But occasion. I can drive better than my car!
drivers are finding that AEB can sometimes Alex Powell – Good! My last car got
activate in inappropriate situations. Here’s written off because some pinecone hit me
what you had to say about the upcoming at 60km/h while I was sat at the lights.
mandate. Scott Anderson – I drove a car with it
once, and the thing almost killed me. The
John Irvine – People like to be in control, poor guy behind me locked up and spun,
but they keep giving it away bit by bit. all because the car I was driving got funny
Ash Blit – Just another thing to compensate about going around a corner with a cyclist
for millennials’ lack of driving skills! in the cycle lane. Everyone needed new
Michael Obrien – You may as well take underwear that day!
licences away from people. They aren’t Clinton Osmond – I know a few
really driving anyway. motorcycle riders who I bet wished the
Graham Phillips – I’ll just disable it as cars that hit them had it.
soon as I start the car. David Crossman – It’s another pointless
Bruce Haines – I hired a car with this in gadget for so-called safety. I have traction
North Queensland. It slammed its brakes control in my car, which basically shuts
on at 100km/h when the car in front pulled down the drive when one of the wheels
off the highway and I passed it. The truck loses traction. I’ve had incidents in which
behind me had to take evasive action. I’ve almost had cars run into the back of
Never ever driving a car with that turned on. me, and this stupid thing will be just as bad.
Dylan Zrim – You can troll Tesla drivers by Dallas Barnwell – Bring on automated
pretending to ram them at intersections. It cars, so we can go travelling and get
activates the crash avoidance, and if it’s smashed in the passenger seat.
the only option, the car will drive forward,
through a red light into a busy intersection.



LEGEND

STORY SIMON TELFORD PHOTOS SM ARCHIVES

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Chic Henry

IF Street Machine is the bible of our sport, years old, my dad bought a 1937 Chev roadster.
then Summernats must be Christmas, He painted it blue and, with the help of a couple
Bathurst and the Olympics rolled into one. of uncles, swapped a Bedford truck engine into
There are stacks of other great events on it. I used to ride around in the dickie seat with my
offer around the country these days, but the mates; we thought it was pretty cool.
Street Machine Summernats remains the
biggest, wildest and most diverse of them all. Dad was always mucking around with cars, and
If you want to immerse yourself in the full gamut he loved motorsport. We went to race meetings at
of Australian custom car culture over four days, the Baskerville and Longford circuits. I remember
there’s nothing else like it. seeing Bob Jane’s E-Type Jag; it was the coolest-
looking car, with massive rubber. Wow!
The bloke we have to thank for it is Anthony
Robert ‘Chic’ Henry. Chic founded the There were some cool car dudes in Launceston
Summernats in 1988 and drove it like Brocky who rubbed off on me too, including Gene Cook,
until 2009, when it was sold to new owners Andy who became a Speedway champion, and Wayne
Lopez, Dom McCormack and Andrew Bee. Now Mahnken, who ended up being one of the early
75, Chic has remained involved with the event turbo gurus.
ever since, crowning each new Grand Champion
and moving among his flock. When did you get serious with cars?

Where did the name Chic come from? I was more interested in swimming, diving and
I’ve been called Chic since I was seven. I got surfing when I was younger. I joined the army in
it from a Warner Brothers character, Henery 1964 as an apprentice blacksmith and bought a
Hawk. He was the little chickenhawk, one of Morris Messenger van. I painted it with a brush,
Foghorn Leghorn’s mates. So I was Henry Mum made me some black satin curtains and I
the Chickenhawk, then Chickenhawk, then just put a mattress in the back. It was ahead of its time
Chic. as a shaggin’ wagon.

When did the car bug bite? But my first real hottie was an EH Holden that I
I grew up in Tasmania, and when I was about nine got in 1967. I put in solid lifters, a Cain manifold,
twin carbies, Impala floor-shift and extractors. It
could sit on 105mph, which was pretty good for
a 179 back then.

