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ANTHONY RASCHELLA WAS EN ROUTE TO DRAG CHALLENGE WEEKEND WITH HIS NEW ’67 MALIBU. BUT THE COVID-19 CURSE STRUCK AGAIN

- CARLY DALE

AFTER a successful tilt at the 2019 Street Machine Drag Challenge in his Plymouth Duster (SM, Jul ’20), Anthony Raschella was amped to play in his new ’67 Chevelle Malibu at this year’s Drag Challenge Weekend in Queensland. But the biggest hurdle was always going to be getting to the Sunshine State from Anthony’s home in Adelaide.

“With all of the COVID restrictions, we were seriously looking at heading up to Tennant Creek and then into Queensland via the highway to Mt Isa or through the Strzelecki Track,” Anthony said when we spoke to him a few weeks out from the event. “But now it looks like we can go up through NSW, and while I’d like to take the Strzelecki, I also want to get there.”

Anthony’s wife Kylie and 10-year-old son Lawrence were stoked to be heading along for the ride, too. “Lawrence was keen to come last year, but it was my first event as an entrant, plus we were also helping out Mark Whitla with his Capri, so we had some long days and very late nights.”