AN OVERPOWERED pre-1948 hot rod may not seem like the most sensible car to take on Street Machine Drag Challenge, but then again, sensible doesn’t have a lot to do with DC! We’ve had a small but growing number of entrants turn up in rods each year, and Mike Rohal’s 1937 Ford pick-up is one of the wildest yet.
Mike, the proprietor of engine shop JH Southcott in Adelaide, got his first taste of Drag Challenge in 2018, running a twin-turbo LS-powered VS ute. The stealthy VS ran a best of 10.6 seconds in the Haltech Radial Blown class, and Mike was hooked.
Five months before the 2019 event, Mike decided to turn his crusty-but-cool 1937 Ford shop truck into a certified Drag Challenge weapon. “I bought the ’37 a few years ago from the late Phil Hart of Special Interest Autos,” Mike says. “Phil had a talent for sniffing out amazing cars, and the ’37 had the most amazing patina I’d ever seen. I put it on the road with an I-beam front end, 283 Chev and nine-inch.
“I like hot rods, and I found that LS turbos are addictive. So I combined the two.”
To get the truck ready for duty, Mike stripped it back to its jocks, boxing and strengthening the original chassis, recessing the firewall and building a new floor. The front end is a Rod-Tech IFS, with coil-overs and a Subaru rack. Outback, Mike knocked up a beefy four-link rear using some Rod-Tech components, Nolathane HQ-style bushes and an Enemies Everywhere anti-roll bar.
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
ARBY’S EFFORTS TO IMPROVE HIS VG VALIANT’S 60-FOOT TIMES YIELD PROMISING RESULTS IN THE RUN-UP TO STREET MACHINE DRAG CHALLENGE
ANIKA HODGES
THE CAR DROVE INTO OUR SHED AS A CREAM 202CI VC AND DROVE OUT AS A SILVER CAR WITH A 355 V8
STAGE FRIGHT
IT TOOK OWEN SCOTT MORE THAN 20 YEARS TO BUILD A TROPHY-WINING, 600HP EH HOLDEN UTE THAT WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME
THE Ummmal SUSPECT
FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT MINI-TRUCKS. THIS SUMMERNATS TOP 60 HILUX IS A PROPER STREET MACHINE
FULLY UTILISED
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
ARBY’S EFFORTS TO IMPROVE HIS VG VALIANT’S 60-FOOT TIMES YIELD PROMISING RESULTS IN THE RUN-UP TO STREET MACHINE DRAG CHALLENGE
PEOPLE POWER
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OUT-AND-OUT MAYHEM
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BAD TO THE BONE
THANKS TO HIS SON, ANDY, THE LATE MARIO COLALILLO’S 39 PLYMOUTH COUPE IS BACK ON THE ROAD AND STILL ONE OF THE BADDEST HOT RODS IN THE COUNTRY
THE CHALLENGE IS REAL
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