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What was the turning point that saw you join speed car, but the driveline was long gone, so ’82, ’84 and ’86.
I fitted a 427 big-block and a push-button 727
the car community? Torqueflite out of one of Bill Shrewsberry’s What was the genesis of Summernats?
wheelstanders. I still love that car after all
I moved with my young family up to Townsville these years. I’ll see it in the shed or when I I had moved to Canberra in 1985, because I
with the army in ’68. I got much more into the come back to it at the shops and think, “Man, really believed in the Street Machine Nationals.
car scene up there and traded the EH in on a I dig that Chev.” I’d been to the US Street Rod Nationals in Tulsa
VE Valiant. I had the slant-six rebuilt with a big in 1976, and that got me thinking about what a
Wade camshaft, triple 1¾-inch SUs, and it When did you start getting into the large national event could be – an active event
had an original set of ROH mags that I hand- where people drove their cars, rather than a
polished. I raced the Valiant at the Savannah organisational side of things? static show. Seeing that, and later the Street
strip and ran low 15s, which was pretty good Machine Nationals in Du Quoin, convinced
in those days. I’d been involved in clubs through water polo, me that we could create something that was
so that came naturally to me. I worked at more like a festival, a celebration.
In 1969, I went to my first meet at Surfers Surfers as a scrutineer for seven years, but I
while on holidays. I raced the Valiant there was kind of caught between hot rodding, drag So you could see the ASMF Nationals
and met guys like John ‘Stomper’ Winterburn. racing and this new street machine thing. The
Stomper drove an HD Holden with crazy ’57 meant I was accepted by the hot rodders. becoming something like that?
graphics all over it – cars like that made a big I loved the drags but also liked the street
impact on me. aspect, and people like myself were starting Yes, but getting the states to all agree on
to form clubs for these ‘late-model’ cars. anything was tough. It was a massive amount
When did you become a Chev guy? of work, so I negotiated to get paid to run
The first Street Machine Nationals in Griffith the ’86 Nationals. For ’87, I put a proposal
I saw Col Neaton’s Ramcharger on the back of was put on by the 55-56-57 Chev Club of together to the ASMF, with the help of my late
a trailer one time – it blew my mind and made Australia in 1975. They ran it twice in Griffith, friend Rudi Vandenberg, to run the Nationals
me realise I had a thing for American cars. My and then there was one in Shepparton run as a satellite to the Federation. But some
first Chev was a ’57 I bought from drag racer by the Victorian Street Machine Association. people were scared of that or didn’t trust that
Jeff Burnett; it had got caught in the 1974 I was in the Queensland Association, and someone was going to become a promoter –
Brisbane floods. He put it up on the hoist, but together with guys like Rowan Wilson, Dave we’d all seen car show promoters disappear
it still got flooded up to the turret. He washed Ryan, Jim Wolf, John Toovey and others, we with the cash over the years. We were unable
it out with gallons of CRC, and it ended up created a national organisation, the Australian to move forward, so I put the call in to Street
being a pretty good car. It ended up with a Street Machine Federation, or ASMF. I Machine, which had already sponsored the
small-block out of one of Jeff’s funny cars, became the national director. The Nationals ’86 Nationals through editor Geoff Paradise.
and 10-inch-wide Ansen Sprints on the back. had outgrown the smaller country towns, so When Phil Scott took over as editor, he told
we moved it to Canberra and ran it there in me, “If you ever run your own event, we’ll
In 1978, I bought my ultimate car, a 1962 partner with you and be the sponsor.”
Chev Impala Super Sport. It was a 409/four-

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I STILL LOVE THE
’62 AFTER ALL THESE

YEARS. I’LL SEE IT
IN THE SHED AND
THINK, “MAN, I DIG

THAT CHEV”

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While it is hard to imagine the
Summernats without a Grand
Champion, the award wasn’t
introduced until 1993. “We wanted
to come up with something
different, which led to the Grand
Champion, harking back to the
medieval tournaments before the
king and queen,” says Chic. “The
champion was the knight who took
on all comers, so that’s the Grand
Champion who gets the sword”

