CHALLENGE TOO FAR

DRIVEN by part-owner Jason Turner, the original FOX1 Challenger cruised plenty on the Friday, often with actor Richard Moir (aka Fox) in the passenger seat. But four-up on Saturday morning, cruising along to the Rebel’s Garage site, the little-too-low Challenger scraped its sump on some whoops about 20 kays out of town. “The car behind flew up beside me and signalled me to kill it,” Jason explains, slashing his fingers across his throat. “It’d left a 200m oil spill on the ground.” A bit of action saw the Challenger trailered back to town and hoisted at Jemrok Workshop. The exhaust was dropped, the sump removed and welded closed, and thanks to the efforts of Mark Riddell and Steve Courtney, within a few hours one of Australia’s most famous movie cars was back cruising past the pub again – to rapturous applause.