WE'VE seen some killer cars roll out of Brisbane's Spot On Performance & Fabrications W over the years, but this VS Commodore, built from the ground up for Michael Moore, is next-level.
Beyond the stunning paint and interior, incredible engineering and a single-turbo LS capable of 1800hp, the car is geared up to handle everything from a local coffee run to running a seven-second pass on radials! "I remember the moment the build started," Michael says.
"I was at Jamboree watching the drags, and I saw a VN Commodore the boys at Spot On built; it was a low-eight-second streeter making laps. I knew that's what I wanted, so I headed over to them in the pits and told Andy [Coles, of Spot On Performance & Fabrications] I wanted them to build me one."
Michael found a good starting point online: a rolling shell with 400,000km. "It was up in Townsville; I didn't even go and have a look at it," he laughs. "I just got it delivered!"
Chatting with Andy, Michael stressed he didn't want an out-and-out drag racer - it had to be a streeter, it had to be clean enough to be showworthy, and it still had to be capable of driving to the track, running eights and driving back home.
"There's eights, and then there's eights," Andy says, putting emphasis on the latter. "I knew that if we were going to do a full build on this car, then an 8.90 wasn't going to cut it by the time we got it finished. Michael hadn't really owned an older car like this he was used to late-models so everything was going to be different."
With that in mind, Andy set the project in the direction of seven-second ETs, without sacrificing the street-driven angle. "We didn't sell Michael on the numbers," he says. "We kept that door open, because technology is constantly evolving, and we need to move with it."
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THE Ummmal SUSPECT
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FULLY UTILISED
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PEOPLE POWER
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OUT-AND-OUT MAYHEM
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