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Chic Henry

THE BIGGEST COMPLIMENT WAS
WHEN PEOPLE WOULD ASK, “WHAT
HAVE YOU GOT PLANNED FOR NEXT
YEAR, CHIC?” THAT’S WHY I KEPT

LOOKING FOR NEW AND WILDER
THINGS TO FEATURE

How prepared were you to make the jump into For sure. Along with Rudi Vandenberg and John wild event back in the day, and still is in many
Pappas, I had a group of mates in Canberra
full-time event promotion? who worked in the legal profession who were ways.
able to guide me on how to write letters, deal
Besides what I had learned helping run the with insurance and so forth. Then there was Actually, it was really good. We had a working
Nationals, I didn’t have a lot of experience. the late Ronnie Whelan as chief scrutineer, Bill group with all the different government
But I had learned a lot of different skills in Giles at chief steward, Kit Laughlin on security departments that met before, during and after
the army. I also did some time working for a and his brother Greg on financials. Over the the event. We worked out practical plans with
large funeral director in Brisbane. I was hired years there were many more, like Michael them. Really constructive. It was a bit daunting
as a maintenance mechanic, but the rules O’Hara, Dennis Humphries, Chrissie Corkhill, when the era of risk management came in,
of engagement when you signed on was Don Walker, Owen Webb, Steve Roland and but we figured out that everyone who was in
that everyone on staff was trained to look Russell Avis. And my daughter Angie, who charge of their part of the ’Nats was doing the
after the bereaved. I found myself needing moved to Canberra to help me with the first right thing; we just had to formalise it.
to become a much more understanding and one and has worked at the ’Nats ever since,
compassionate person. I learned more about right up to Summernats 33. Biggest mistake?
public relations from being a funeral director
than anything else I’ve ever done. What were some of the bigger changes you In 1993, we wanted to have a sacrifice for
our show on New Year’s Eve. So we decided
How did you go about planning the first made compared to the Nationals? to sacrifice the most hated car, a Volvo. We
whipped the crowd up and took the cover off
Summernats? Professionalising the judging was a big one. to reveal the car. They went insane! We had it
Prior to that, judging was based on a tick rigged up to make it drop off its suspension,
The program was the same as Street Machine sheet – anyone could do it. So we brought in then blow the bonnet scoop off and so on. I
Nationals; it was just a matter of enhancing professionals, including Rowan Wilson, John kept whipping them up (my voice has never
it. Building a dedicated burnout pad was a Strachan, John Taverna and many more great been any good since that night), counted it
massive undertaking. I had the might of Street guys. down from 10 and blew it to smithereens. That
Machine behind me as a huge marketing tool, was the end of the show; the crowd went off
but the critical thing was the special features. It was also important to add pure spectacle into the night and every Volvo in town was
to the proceedings as well. For me, the biggest fair game. I learned that while you can wind a
Like what? compliment was when people would ask, crowd up, you then have to wind them down.
“What have you got planned for next year,
The biggest deal was bringing Rick Chic?” That’s why I kept looking for new and 1993 was the last year of the Supercruise,
Dobbertin’s Pontiac J2000 across from the wilder things to feature, working with guys like
US. It was the best pro street car in the world, Lawrence Legend to amp it up each time. yes?
so it was a massive draw. We also had a brand-
new Walkinshaw as a raffle car. Those things How did you go working with the authorities Yep. I came out in the ’62 at the head of the
needed their own promotion, separate to the pack, and it soon became apparent that the
event itself. for all those years? Summernats was a pretty crowd of people watching was just too big.
People were moving across the road and
You must have had some good help.

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there was no way we could control every same; you have to give them all some time in of the event – that it is a coming together
intersection. Then there was the perennial the sun. That part of human nature is what it of cultures, that people’s whole lives revolve
problem of hangers-on joining in the cruise is all about – the need to be noticed, whether around it. But I knew they were professional
and mucking up. I had the feeling that the next you’re an entrant with a killer car or bunch of and confident enough to make it work.
year’s Supercruise could be a disaster, so we kids wearing watermelons on their heads. The
decided to bring it into NATEX for 1994. That ‘look at me’ factor. How do you look upon Summernats now?
made the government and the coppers happy.
What made you decide to step away from I know how much it means to so many people
How did the entrants feel? – it means more to them than it does to me. It’s
running the ’Nats? their mecca, which pleases me enormously.
It was a big ask, but I think the entrants had It is a wonderful thing to know that so many
faith in me to do something reasonable – After the huge 20th and 21st events, I knew people got so much out of it. I’m so grateful
they could see it was better to drive the we couldn’t keep doing it forever; the pressure to all those people who came to my party and
cars on the dirt than risk a potential WWIII was getting to me. When the time came to enjoyed it with me.
on Northbourne Avenue. And that’s when sell it, I didn’t want to deal with the stress
we really cranked up the Saturday-night of it anymore. I lived with it 365 days a year. What do you have planned for the
entertainment, to keep the crowds inside the The financial aspect was getting tough and
venue as far as possible. every person who came in the gate was my Summernats this year?
responsibility. We ran a wild and crazy event
What do you think is the essence of the for a long time and it was amazing we got I’ll be presenting the Grand Champion sword
away with it. again, which I love doing. Aside from that, I’m
event? going to make the ’62 my mobile office and
What was it like handing it over to the new have a rave to whoever wants a chat. I’m not
That it is a tribal event. The entrants aren’t going to go in the City Cruise this year. Instead,
a homogenous group – you’ve got the Elite owners? I’m going to find a good vantage point, park
show car crew, the burnout guys, the dyno the ’62 there and enjoy it as a spectator.
fans, the ones who just want to cruise and Knowing their backgrounds, I had confidence
many more. So you can’t treat them all the in the new owners. My only question was Any words to live by?
whether they would understand the true nature
Never let fear hold you back.

