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    HOMEBUILT HOME RUN

    Oct 28, 2019 4 minutes

    BACK in 1974 through to 1979 anyone who used to frequent Champion Dragway will remember Errol McLachlan running a smallblock Ford-powered T-bucket painted the same colour as his good friend Roger Murray’s similar bucket. They carried the names “Stinger” and “Hustler”. The pair attended practically every meeting and became very well known in the street rod class. After selling “Stinger” in ‘79 Errol built an even more popular race rod which was a 1930 Model A pickup which was powered by another smallblock Ford which could be described as a screamer as in “screaming smallblock ford”. It was a real crowd pleaser and would pull the wheels with ease. He ran the pickup from

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