FRANK EXCHANGE

THE XW Falcon of Dandy Engines’ Frank Marchese has a serious claim to the title of Australia’s quickest street car, having run a PB of 6.96@211mph and taken out the 2018 Street Machine Drag Challenge, the hardest-won prize in street car racing. Amazingly, Frank’s 3800lb X-Dub runs these numbers on leaf springs and a 275 radial, with a twin-turbo small-block Ford under the bonnet making over 2800hp at the hubs.

Away from DC, Dandy Engines is the Aussie distributor for Pro Line engines and FuelTech ECUs, so Frank has had his hand in some of Australia’s hottest sleds to hit the quarter-mile, including Steve Bezzina’s six-second, 220mph XW sedan, and the 2500rwhp twin-turbo 632ci Chev in Daniel Szabolics’s HQ Monaro.

With so much power at his