Chic Henry

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F CARS could talk, Jason Mansweto’s 1969 solid-roller cam, with a pair of heavily modified Jason has gone to achieve that factory look. While
Falcon would have an epic tale to tell. Those of Trick Flow heads up top. common on 289/302 Windsors and FE big-
you unfamiliar with 2ENIL8’s history may want blocks, this style of ‘Power by Ford’ covers are
to cast a quick eye over the sidebar on page Jason built two intake systems: a Pro Systems, ultra-rare for the 429/460 big-blocks. “I searched
single-butterfly SV1 atop a Trick Flow A460 for ages for a set,” he says. “When they finally
I41. But if you’re already across this XW’s back- intake for the street, and twin Pro Systems 1150 arrived, they were badly battered and partially
story and thinking that what you see here is Dominators on a Trick Flow tunnel ram for the squashed. I spent a lot of hours bodyworking them
just the old 2ENIL8 freshened up, you’re in for a track. back into shape.”
few surprises!
Both systems yielded promising results on the To give those cavernous 2.5-inch primaries
Jason’s XW is now a mix of concours contender, dynamometer. “My goal was to make 1200hp some breathing room, the towers were carved
Elite showstopper, jaw-dropping pro streeter and NA, so I started with the twin fours,” says Jason. out, trimmed and neatly welded back in quite a
insane seven-second strip terror. “If Ford Australia “It cracked 1200 so easy; I didn’t really chase it. few millimetres further apart. Moving the towers
ever offered a drag pack, that’s what I wanted it to When I swapped to the single, I was very surprised outwards did the same to the wheels, so to tuck
look like,” Jason says. with what it made.” them back in, the uprights were modified, the
bearings were sunken into the hubs and the 3.5-
Let’s start with the elephant in the engine room. On a 98 PULP-friendly tune, the single-carb inch front rims were modified.
Built by Jason himself, aka Mansweto Racing, the set-up churned out 950lb-ft and 1189hp! And with
652-cube behemoth uses a Premier block based the twins bolted on and VP109 in the tank, it’s far The engine bay has been smoothed and refined,
on Ford’s 429/460 big-block. To get to 652 healthier than the current 1204hp the dyno sheet but with a factory look. The new inner guards
cubes, the bores were hogged out to take 4.675- indicates. Oh, and let’s not forget there’s a solid incorporate original-looking swage lines, while the
inch Diamond pistons swinging off a 4.750-inch 500hp worth of nitrous at the ready! radiator support was smoothed using sections cut
Callies crank. Feeding this insatiable beast is a
The rocker covers are an example of the lengths

I’VE ALWAYS BUILT RACE CARS, BUT I ALWAYS KNEW I COULD BUILD A
SHOW CAR. THAT’S WHY I BUILT A SHOW CAR THAT COULD RUN SEVENS!

ABOVE: There’s nothing special about
2ENIL8’s 15x3.5in and 15x10in Weld
Draglites – except that Jason has owned
the fronts for 30 years and he modified the
rears to accept the custom beadlocks

038 STREET MACHINE

ABOVE: The billet-alloy sump used to ENGINE BAY: Thanks to relocated
look a lot different; the ribs were added towers, shaved brake booster
to the rear half to give it more of a factory and smoothed sheet metal, the
look. The small front section had to be mammoth 652-cube monster has
added to clear the Titan twin pick-up oil plenty of room to flex its muscles.
pump. The TIG welding slightly warped Presented here in street trim with
the mounting flange, so Jason bolted the a single Pro Systems SV1, it's good
sump to his head-facing machine and for 1189hp naturally aspirated,
milled it flat again! with plenty of nitrous on standby.
And it’s all under the bonnet!

ABOVE: You can barely find a hose, BELOW: The top tank of the alloy
cable or wire anywhere on the car. radiator replicates the original
In keeping with this super-sanitary copper brass unit. Jason fashioned
theme, the nitrous solenoids have these end plates and TIG-welded
been hidden inside the heavily them in place to take the factory
modified FoMoCo snorkel air cleaner look that one step further
LEFT: The forward running bars connect back
into the ’cage’s down bars. Note the detailed
sheet metal where the booster used to be.
“It was way too plain once the booster was
gone,” says Jason. “To tidy it up, I made new
panels with swage lines that replicate the
lines found over on the passenger side”

THIS INSANE LEVEL OF EFFORT AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS
REPEATED ENDLESSLY FROM BUMPER TO BUMPER

