DEAN Trounson spent his teenage years submitting art. for Expression Session pages, which goes some way to explaining why his first-car tastes were a bit different to the average P-plater back in 2010. "I really wanted an FB station wagon - which I still want to get - but they were just out of our price range," he says. "I then spotted an HR on eBay that seemed pretty honest looking. My dad and brother went to have a look, and the deal was done."
The bogged-up, two-tone green body wasn't to Dean's taste, so he soon bought an HJ sedan as an interim daily driver and pulled the HR apart. "I always lusted after the white with red interior colour combo, and I wanted to integrate aspects from the HK GTS with a black-accented grille and quad tailpipes, so that became my new goal," he says. As his awareness of the growing pro touring scene developed, it set the direction for a 13-year garage build.
"The paint is the second job since I've owned it," Dean says. "The first one was done so poorly that after one month the paint was lifting; you could pull the clearcoat off like a tablecloth! I later found out they never took it back to bare metal." Dean got Dave's Classics on the case, whose contract panel beater Lou whipped the panels back into shape for another coat of Toyota Pearl White.
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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
HARDWOOD ROD & CUSTOM TURNS DARREN ISON'S HAND-ME-DOWN HT INTO A SMOOTH OPERATOR
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
WE TAKE A LOOK BACK AT 36 YEARS OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS - AND MOST DEMOCRATICALLY AWARDED - HONOUR IN OUR SPORT: STREET MACHINE OF THE YEAR
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
FROM TRACK DRAMAS TO SOARING TEMPERATURES, DRAG CHALLENGE 2024 THREW US SOME OF ITS TOUGHEST TESTS YET, BUT IT ALSO BROUGHT SOME OF THE QUICKEST TIMES THE EVENT HAS EVER SEEN
