Blue Murder
Street Machine Magazine|October 2017

Adam Rogash’s street-driven allshow VK is packing 2000HP and destined for sevens.

Andrew Broadley
Blue Murder

GENUINE seven-second street cars are few and far between, and while Adam Rogash’s positively stunning ALLSHOW VK Blue Meanie replica is yet to dip into the sevens, we feel very confident in saying that it’s only a matter of time. Allow us to explain.

Adam is one of just three members of Street Machine’s exclusive Seven-Second Club, and his previous ride, a VX ClubSport known as NOSHOW, is a multiple Drag Challenge class winner. It has finished the event twice, four-up, towing a trailer full of parts and tools, with hardly a spanner being put to it for the full five-day duration. It also happens to have a PB of 7.80@178mph to its credit. If that doesn’t fit your definition of a seven-second street car, then I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.

NOSHOW’s sequel, ALLSHOW, has just been unveiled amidst critical acclaim at Red CentreNATS, and just two days later it reeled off a casual 8.24@176mph on its first full pass at Alice Springs Inland Dragway. Compared to NOSHOW, it’s significantly lighter, makes more power, runs a larger tyre and has vastly superior suspension. You do the maths.

But while the new car is set to make NOSHOW look almost slow by comparison, the motivation for the build was more centred around safety than speed.

“My wife has never asked me to do anything before, but she’d noticed NOSHOW was starting to twist up a bit,” explains Adam. “She asked me what my goal was and I told her 7.80. She said once I’d run my 7.80 she wanted me to pull the car down and make it safer. It didn’t have a full-floater rear, so if we broke an axle it was going to go bad, and it still had standard front suspension. It was going to be the same outlay to build another car as what it was to re-do NOSHOW, so we started again from scratch.”

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