from a donor support. The panelling behind the were moved inboard of the chassis rails, the inner of cover panels. Everything is on display, yet it
driver’s side headlight was cut out to allow airflow wheelwells were widened (with a factory look), looks super-sanitary. After the NOS quarters were
into the trans cooler that’s tucked in behind. and the length of the wheelarch was stretched chopped up to stretch the wheelarches, their
75mm. To maintain the original wheelbase, the insides were bodyworked, smoothed and painted
Behind the mega-mill is a Protrans-built Reid- dogleg was moved forward and the trailing edge to the same quality as the exterior. This insane
case Powerglide that can cope with the combo’s moved backwards. level of effort and attention to detail is repeated
1700+hp max output. endlessly from bumper to bumper – there’s not
While essentially being the only exterior body enough space here to cover it all.
Jason’s good mate, Con Constantinou from mod, moving the dogleg required modifying the
Pro Street Metalcraft, was a tremendous help door skin, door frame and sill mould, which was The GTHO’s long-range, 36-gallon fuel tank
throughout the build. “He did all the TIG welding,” shortened and re-welded. Only the most ardent used two bottom halves joined together. Jason
says Jason. “He and I think the same, with Con XW/XY trainspotter would pick it, though. took this idea, flipped the XW’s original fuel tank
contributing a lot of great ideas to the build.” upside down and fashioned a factory-looking
To get a full-steel Falcon down the quarter quick- flat bottom from sheet metal. Before welding it
The sheet-metal diff Con fabricated is a veritable smart, you need lots of traction. To plant the rear together, an elaborate baffling system was added
work of art, filled with a Mark Williams aluminium tyres, there’s Calvert split mono-leaf springs, for the fuel pick-up. Its design was inspired by
centre; 3.4:1 Pro gears; 40-spline, gun-drilled CalTracs and AFCO Racing shocks, plus Gazzard the baffles typically seen in circuit racing engine
axles; and a full spool. Brothers sliders and anti-roll bar. The front is far sumps.
simpler: Pedders springs and 50/50 shocks.
Rather than tub the car to within an inch of its life, The 2300hp-capable Aeromotive Eliminator
Jason went the more subtle route to accommodate Pop the boot and you’ll note the complete lack
the portly 315/60R15 Mickey Ts. The springs

040 STREET MACHINE ABOVE: Designed to look like the top
half of a 36-gallon GTHO long-range
tank, it’s actually a 16-gallon item
turned upside down and narrowed
to fit between the inboard-mounted
leaf springs. With not a cover panel in
sight, all the sheet metal, ’cage and
anti-roll bar feature show-quality paint

ABOVE: Look carefully and you’ll notice an
Odyssey battery behind the Edelbrock nitrous
controller. It’s supported by a steel frame that
allows the plastic glove box liner to slip into
place. The glove box still opens and shuts as
per normal – even the courtesy light still works!

BELOW: The handle activates the
parachute mounted behind the number
plate, while the switches are for fuel
pump, fuel pump override, nitrous
activation, nitrous purge and transbrake

RISE OF THE MACHINE Silver Fox XW proceeded to rack up accolades, starting with
a Street Machine cover story in November 2001. It was a
JASON bought the Falcon in 1987, when he was just 14. The two-time Summernats Horsepower Heroes champion, winning
1969 XW still had its 302 and Lime Frost Metallic paint. By the the Naturally Aspirated Small-Block class by a landslide with a
time he had his P-plates, Jason had rebuilt it, painted it white radically modified 440-cube Pro Stock-style Windsor that made
and added a tough 351 Windsor. It ran 12.50s at the Eastern 620hp at the wheels. Next was a more streetable 380-cuber
Creek drags. “That’s where I caught the racing bug,” he says. that ran 10.1@133mph, followed by a far more serious 451
Windsor that made 790hp NA and over 1100hp with a 300-shot
In ’96, it was revamped and came back blue with AGR069 of nitrous, producing 2ENIL8’s best ET of 8.80@156mph.
plates. It featured on the cover of Performance Street Car,
while its 351W underwent many years of development. AGR069 Jason had only run two passes with that motor when he
eventually ran a best of 10.70@126mph in 1997. tapped the wall at Powercruise 2008. The car has been off
the road ever since, gradually undergoing the full rebuild you
The dawn of the new millennium saw the Falcon undergo see here.
yet another facelift before coming back as 2ENIL8. The now-

FRONT END: The front-mounted
Cortina rack required new
forward-facing steering arms.
By using drum-brake stub
axles, the new arms bolt into
place via the four threaded
bosses that originally anchored
the drum’s backing plate. This
set-up also incorporates the
mounting brackets for the
Wilwood four-piston calipers

