ON SATURDAY MORNING, CRUISING ALONG TO THE REBEL’S GARAGE SITE, THE LITTLE-TOO-LOW FOX1 CHALLENGER SCRAPED ITS SUMP ON SOME WHOOPS ABOUT 20 KAYS OUT OF TOWN

~1~ Evan Dawe drove his XB Futura from Young, NSW. His grandfather bought the car brand new at Thomson Ford in Parramatta, and it still has the dealer sticker on the back window. Handed from father to son and now grandson, it runs a 302ci V8/ column auto, with less than 140,000km on the clock. With some police-type ‘whirlygigs’ made from dog food tins and fruit cup lids stuck to a roof rack, it was a fun ROE tribute car at Cobar. Thankfully the wheels didn’t fall off like in the movie!

~2~ Elite car builder Greg Maskell brought his big-block powered, stick-shift-equipped ’67 Falcon coupe out to Cobar with twins Nash and Arlen along for the ride. “It was a six-cylinder,” explains the Maskell’s Customs & Classics boss. ”But now it’s a 427 sideoiler with tunnel-port heads!” Back at home in Shepparton, the cool coupe is a daily driver, but to cover the ground to Cobar without running out of juice, it was trailered. “It’s the first time I’ve done that!” says a happy Greg