IT’LL RUN WELL INTO THE EIGHTS. THEN I’LL KEEP POURING NITROUS
INTO IT UNTIL IT RUNS A SEVEN

pump is mounted inside the tank, with the short master cylinders: front brakes, rear brakes and to a six-point ’cage, with a crossbar tucked way
braided line from the tank to the body about the handbrake. The original mechanical pull handle up under the dash and bars that run out through
only visible fuel line in the whole car. The pressure operates a master cylinder that activates the rear the firewall to the shock towers. He also added
reg is mounted on the firewall behind the engine, Wilwood four-piston calipers. “This way I didn’t diagonals that run behind the front seats from the
while the return line runs back through the sill, have any handbrake cables under the car,” says roll-over hoop down to the chassis connectors.
dumping into the top of the fuel filler pipe. Jason. “And like all the fuel hoses and wiring, the
hydraulic brake lines are also hidden out of sight.” To further enhance rigidity, there’s a rear engine
2ENIL8’s sensational body and paint is thanks plate, and chassis connectors that are fully
to Steven Nikolovski (body) and Con Kakoliris The brake pedal started life as the standard welded into the body and tied into the rear rails
(paint), both from Panel Worx. The talented duo Wilwood swing-mount assembly. The Wilwood (which have been fully gusseted and plated). The
pretty much worked full-time on the Falcon for a foot pad was removed and replaced with a rollcage, rails and connectors all tie in together to
whole year. With paint supplied by PPG, it isn’t fabricated aluminium version that accepts the form an incredibly rigid structure.
just good on the outside – the finish is just as nice factory XW rubber pad.
in all the places you can’t see! While 2ENIL8 is now way nicer than any factory-
The original T-bar shifter and illuminated shift delivered vehicle, Jason is adamant that he still
As stated earlier, 2ENIL8 has been built like a indicator work harmoniously with the Powerglide, wants to run a time in it. “It’ll never be my race
concours car. Componentry like the door locks, while the nitrous controller and battery have been car again,” he says. “However, it makes more
boot lock, seat runners, bonnet catch, door hinges shoehorned into the glove box! power naturally aspirated than it did on gas when
and wiper mechanisms were all disassembled, it ran 8.8. It’ll run well into the eights; then I’ll keep
painstakingly restored and re-plated or repainted While admiring the later-model XA/XB pouring nitrous into it until it runs a seven!
as per factory. retractable seatbelts that have been retrofitted
with XW buckles, did you happen to notice the “I’ve always built race cars, but I always knew I
Don’t be fooled by the interior’s near-stock ANDRA-teched 12-point rollcage? It’s tucked in could build a show car,” Jason concludes. “That’s
appearance; there’s plenty going on in there. so tight it’s hard to see from the outside. Con from why I built a show car that could run sevens!”
Under the dash are two brake boosters and three Pro Street Metalcraft added an extra six ‘points’
Now that’s winning!

042 STREET MACHINE LEFT: This has to be the biggest XW/XY ABOVE: Many aspects of 2ENIL8’s
exhaust system ever built. It’s 5in out of the build are concours style – the
collectors and into the first pair of mufflers. underside is a good example. Here,
Their 4in outlets feed into a second pair of significant effort has gone into
mufflers that dump out the back through 4in replicating factory-style finishes
pipes. 2ENIL8 is certainly loud, but nowhere where possible, along with adding
near as boisterous as you’d think with just all the production line identification
shy of 1200hp on tap naturally aspirated numbers and paint markings

ABOVE: Never seen 429 badges like
these before? That’s because they were
custom-made by Bradford Badges.
Jason had to buy a minimum of 25,
plus another 25 of the slightly smaller
version used in the GT centre console

JASON MANSWETO Camshaft: Crow solid- Headers: Custom Diff: Fabricated chrome- shocks, CalTracs, Gazzard THANKS
1969 FORD XW roller with .906in lift 2.5in primaries into 5in moly 9in, Mark Williams Brothers anti-roll bar
FALCON Conrods: Reher- collectors alloy centre, 40-spline Brakes: Wilwood four- Con Constantinou and Adam
Morrison Exhaust: Four mufflers Mark Williams axles, piston (f & r) (Pro Street Metalcraft);
Paint: PPG Silver Fox Pistons: Diamond with 5in and 4in pipes 3.4:1 Pro gears Pedals/master Steven Nikolovski and Con
4.675in Ignition: MSD Digital-7 Tailshaft: Mark Williams cylinder: Wilwood pedal Kakoliris (Panel Worx);
ENGINE Crank: Callies Magnum Plus, MSD crank trigger, 3.5in box, twin boosters Fred (Protrans); Jason
4.750in ICE 1000-Series leads and Damien Lowe (Lowe
Type: 652ci Ford big- Sump: Jeff Johnston's Fuel: 98PULP (street), SUSPENSION & WHEELS & TYRES Fabrications); Paul Zammit
block Billet Fabrication alloy VP109 (race) BRAKES (wiring); Shane (Ford
Intake: Trick Flow (modified) Rims: Weld Draglite Muscle Parts); good mate
R-Series A460 (street), Oil pump: Titan twin TRANSMISSION Steering: Cortina rack- 15x3.5 (f), Weld Draglite Matt King for always being
tunnel ram (race) pick-up and-pinion with custom beadlock there and being a big part
Carbs: Pro Systems SV1 Fuel pump: Aeromotive Gearbox: Protrans Reid- Front: Pedders springs 15x10 (r) of the car’s history; my
(street), twin 1150cfm Eliminator case Powerglide and 50/50 shocks Rubber: 5.6x26x15 friends and family for the
Pro Systems Dominators Cooling: Alloy radiator Converter: Dominator Rear: Calvert split (f), Mickey Thompson support, especially my
(race) 6500rpm stall mono-leaf springs, AFCO 315/60R15 partner Doreen Bugeja
Heads: Trick Flow A460

RIGHT: The 4in dump pipes and 043STREET MACHINE
the rest of the exhaust tucks up
under the car surprisingly well.
Jason is pretty happy with those
custom ‘Powered by Mansweto’
number plate surrounds, too

044 STREET MACHINE

MAANNAGGEMEERNT

THIS STUNNING HZ PREM TOOK A TOP 60 SPOT AT
SUMMERNATS 33, BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP OWNER

DAVE CUELL PULLING IT APART AGAIN

STORY DAMION SMY PHOTOS CHRIS THOROGOOD

045STREET MACHINE

SOME cars take years to build, but supercharged 383 Chev getting bolted Holden power – but again, Dave was in
the sinister black HZ sedan you between the strut towers. The bodywork no rush and wanted to create something
see here took decades to make it and engine bay prep saw some clever a bit different.
to the Summernats Top 60 – and detailing by Dave’s mate Adam Pollard,
even then, it wasn’t finished. with the heater removed, the chassis He sent the car to Jake Bradley at MTS
Twenty years earlier, the 1978 rails smoothed over and the inner guards Custom Fabrications, who did the tubs
Holden was a clean, neat streeter running dropped lower to sit closer and cleaner and raised the trans tunnel, enabling
a mild 308 before owner Dave Cuell to the control arms. the fitment of the McDonald Brothers
added a bit more punch beneath the triangulated four-link in the back end. The
bonnet with a 355 stroker. It then happily At this stage, the HZ’s cabin was HZ also copped a full-floater assembly
rolled on in that guise until Dave started swathed in various shades of black. “I with a sheet-metal housing and 35-spline
toying with the idea of some fresh paint thought I’d be different and change it axles, with Wilwood brakes at either end.
and improvements – but he wasn’t in a up, so I went with gloss-black inner door
rush. jambs, bumpers and trims – anything “It had to look angry,” says Dave, which
that was chrome, really,” Dave says. The explains those AANGRY plates the car
“To force myself to commit, we pulled panelwork? Satin black. now sports. “I wanted to bring the car
the engine out and put it in my mate’s HK back to its original black and chrome
wagon, which made the Summernats Top “Who doesn’t want a blown, street- look, but this time with big wheels and
60,” Dave says. registered car?” says Dave of the rubber. It had to have that look that when
resulting black beauty. “I did a few you saw it you wanted to kick yourself in
With the 355 stroker gone and the HZ burnout comps and street duties in that the balls!”
in pieces, bodywork could be attended to look until I was offered some money to
while the hunt for another donk went on. sell the engine and trans combo, so I did.” That meant that the paintwork had to
be AANGRY too – with every last detail
That process concluded with a That’s how the HZ went back to 355ci drenched in black, black and more black.

046 STREEtT MMAACCHHIINNEE

STANCE: The HZ’s
aggressive stance comes

from the combo of a
tubbed, four-link rear end
and skinny front-runners.

The black paintwork
is topped with chrome
window detailing, fresh

bumpers and an HZ
Statesman front, along

with new head- and
tail-lights for a super-

clean finish

I WANTED TO BRING THE CAR BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL BLACK AND
CHROME LOOK – THIS TIME WITH BIG WHEELS AND RUBBER

ENGINE BAY: The 355
stroker’s Harrop manifold

pushes the engine
package through the

bonnet, with the
Holley 830 carb up top
(mounted sideways to

allow neater
positioning of the fuel

lines) monitored by
an in-bay Auto Meter
fuel-pressure gauge. The
remaining gauge pack
sits outside, just ahead

of the windscreen.
The stunning engine bay

sees contrasting
gloss- and satin-black

paint along with a
smoothed firewall and
repositioned ancillaries

047STREET MACHINE

BOOT: The gloss-black
fuel cell stands tall in
the satin black-finished
boot, along with the
MagnaFlow fuel pump
and Optima battery.
Smoothed wheelarches,
braided lines and custom
fittings match the colour
scheme of that glorious
engine bay up front

INTERIOR: Clad in
Hotspur red, the cabin
absolutely pops against
the pristine back exterior.
Standard front seats and
a modified rear bench
are trimmed in leather
from Porsche and Bentley

models. The centre
console has been deleted,

the transmission tunnel
has been smoothed,
and the headlining is
Alcantara – straight

out of Stuttgart’s finest
performance models

The engine bay and boot innards were heads, a custom Crane cam, Crane valve
painted satin black, the firewall was springs and ACL pistons. “To be different,
smoothed over, and for extra punch, we also turned the carby sideways,” Dave
the chassis rails – also smoothed out adds, which enabled the fuel lines to be
previously – were finished in gloss black. plumbed more neatly.
The fuel cell and various fittings also sport
gloss for a contrasting black-over-black Twin thermo fans keep things cool up
theme throughout. front, while a set of custom three-inch
dual pipes lets out the mighty bellow at
Under the nose is a rebuilt front end the rear.
with Viking coil-overs, but there’s
still chrome on the HZ’s exterior: the “I just finished the car the night before
window surrounds, fresh bumpers, and Summernats, which I think was New
Statesman lights and grille all serve to Year’s Eve, put it on a trailer pretty much
offset the black, with the latter feeding without testing it and we made Top 60!”
airflow to the 355. Dave says, having made the journey to
Canberra from Geelong, Victoria.
The iron lion was built by Jai Shanahan
and Flowcraft, who’d built the HZ’s earlier Despite the serious achievement –
355. This time, there’s a transbraked made all the sweeter given that the HZ’s
Powerglide with a 5200rpm stall former powertrain had also made the
converter behind the bent-eight, which Top 60 – there was still more that Dave
sports a Harrop inlet manifold atop VN wanted done to the Zed.

“I’d seen the red on an HK years before

048 STREET MACHINE

EXTERIOR: The fat
back end houses huge

Mickey Ts on Weld
wheels, with the four-link
planting the HZ’s tail. The
licks of red interior tease
from the outside, where

the Premier’s perfect
bodywork is shown off by
the clearcoat Standox Jet

Black paint

IT HAD TO HAVE THAT LOOK THAT WHEN YOU SAW IT
YOU WANTED TO KICK YOURSELF IN THE BALLS!

REAR: The HZ’s trans
tunnel has been raised

and the rear arches
tubbed to allow a four-
link set-up and girthy
rubber. A full-floater 9in
diff is completed with
Wilwood brakes for each
axle, cushioned by Viking

coil-overs

049STREET MACHINE

NOW I JUST WANT TO DRIVE THE WHEELS OFF IT – I WANT
TO GET AT LEAST ONE SUMMER OUT OF IT THE WAY IT IS

GREAT SOUTHERN BAND and I just loved it,” he says. The black interior was DAVE CUELL
removed and in its place now is the jaw-dropping, 1978 HZ HOLDEN PREMIER
DAVE is part of the Geelong-based eye-searing red trim that screams anger from the
Southern Union Crew, who you’ll heart of this beast. It’s a bold contrast with the Paint: Standox Jet Black, Valspar Satin Black
see raising funds and helping at exterior and gives the car a seriously world-class
charity and community events cabin for weekend cruises. ENGINE
around Victoria.
After all, power and quarter-mile ETs are not Brand: 355ci Holden by Flowcraft
What’s more, Dave’s HZ wasn’t what this monster is about. Induction: Holley 830 Quick Fuel carb
the only streeter from the crew to Heads: Ported cast VN Commodore
star at ’Nats 33. AANGRY was one of “Now I just want to drive the wheels off it – I Conrods: A9L
three – yes, three – cars from the want to get at least one summer out of it the way it Pistons: ACL
SUC that made the Top 60, with is,” Dave says. “I’ve always loved HJ-HZ models, Crank: Harrop
Darryn Wishart’s LJ Torana and I bought this off a mate about 20 years ago Oil pump: Modified factory
(SM, Sep ’18) and Ben Grayland’s as a roller.” Two decades on, Dave’s made his HZ Fuel system: MagnaFuel fuel pump
amazing 347-powered XR Falcon Cooling: Custom radiator, twin thermo fans,
(SM, Aug ’20) also among the 60 best. seriously AANGRY! electric water pump
Exhaust: Custom 3in dual exhaust
050 STREET MACHINE Ignition: ICE

TRANSMISSION

Gearbox: Transbraked Powerglide,
B&M shifter
Converter: TCE 5200rpm stall
Diff: 9in, 4.3:1 gears, 35-spline axles

SUSPENSION & BRAKES

Front: Viking coil-overs
Rear: McDonald Brothers four-link, Viking
coil-overs
Brakes: Wilwood (f & r)
Master cylinder: Wilwood

WHEELS & TYRES

Rims: Weld V-Series; 15x4 (f), 15x12 (r)
Rubber: Moroso Drag Special 5.50-15 (f),
Mickey Thompson Sportsman Pro 29x15 (r)

THANKS

All my mates who have helped with the car
over the years; Jai Shanahan and Flowcraft
for the engine; Jake Bradley at MTS Custom
Fabrications for the fabwork; James Isaacs
for the paint; Tready for the wiring and
electrical work; Matt Cook for the interior;
Tony Di Biagio at TDR Engines & Race Parts;
Adam Pollard; Tassie Ainley; Dave Hoe; Dan
Smith; Rade; Jason Thomas; my ‘influential
neighbours’ growing up, Shaun and Turk; my
daughter Lily for all the help and advice